This book offers an approach which recognises - and embraces - the messy complexities of co-creation. The approach is constructive - it revolves around creating openings for multiple voices; and, in particular, the voices of people with lived experience.

Louise Phillips is Professor of Communication, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University

Chapter 1: Offering a dialogic approach to conceptualizing co-creation. Chapter 2: Mapping the contested terrain of co-creation in participatory research and qualitative inquiry Chapter 3: Thinking with IFADIA - an overview. Chapter 4: Tracing the relational enactment of "co-creation": the Parkinson's Dance Research Project. Chapter 5: Working with the tension in co-creation between cultivating the creative process and producing specific results. Chapter 6: Conceptualising tensional temporalities and mutual care in co-creation. Chapter 7: A collaborative autoethnographic inquiry into "co-creation" from participants' perspectives. Chapter 8: Fostering embodied experiential knowing in dialogic research communication. Chapter 9: Epilogue.