Towards an integration of the cooperative design context in collaborative tools

In a design project, the actors cooperate to achieve a same objective,which can be the production of a document, a manufactured product, a plane or abuilding. The role of a cooperative project management tool is to offer each actornot only a good vision of the project development but also the extent of his actionpotential. The cooperation context of a design project is a relational organizationwhere each actor keeps up specific relations with other people (designers, projectmanagers, etc.) but also with documents and activities. This organization has to berepresented in the project management tool to give each user an adaptive vision ofthe project organization and development. We propose a representation and avisualization of such a context, which characterizes each design project