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Co-creation

Civic Engagement: It’s for the Long Haul

The final set of interviews in our Listening to Inclusive Innovators series addresses civic engagement.  These interviews are powerful on their own, and also serve as great counter-points to the previous set of posts on co-creation.

‘If You’re Affected by Something, You Have the Most Important Voice at the Table When It Comes To Shaping the Solution.’

This interview with Molly Day, Chief Strategy Officer, LIFT, is the sixteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

‘People Need To Participate in the Design of Things That Are Meant for Them.’

This interview with Eric Gordon, Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College; Founding Executive Director, Engagement Lab, is the fifteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

‘It Really Comes Down To Trusting the Fact That the People That You’re Inviting Into the Process Want To Help’

This interview with Ben Berkwoitz, Chief Executive Officer, SeeClickFix, is the fifteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

‘Systems of Inequity Have Been Designed by People, and They Can Be Redesigned.’

This interview with Caroline Hill, Founder, DC Equity Lab; Co-founder, Equity Design Collaborative, is the fourteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

‘The Biggest Challenge Is That There’s No Recipe Book or Playbook for Co-creation.’

This interview with Dennis Whittle, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Feedback Labs, is the thirteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

Co-creation: A Map, Not a Destination

Co-creation, the idea that people experiencing a problem are experts about that problem and should be engaged in creating the solution to that problem, is a brilliant idea. It is also, in my experience, a rare practice in policymaking, service delivery, or implementation. The interviews in this next round of our Listening to Inclusive Innovators series highlight why co-creation is both so important and so uncommon.