Inclusive Innovation

‘People Need To Feel That Their Feedback Has Been Heard, That People Are Very Responsive To Their Contributions, That It Matters. That’s Ultimately What It’s About.’

This interview with Karin Brandt, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, coUrbanize, is the twenty-second and final interview in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

April 26, 2018

‘It Would Be Amazing If Residents Met the People Who Are Actually Out On the Streets Implementing Policy.’

This interview with Nick DeMonner and Maggie Henry of Seneca Systems is the twenty-first in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

April 24, 2018

‘Is Your Civic Engagement Process Designed To Increase and Maintain Participation, or Are You Also Able To Provide Some Access to Power?’

This interview with Maria Hadden, Executive Director, Our City Our Voice, is the twentieth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

April 19, 2018

‘Civic Engagement Is Important Because Ultimately It’s the Best Version of Every Single Person in the Community.’

This interview with Josh Carpenter, Director of Innovation and Economic Opportunity, City of Birmingham, is the nineteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

April 17, 2018

‘For Engagement to Really Have an Impact, it Needs To Be an Ongoing Dialogue’

This interview with Grayce Liu, General Manager, Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, City of Los Angeles, is the eighteenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

April 12, 2018

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.

April 10, 2018

‘Civic Engagement Is Relationship Building That Fosters an Ethic of Reciprocity and a Culture of Collaboration.’

This interview with Robin F. Bachin, Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement and the Charlton W.
Tebeau Associate Professor of History, University of Miami is the seventeenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators series.

April 10, 2018

‘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.

March 27, 2018

‘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.

March 22, 2018

‘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.

March 20, 2018