Inclusive Innovation

‘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.

March 15, 2018

‘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.

March 13, 2018

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.

March 13, 2018

‘We Want Cities To Be More Inclusive, But We Want the Process of Innovation Also To Be More Inclusive.’

This interview with Eduardo Staszowski, Co-founder and Director, Parsons DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Lab, The New School, is the twelfth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

March 1, 2018

‘Tools Are Only Going To Be as Inclusive as the People Who Were Involved in Designing Them Want Them To Be, and as Their Users Demand that They Be.’

This interview with Hannah Calhoon, Founding Director of Blue Ridge Labs@Robin Hood, is the eleventh in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

February 27, 2018

‘Data and Technology Won’t Improve Public Participation and Increase Inclusion and Promote Equity Unless It’s Guided by a Set of Community-Driven Values.’

This interview with Catherine Geanuracos, CEO of CityGrows, is the tenth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

February 22, 2018

‘It Goes Back to Time and Resources and Effectively Leveraging All of Our Resources and Relationships.’

This interview with Lisa Hagerman, Director of Programs at DBL Partners, is the ninth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

February 20, 2018

‘The Tool Is a Secondary Question. It Comes Back to Values.’

This interview with Demond Drummer, Co-founder of CoderSpace, is the eighth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

February 15, 2018

Tools Are Expressions of Values

The second group of interviews for our Listening to Inclusive Innovators series talks about tools.  Months before skepticism about technology moved into the mainstream, the participants in our innovation and inclusion working group were very clear that tools are not neutral, but rather an extension of values, in how they are used and even how they are built.

February 15, 2018

‘My Values are Foundational.’

This interview with writer and speaker Mia Birdsong is the seventh in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

February 13, 2018