Values

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

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This interview with Kia Weatherspoon, President of Determined by Design, is the sixth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

This interview with Aaron Walker, Founder and CEO of Camelback Ventures, is the fifth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.

This interview with Lila Guirguis, Lead, Office of the Young Child, City of Pasadena, is the fourth in the Center for Urban Innovation’s Listening to Inclusive Innovators interview series.