Design Thinking Roundtable

Meena is a social innovation consultant and design strategist tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement dedicated to tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement. With a background in social anthropology and design, she has worked across diverse settings, from urban slums to corporate boardrooms. Previously, Meena spent eight years at IDEO, where she led community engagement for OpenIDEO and advised IDEO U's initiatives. Her expertise lies in fostering collaboration, equity, and innovation to drive meaningful change. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand with Indian ancestry, she brings a global perspective to her work in social impact.Meena was the Spring Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.Follow Meena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meanestindian/?originalSubdomain=nzand on Subtack: https://randomspecific.substack.com/Credits:Host: Anne-Laure FayardPost-production: Claudio SilvaMusic & Art Work: Guilhem TamisierRecorded at the Fidelidade Creative Studio, Nova SBE

Adriana Valdez Young is a design researcher with more than 15 years of leading design research that focuses on centering the experiences of historically excluded and underrepresented people for startups, government, non-profits, and corporate clients. . She advises inclusive research at SOUR, a global design studio with the mission to address social and urban problems, servers as associate chair of the MFA of Interaction design at the School of Visual Arts, and writes about inclusive design for UX Magazine. Prior to that she led research and strategy at Stae, a platform for cities to manage civic data and new mobilities. She was the head of consumer research at littleBits, a STEAM platform for kids and educators to invent their own technology. And most recently, shecrafted community experiences at 3X3 and shaped communications, business development, and the urban design practice at Openbox. Adriana holds a BA in History from Brown University and an MSc in City Design and Social Science fromthe London School of Economics.In this episode, Adriana reflects on her journey as "an accidental designer" - breaking and entering design. She talks about how her early passion for understanding context, her curiosity and her un-satisfaction with the status quo led her to design for social change. She reflects on co-creation and inclusive design, reminding us that all design should be inclusive.To learn more about Adriana's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valdezyoung/and check her website:  https://www.welikeresearch.com/You can also read her reflections on Medium: https://adrianavyoung.medium.com/Credits:Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure FayardSound design & Post-production: Claudio SilvaMusic & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they  tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people's lives. In this episode, we talked with Carlos Mendes Gonçalves, the founder and CEO of Case Mendes Gonçalves, a family business in Portugal. Casa Mendes Gonçalves' commitment to sustainability inspires the company's effort to transform the food system and create a model for a new way to work and live together within our communities and nature. Carlos tells us about Vila Feliz Cidade, a regenerative agriculture project that aims to integrate the economic dimension with social and environmental responsibility.  To read more about sustainability at Casa MG and about Vila Feliz Cidade: https://www.casamg.pt/en/sustainability/ Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard Interview in Portuguese by Rita Nascimento Quotes in English read by Claudio Silva Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard

Robert Fabricant is Co-Founder of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and systems thinking to clients looking for creative approaches to breakthrough innovation and expanded collaborations in social impact and community engagement. He leads an extremely diverse team with studios in Dakar, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi and New York, leveraging Dalberg's global footprint and capabilities. Much of his portfolio is focused on public health, serving as the lead design partner to USAID's Global Health Bureau. A born and raised New Yorker, Robert began his career at a local criminal justice non-profit focused on New York State court reform where he worked at both a grassroots and policy level to drive positive change in the lives of New Yorkers. In this episode, Robert reflects on his journey from his work in criminal justice advocacy to becoming a systems designer  with a focus on public health systems and social innovation. He talks about the importance of collaboration and taking a long-term horizon to make positive social change. As he critically reflects on his practice, he stresses the importance of thinking about power dynamics when doing design work with under-resourced communities in the USA and in the Global South. To learn more about Robert's work, follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertfabricant/ and check his website:  https://www.fabricant.design/ To learn more about Dalberg Design: https://www.dalbergdesign.com/

Engin Ayaz, a transdisciplinary designer and strategist with a background in architecture, systems thinking, and interaction design. He is the co-founder of ATÖLYE, a design and innovation consultancy, which amplifies the impact of purpose-driven leaders by transforming people, places and experiences through the power of communities. Engin received a dual degree in Architectural Design and Engineering from Stanford University, and a master's degree in Interactive Design and Media Arts from Tisch School of Arts, ITP of New York University. His work has been exhibited worldwide and received awards from Core77, Architizer, Arkitera, World Architecture Community, and Good Magazine, among others. Engin was the Fall 2024 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Engin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enginayaz/ Learn more about Atölye: https://atolye.io/

Victor Udoewa is Service Design Lead  for the CDC (centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Prior to this role, Victor was Chief Technology Officer, Chief experience Officer and Service Design Lead at NASA. Prior to NASA, Victor served as the Director of Strategy at 18F, a civic consultancy for the federal government inside the federal government. Previously, as a Global Education Instructional Designer and Training Development Specialist at Google, he designed learning experiences and learning software for people in low-to-middle-income countries around the world. In this episode, Victor shared with us his "non-linear" journey to being a service designer: from being a teacher to working with USAID and then Google and NASA while being a health crisis and trauma counsellor. He shares the different definitions of service design and contrasts them with his perspective and practice in the public sector. He then explains why he talks about radical participatory design (rather than participatory design) and introduces us to relational design and pluriversal design. To learn more about Victor's work, follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/ You can also read some of his academic papers: Introduction to Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes  Radical Participatory Design: The Awareness of Participation Relational Design  Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Rachael Dietkus is a social worker-designer. Her practice, research, and writing at the intersections of social work values, trauma-responsive principles, and care-focused design research methods. Rachael is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and an active member of the Design Justice Network and the Social Work Futures Lab. Since September 2022, she has served as a Digital Services Expert in Design and Social Work and a Trauma-Informed Practice Subject Matter Expert with the United States Digital Service, a design and tech unit under the White House.  In this episode, Rachael reflects on the different civic and public interest roles she has had over the last twenty years to explore how social work and design are intrinsically connected in her practice. She explains how she encountered trauma-informed design and more recently trauma-responsive design. She stresses the importance of language, of care, of intentionality and relationality. To learn more about Rachael's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaeldietkuslcsw/ and check the Social Workers Who Design website: ⁠https://www.socialworkerswho.design⁠ To learn more about the topics we discussed: 'Trauma-Informed Care: A Sociocultural Perspective' / ⁠⁠https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207195/⁠⁠ Social Work Futures Lab / ⁠⁠https://www.socialworkfutureslab.org⁠⁠ Racism Untaught / ⁠https://racismuntaught.com⁠ Some of the references Rachael's made in the podcast: Desmond Patton's / 'Applying Reflexivity to Artificial Intelligence for Researching Marginalized Communities and Real-World Problems' / ⁠https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/7607e8e6-db3b-45c6-87c5-516e8e67ba08/full⁠ Resmaa Menakem / ⁠https://resmaa.com⁠ + ⁠https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence⁠ Karen Treisman's 'Trauma River' / ⁠https://media.churchillfellowship.org/documents/Treisman_K_Report_2018_Final.pdf⁠ AJ Singh's 'Justice Sensitivity is the Cure, Not the Sickness' / ⁠https://ajs4dlg.substack.com/p/justice-sensitivity-is-the-cure-not⁠ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

João Brites is an entrepreneur, breakdancer, and agroforester who has lived in Portugal, Mexico, United States, Brazil and Spain (his current home). Currently, João is Director of Growth & Innovation at HowGood, a SaaS platform that helps companies measure, improve, and communicate their social and environmental impact. Prior to HowGood, João worked as Global Director of Sustainable Development at AB InBev and co-founded initiatives like Movimento Transformers, the Amazon Summer School, and Carbono Biodiverso. João is the recipient of Nova's Impactful Alumni Award, the Do Something Ambassador Award, and was at age 19 one of the world's youngest participants at the WEF in Davos through the Global Changemakers Program. João holds a M.S. in Economics and a CEMS Masters in International Management from Nova SBE João was the Spring 2024 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow João on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrbrites/ Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE

Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they  tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people's lives. In this episode, we talked with Gilbert Nkpeniyeng, who after working as a program officer with Amplio Network, is currently doing his MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge University (UK). Gilbert passionately believes that access to knowledge can change people's lives. He shares his personal experience with the Amplio Talking Book, an audio device designed for users with low literacy, he encountered while in primary school. He also tells about a project he implemented with women producing shea butter in Northern Ghana highlighting how all community members were involved. To read more about Amplio Network: https://www.amplio.org/ Follow Gilbert Nkpeniyeng: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-nkpeniyeng-1648a017a/ Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard Recording done at Fidelidade Creative Studio at Nova SBE Thanks to Amplio Network Ghana team for sharing some of the audio sources used for the sound design of this episode.

Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they  tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people's lives. In this episode, we talked with Leslie Davol, co-founder and executive director of Street Lab, a nonprofit that creates and shares programs for public space across New York City, and with Hannah Berkin-Harper, Street Lab's design lead. We talked about the pop-ups they create to improve the urban environment, connect New Yorkers and create communities. They highlighted the value of developing quick and nimble ways to provide resources to residents and develop a street-level environment that can evolve while also testing ideas for longer term changes. To read more about Street Lab: https://www.streetlab.org/ Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard

Tanya Bhandari is a communication designer from India who has been working in the social impact space for over a decade. Currently she is the Design Director at ⁠YLabs⁠ in Kigali, Rwanda. She was previously Design Lead at ⁠UNICEF's Office of Innovation⁠ (New York), Design Fellow at ⁠Center for Urban Pedagogy⁠ (New York), and Designer at ⁠Teach for India⁠ (Mumbai.) In this episode, reflecting on the projects she has been involved, Tanya stressed the power of co-design, where young people lead the process and participate from beginning to end. Tanya talked about prototyping as a form of research and how to prototype in resource-constrained environments. As we discussed how her work involved complex collaborations, she stressed the importance of always having part of the team embedded in the local context. Last, Tanya suggested that design for social impact required designers to step back from a position of expertise, to become sense makers and facilitators. To learn more about Tanya's work, check her website: https://tanyabhandari.in/about Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyabhndri/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Liz Gerber is a professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwestern's Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America, a national award-winning network of interdisciplinary students who work together to solve problems they care about in their community. Liz works at the works at the intersection of design, social computing, and organizational behavior to understand the future of collaboration and in particular. for social impact. Gerber co-directs the Delta Lab whose mission is to create technology-based systems to enhance learning, collaboration, and performance. Gerber has received awards for her research and teaching from the National Science Foundation, MacArthur, Mozilla Foundations, Microsoft and Smithsonian. Liz was the Fall 2023 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Liz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizgerber/ and Twitter: elizgerber To learn more about Liz's work: lizgerber.com  To learn more about Design for America: designforamerica.com  Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE

Sara Camnasio is a multi-disciplinary designer and researcher focused on government (public services), science, and climate projects. Her work spans from integrating design mindsets into environmental and conservation projects, creating educational curricula to engage students on STEAM topics, to helping improve public and private services and products.  After spending 5 years conducting Astrophysics research at the American Museum of Natural History and at telescopes around the world for 5 years, Sara decided to dive into design to apply design thinking methods to science and conservation projects. She's been a National Geographic Explorer since 2015, and through this community, she has led and co-led several international projects focused on conservation and environmental education. Currently, she is helping grow Human-centered design and co-design practices at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the US Federal Government. She also runs the Sonoma County Feminist Bird Club – a growing community of friendly bird nerds who care about the outdoors and social justice. In this episode, Sara explains how she combines in her work service design with participatory approaches to help people engage more deeply and more consciously with the world around them. She stresses how design shapes all our interactions – with objects, technology, humans, and nature, and therefore has a role to play in addressing issues we are facing like climate change. We discussed how design can help translate complexity and identify and frame what problem to solve, and the role of the designer as a facilitator and storyteller. Sara emphasizes the need for designers to think of unintended consequences and be reflexive about their practice; design being in the end a deeply political practice. To learn more about Sara's work, check her website: https://www.saracamnasio.com/ Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saracamnasio/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Isaac is the founder of Mideva Labs - a research, design and innovation consultancy studio based in Nairobi Kenya, and a co-founder of Idea Studio Africa - a community-powered learning, skills development and apprenticeship studio helping young professionals build meaningful career pathways in innovation and entrepreneurship. Isaac previously co-founded the Africa YES Program - a 6-month leadership and entrepreneurship accelerator program for young social entrepreneurs in Kenya, which has supported over 80 entrepreneurs to launch social ventures since 2019. Isaac has over 8 years of experience working in the design, social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa and supporting initiatives around the world, including working for openIDEO - IDEO's open innovation platform that supported innovators across the globe to solve some of the biggest world's challenges. Isaac has a passion for designing with and working with communities and young people to achieve impact and is interested in exploring ways to rethink learning and in investment in young people and their ideas for a better future. Isaac was the Spring 2023 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Isaac on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacjumba/ Twitter: @Isaacjumba  Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE  

Harmonie Coleman is a Senior Community Engagement Manager at IDEO.org. In this role, she collaborates closely with design teams, partners, and local community members to advance equitable practices in design research and community co-design methods across the organization. She specializes in designing transformative experiences, healing-centered facilitation, participatory design methods, and recruiting community members with lived experience. Her past experiences as a teacher and community organizer both deepen her expertise and ground her current work and interests. Harmonie has a Master of Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Psychology and Race and Difference Studies from Emory University. In this episode, Harmonie shared her views on community and intentional relationship building, and stressed the need to move from transactive interactions to intentional relationship. She illustrated the value of intentional relationship building by sharing two projects she worked on with families and youth who have been impacted by the child welfare system. She discussed how the distinctions between participatory design, community design and co-design were not necessarily generative. Instead, she invites us to focus on the "how" and practice, rather than the labels. Last, we discussed adrienne maree brown's work and how the notion of emergent strategy informs Harmonie's work. I asked Harmonie to share some recommended readings: Thick, Tressie McMillan CottomThe Art of Gathering, Priya ParkerEmergent Strategy, adrienne maree brownHow We Show Up, Mia BirdsongHolding Change, adrienne maree brownAbolishing the Cop in Your [Designer's] Head, Sarah Fathallah and A.D. Sean Lewis https://designmuseumfoundation.org/abolish-the-cop-inside-your-designers-head/ Read Harmonie's essay "On Community": https://www.ideo.org/perspective/on-community-harmonie-coleman Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmonie-coleman-a42b25155/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Ezio Manzini is one of the world's leading and provocative thinkers in design for sustainability and social innovation — considered a major driver of sustainable changes. These two joint interests led him to start DESIS: an international network of schools of design specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability. Currently, Ezio is President of DESIS Network and Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been guest professor in several design schools world-wide such as Elisava-Design School and Engineering (Barcelona), Tongji University (Shanghai), University of the Arts (London), CPUT (Cape town), and Parsons - The new School for Design (NYC). Ezio has written many books and papers on service design and social innovation. His most recent books are: 'Design, When Everybody Designs', 'Politics of the Everyday' and lately 'Livable Proximity'. In this episode, Ezio invites us to reimagine the role of design in building a sustainable and resilient world. In particular, he talks about how our contemporary society has become a “careless society” and how design can help create conditions that afford care and nurture relations. He highlights the complex relation between care and proximity and based on his most recent book, discusses the notion of livable proximity and how a city that cares look like. Finally, he discusses the notion of social innovation, and stresses that if there is value in emergent, bottom-up social innovation, we need to nurture them and that this requires a new type of social infrastructure. To learn more about DESIS: https://www.desisnetwork.org/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

Bon Ku is an emergency physician, professor and host of the Design Lab podcast. He is the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and leads the Medicine+Design initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University. As the Director of the Health Design Lab, he created the first design thinking program at a medical school. Bon is creating design-minded solutions to improve patient health. Bon co-wrote the book, Health Design Thinking, with Ellen Lupton and was a regular panelist on the primetime medical TV show Chasing the Cure with Ann Curry. In this episode, Bon talks about the role of design and prototyping in the development of products and services for better health care. He discusses medical education and design and explains how the Health Design Lab empowers future doctors to redesign healthcare services, physical spaces and medical devices. Bon stresses the need for more creativity in medical education and medicine. We also talk about collaboration and co-creation and how essential it is to design a better health system. To learn more about Bon's work: https://linktr.ee/bonku Listen to his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/design-lab-with-bon-ku/id1529983261 Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbonku/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, our guest was Laetitia Wolff, a creative strategist, design curator, published author, and self-described cultural engineer and the former director of strategic initiatives at AIGA in NY. Laetitia lives, works and teaches in the South of France following 20+ years spent in New York. She consults and creates projects that generate new discourses, meaningful practices and experiences using design as a tool for social change, impact, and innovation. She brings design to cities, through research-action projects, curated programs, and citizen engagement initiatives. She teaches at Besign, The Sustainable Design School, design impact and partnership-based courses to imagine the creative strategies for tomorrow's territories. In our conversation, Laetitia shared her perspective about design as a tool for social change, impact and innovation and how her design work focused on cities understood as an intertwinement of spatial, social and relational dimensions. She stressed the importance of multi-disciplinary approaches and of multi-stakeholder engagement. Laetitia shared her passion for amplifying the voices of individuals and communities who are unheard. Last, all her projects illustrated the value of learning by doing. To learn more about Laetitia's work: https://www.laetitiawolff.design/ Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laetitia-wolff-31a6193/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

Karine Sarkissian is a founding partner at Tamar Capital (2016), a single-family office based between the Middle East, the UK, and the US. She oversees the FO's Impact and Venture portfolio. Designer and Design Strategist by background, Karine has extensive experience in social innovation for urban and economic development initiatives within New York City and Internationally. Leveraging her expertise, she co-founded Le Studio as part of Tamar Capital to actively support portfolio companies and investors alike through design, impact measurement, and strategy development. Since inception 2 years ago, Le Studio has supported more than 50 aspiring entrepreneurs across 4 continents. Karine also co-created and co-facilitated the Open IDEO NYC Chapter, served as a Design for America mentor to graduate students within New York University, as well as a Hult Prize accelerator mentor. She often freelances as a graphic designer and illustrator, and spends most of her time outside or in the ocean. Karine was the Fall 2022 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Karine on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinesarkissian/ and Twitter: @karinesark Learn more about her work at Tamar Capital: https://tamar.capital/ and Le Studio https://lestudio.io/  Discover her portfolio: http://karinesarkissian.com Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE

Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people's lives. In this episode, we talked with Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force (GCF) and an advocate for economic justice for young people of color. She led GCF's development team from July 2014 to September 2020 when she became GCF's Executive Director. She is a board member of The Corps Network focused on national service, and Environmental Advocates of NY focused on environmental justice. Prior to joining GCF, Tonya served in public-private partnerships at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) Career Program. Tonya is a member of The New York Women's Foundation Circle of Sisters for Social Change, a graduate of Wesleyan University, and a native Brooklynite. She is an associate producer of the 2006 documentary The Perfect Life featuring young adults from Harlem. Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard Co-conception and Production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard

In this episode, I talked with Joana Casaca Lemos, a design researcher passionate about sustainability innovation. Joana runs an independent practice where she supports organisations in ensuring that sustainability is at the forefront of business. She is currently launching Unusual Research - the first global collective of creatives with sustainability expertise. Joana shared with me her view on design for sustainability and related terms like planet-centered design and circular design. The organizations Joana works with are increasingly interested in getting help in making their products and services more sustainable and how this also involves an internal cultural transformation. She emphasized the complexity of the term sustainability and invites us to always make sure to ask for sustainability for what purpose and for whom. Last, she talked about the "qualities" of social businesses and the role they can play in design. Follow Joana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanacasacalemos/?originalSubdomain=pt And on her website: http://www.joanacasacalemos.com/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people's lives. In this episode, we talked with Pushpa Joshi, a young Nepalese social activist, passionate about the issues of gender and sexuality, as well as sexual and reproductive health rights. At the age of 15, Pushpa joined a local youth club focusing on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in her hometown of Bakhtapur. In 2019, she co-founded YoSHAN (Youth-led Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Advocacy Nepal). Recently she also directed Lalita, a short film about sex workers, for which she received multiple awards. You can view Lalita here: https://youtu.be/zPfiAp4ZVwk Co-conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Voice and co-conception: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard

Lisbeth Shepherd is Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT's designX and Visiting Lecturer at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Her work focuses on how "climate corps" in cities can promote environmental and economic justice.  Shepherd co-founded the Green City Force (GCF) in 2009 to address the dual imperatives of youth unemployment and climate change.She previously coordinated the Clean Energy Corps working group at Green for All, and co-founded Unis-Cité, the leading national youth service program in France. She is an Echoing Green alum, Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, Audubon “Woman Greening the City,” and White House Youth Jobs+ Champion of Change. Lisbeth's interests center on "climate corps" the organized efforts of young adults, in particular those in frontline communities most affected by climate change and unemployment, that provide a platform for service, training and leadership for young people on a path to engaging careers in the green economy." Lisbeth was the Spring 2022 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Lisbeth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisbeth-shepherd-ab53555/ and Twitter: @LFShepherd Read about Green City Force: https://greencityforce.org/ and Uni-Cité: https://www.uniscite.fr/ Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, I talked with Ayah Younis, a human centered-designer for social change. With 10-year experience in education in museums, she employs innovative tools and play methods to design learning experiences for children and adults. Ayah shared with me her work using human-centered design to create meaningful experiences in museums as well as in the health centers in Jordan and the region. She emphasized the power of play in reducing boundaries and creating a safe environment. Ayah also highlighted the value of iteration and rapid prototyping in helping create impactful solutions reminding us that human-centered design is a mindset that we need to fully embrace. Last, she invited designers working in international development like her to build relationships and dialogue with all stakeholders. Read Trajectories of international development, a roundtable to which Aya participated with Sarah Fathallah and Robert Fabricant It was reproduced in an edited volume Design for social innovation case studies from around the world (2022), eds. by M. Amatullo, B. Boyer, J. May and A. Shea): https://www.routledge.com/Design-for-Social-Innovation-Case-Studies-from-Around-the-World/Amatullo-Boyer-May-Shea/p/book/9780367898427 Follow Ayah on LinkedIn: And on her website: https://ayahyounis.com/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Blake Rook Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, I talked with Megan Marini, co-founder and Principal, Director of Strategy and Outreach of 3X3, an inclusive and participatory innovation studio designing for systemic change, based in New York City and New Delhi. Over the past decade, they have been bringing communities, the public sector, and private entities together as allies to create social transformation and impact. Megan is a designer, architect and strategist passionate about community-centered design and designing for justice and systemic change. She shared her work helping civic organizations in various parts of the world to listen to, learn from, and collaborate with their stakeholders to design and pilot innovative programs, services, and initiatives that unlock social value. Megan emphasized the need to be thoughtful about the unintended consequences of design, even participatory design. She stressed the need to explore ways to enact inclusion and power sharing in design practices. Megan shared with me the main components of the 3X 3 Toolkit for community-centered design and how it can help facilitate more inclusive and just design practices. Read about 3X3 Community-centered design toolkit here: https://3x3.co/toolkit/overview/ Follow Megan Marini on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-marini-79255914/ And on 3X3 website: https://3x3.co Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Blake Rook Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, I talked with Eric Ho, co-founder and Director of Architecture Commons based in Hong Kong, a design agency for urban innovation. Eric is an architect, entrepreneur, and urban thinker passionate about architecture and urban environments that have a lasting impact on society. He described civic design projects he led in New York and in Hong Kong. Eric emphasized the value of cross-sector collaboration (citizens, businesses, institutions and governments) for social innovation while highlighting associated challenges and suggesting that design thinking can be a language to support collaboration. Last, Eric reflected on the challenges to move from design thinking to design doing and social impact. Follow Eric Ho on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/architectericho/ and on The Commons' website: https://www.acommons.com/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: John Klima Music: Blake Rook Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, I talked with Javiera Arenas, a design strategist and service designer, from Chile, working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. Javi reflected on her practice in designing holistic healthcare experiences. She highlighted the need to take a system view and engage all stakeholders in the process. While acknowledging the difficulties inherent to designing holistic experiences, she also provided great stories on how to use participatory design to co-create spaces that support those who are experiencing a difficult time. Follow Javi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiera-arenas/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: John Klima Music: Blake Rook Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

In this episode, I talked with Ben Reason, founding partner of pioneering service design studio Livework, created in London in 2001. Ben and I discussed Ben's article “Designing in the Anthropocene”. Ben reflected on his journey from his early interest in triple bottom line and his current interest in sustainability. He discussed the tensions between theory and practice. He also shared his thoughts on the role of designers as facilitators and the importance of multi-stakeholders collaborations to address complex problems like climate change. Follow Ben on Twitter @breasy and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breasy/ Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: John Klima Music: Blake Rook Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Rinat Sherzer, Founder of Of Course Global (https://www.ofcourseglobal.com/) To watch her TED Talk: The Bloody Taboo With The Power To Change The World: https://www.ted.com/talks/rinat_sherzer_the_bloody_taboo_with_the_power_to_change_the_world Or read about her project "What Would the Egg Do?": https://www.wwted.com/ Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, I talked with Clare Brass, a London-based designer and innovator for business, with a focus on sustainability and circular economy. Clare is the Director of Department 22, which offers consultancy and training in design, innovation and circular economy with a focus on food systems. Clare shared her views on the importance of values in design as well as how to design sustainability and with a circular mindset. She reflected on the new role of designers when they move away from designing "stuff". Follow her on Twitter @clarebrass and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-brass-851771/?originalSubdomain=uk Check also: http://www.department22.uk Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Adekunle Oduye, Senior Engineer at Mailchimp. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Hannah Chung, Co-founder of Sproutel and Design for America (DFA). Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, we talked with Jess Majekodunmi, an accomplished design historian, an experienced facilitator and an occasional poet, currently the Director of the Human Insights Lab at The Dock, Accenture's Flagship R&D and Innovation Center, based in Dublin, Ireland. Jess shared with us her views on conscientious innovation, in particular when designing AI systems. She stressed the importance of designing for unintended consequences, and how history allows us to understand the present and imagine the future in order to to create meaningful and sustainable solutions Follow her on Twitter @MajekJess and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessmajekodunmi/ Some of the resources Jess shared about AI: https://ethicalos.org https://ethicalstack.virteuproject.eu https://doteveryone.org.uk Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

In this episode, Mayo Nissen, a a New York-based creative director, currently Design Lab Director at the New York City Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talked about his work at the intersections and interplay between research, systems thinking, and human-centered design. He shares with us his approach to human-centered design and how a systems thinking lens allows us to zoom in and out to create meaningful and sustainable solutions. To learn more about Mayo's work: http://www.mayonissen.com Follow him on Twitter @mayonissen Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Jeremy Joachim, Creative Technologist on Gensler's Digital Experience Design team. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Umi Syam, Multimedia Editor at The New York Times. You can see her work on http://umi.codes/ Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, Lee-Sean Huang, a designer and storyteller, cofounder of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy, tells us about storytelling and its role in the design process, and shares with us his perspective on the intersection between design and democracy. To learn more about Lee-Sean's work, check his website: https://leesean.net/ , Foossa's website: https://foossa.com/ and follow her on Twitter.com/leesean Make sure to listen to Design Futures Now, the podcast he runs for AIGA, the professional association for design: https://anchor.fm/designfuturenow To learn more about two projects mentioned on the podcast: A talk about the Kigali Genocide Memorial project: https://vimeo.com/143880913 The video created for the Future of Financial Counseling: http://dfe.nyc/financial-counseling-video Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Managing Director of Product and Experience at Unreasonable Group. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, Sarah Fathallah, a Moroccan social designer and researcher, talks about her work at the intersection of human-centered design, community-centered design and participatory design. She shares with us her approach to design research and illustrates it with stories that show the value of design research in creating meaningful solutions. To learn more about Sarah's work, check her website: https://sarahfathallah.com, read her writing on Medium: https://medium.com/@sfath and follow her on Twitter.com/SFath Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

In this episode, Tim Reitzes from NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity and Daniel Herrera from the Administration of Children's Services tell our host, Priyanka Vora, how their offices collaborated to use the principles of human-centered design to make ACS' services more user-friendly. Here's who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show: Tim Reitzes, Design Lead, NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity Daniel Herrera, Advisor, Division of Prevention Services at the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) in New York City. ********* Credits: Production, host: Priyanka Vora; Conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook *********

In the second episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with experts at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Lab at OPM (The United States Office of Personnel Management) who applied human-centered design to better understand Veterans' perspectives on how to prevent suicide as they transition out of military service. Here's who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show: Commander Shannon (‘Kinzie) Lee, Lead for Strategic Partnerships at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's Office of Policy and Partnerships. Leah Chan, Public Health Advisor on the Strategic Partnerships Team in the Office of Policy and Partnerships at CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Ben Winter, Service designer and strategist at the Lab at OPM (The United States Office of Personnel Management) If you are having thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free. You can find a list of international resources at speakingofsuicide.com/resources ********* Credits: Production, host: Priyanka Vora; Conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook ********* Acknowledgment: Thank you to our sponsor, NYU Tandon's Department of Technology Management and Innovation.

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Alonso Castro, Senior Experience Designer at Verizon. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Jocelyn Miller, Founder and CEO of JM Coaching and Training. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou Thank you to our sponsor, the Department of Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon. To learn more about the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace visit makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/designlab/ and follow us at twitter.com/NYUMakerSpace.

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Jeff Kessler, Senior Design Lead at IDEO. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; Logo design: Florentina Sergiou Thank you to our sponsor, the Department of Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon. To learn more about the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace visit http://makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/designlab/ and follow us at http://twitter.com/NYUMakerSpace.

Design Thinking Roundtable returns with its third season —Designing for the Public to investigate the meaning of Human-Centered Design in the public sector. Public sector fundamentally pertains to and involves people: Without people, the “public” does not exist, nor does the government. We discuss, debate and question the past, present and future of design thinking in the public sector. In the first episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with design experts working with and in the government to discuss why human-centered design matters for developing and implementing policies that create positive social impact. Here's who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show: Arianne Miller, Managing Director of the Lab at OPM (Office of Personnel Management) Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer. Design Council, an independent charity that advises the UK government on design. Mari Nakano, Design Director, Service Design Studio at the New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity Jocelyn Bailey, Strategic and social design practitioner, critic and researcher based in London. ********* Credits: Production, host: Priyanka Vora; Conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; Sound design, music & post-production: Guilhem Tamisier. ********* To learn more about the New York University's Design for America, visit www.dfanyu.com and follow us at twitter.com/DFANYU. You can email us at nyu@designforamerica.com and mention the podcast in the subject line. Acknowledgment: Thank you to NYU Tandon's Department of Technology Management and Innovation and Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace for their support. [ https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/departments/technology-management-and-innovation] [http://makerspace.engineering.nyu.edu/designlab/]

For the season finale of the Designing for All Humans series, we sat down with disability advocates to learn why inclusive design has the potential to grow beyond its current conception and practice— towards disability-led design. We explore the following questions: Is inclusive design even a fitting label for this movement? How might disability-led design push the movement forward towards genuine inclusion? The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Liz Jackson [Founder, The Disabled List & Curator, Critical Axis], Shaina Garfield [Design Researcher, Hologic], and Morten Bonde [Senior Art Director, LEGO]. Visit https://www.thegirlwiththepurplecane.com/, https://mortenbonde.dk/en/, and http://www.shainagarfield.com/ to stay up to date on their current work. ********* Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Guilhem Tamisier. To learn more about the NYU chapter of Design for America, visit www.dfanyu.com and follow us at twitter.com/DFANYU.

In the second part of the Designing for All Humans series, we feature two fascinating projects that empower children with disabilities through play: Project Fizzyo and Braille Bricks. The two projects provide insights in how to practice inclusive design. The experts involved in these initiatives highlight the importance of engaging all the stakeholders during the whole design journey: from inspiration to ideation and prototyping. Learn more about Project Fizzyo here: https://fizzyo.github.io/, Tack Tiles here: http://www.tack-tiles.com/, and LEGO Braille Bricks here: https://www.legobraillebricks.com/. The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Haiyan Zhang [Director of Innovation, Microsoft Research Labs], Morten Bonde [Senior Art Director, LEGO], and Stine Storm [New Ventures Manager, LEGO Foundation]. ********* Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Guilhem Tamisier. To learn more about the NYU chapter of Design for America, visit www.dfanyu.com and follow us at twitter.com/DFANYU.

This first episode of the Designing for All Humans series introduces key concepts and vocabulary in inclusive design through conversation with educators at the Ability Project. What is ability? How might designers participate in the destigmatization of disability? What is the difference between inclusive design and accessibility and related concepts? The Ability Project is an interdisciplinary research lab at NYU dedicated to the intersection between disability and human-centered design. Learn more about the Ability Project by visiting http://ability.nyu.edu. The guest speakers featured in this episode are: Allan Goldstein [Senior Lecturer of Disability Studies, NYU Tandon], Marianne Petit [Professor of Digital Media, NYU Tisch & Board Member, Adaptive Design Association], and Anita Perr [Professor of Occupational Therapy, NYU Steinhardt]. ********* Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Guilhem Tamisier. To learn more about the NYU chapter of Design for America, visit www.dfanyu.com and follow us at twitter.com/DFANYU.

Human-centered design plays an important role in the intersection of architecture, sustainability and social impact. In this episode, Sameera Chukkapalli [CEO & Founder, Needlab], talks to us about the process of designing with communities in need and the ideology of "think global, act local". Needlab is a non-profit design research organization with a focus on the built environment. Through projects around the world, Needlab is working to unveil new ways of creating a dialogue between local materials, social customs, cultural heritage, and the environment. Learn more at www.needlab.org. Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design: Tunan Guo; post-production: Jessica Chase.

Do designers have a seat at the table when it comes to solving the wicked problems of the world? If the medium is the message, what does it mean to shift the medium of design towards human behavior? In this episode, Sean Rhodes [Executive Creative Director, Frog], sheds light on these pressing questions + offers advice on how to design responsibly and with purpose. Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design: Tunan Guo; post-production: Jessica Chase.

In recent years, management consultancies have started acquiring design firms and several have been integrating design teams within their consulting practice. McKinsey & Company engages in this phenomenon—their acquisition strategy and the launch of McKinsey Design indicates a major shift in the industry. Alex Kozovski [Senior Designer, McKinsey New Ventures], NYU ITP alumnus, tells us how despite the different epistemic stances management consultants and designers hold when it comes to innovation, their skills are in fact very complementary. In this first episode, Alex covers multiple topics from the importance of embracing ambiguity (what he calls “the discomfort of not knowing") to building empathy for clients ("understanding what keeps our clients awake”) and the importance of prototyping to test assumptions. Credits---conception and production: Harshita Nedunuri; co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design: Tunan Guo; post-production: Jessica Chase.