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‘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.

BY Eduardo Staszowski

Blog Post

03.01.2018
Urban Innovation

'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.

BY Hannah Calhoon

Blog Post

02.27.2018
Urban Innovation

'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.

BY Catherine Geanuracos

Blog Post

02.22.2018
Urban Innovation

'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.

BY Lisa Hagerman

Blog Post

02.20.2018
Urban Innovation

'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.

BY Demond Drummer

Blog Post

02.15.2018
Urban Innovation

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.

BY Jennifer Bradley

Blog Post

02.15.2018