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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.

BY Jennifer Bradley

Blog Post

03.13.2018
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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
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'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
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'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
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'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
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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
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'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.

BY Mia Birdsong

Blog Post

02.13.2018
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'The Purpose of Values Is to Make Hard Decisions Easier – Not Easy, But Easier.'

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.

BY Aaron Walker

Blog Post

02.06.2018
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'It Takes Time, It Takes Thought, It Takes Practice.'

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.

BY Lila Guirguis

Blog Post

02.01.2018
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