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Tales of the Field: Vila Feliz Cidade by Carlos Mendes Gonçalves
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
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Human-centered design and systems thinking for social impact and community engagement.
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/
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Social Innovator in Residence: Engin Ayaz
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/
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Radical participatory design
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
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Social Workers Who Design: trauma-responsive design and design of care
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
The Design Thinking Roundtable is a collaboration between the DESIS Lab and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation at NOVA SBE with the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace. Originally conceived by Harshita Nedunuri and Anne-Laure Fayard, then co-created with Priyanka Vora. Since Fall 20219, it is conceived and produced by AL Fayard. Audio production and sound design (in various episodes): Guilhem Tamisier; Blake Rook; John Klima; Claudio Silva. Covert Art: Guilhem Tamisier
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