Projects from across my careers in media, digital, social innovation & design
Read on to see how each project surfaced new knowledge and shaped my innovation practice.
Agency work
Contracting & consulting with creative technology agencies
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RISD x Infosys
Design sprints for experience designers, technologists & business development leaders
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Havas Health + for Teva Pharmaceuticals
Market activation for new category of medical devices
Social Innovation & Public Sector
Multi-stakeholder partnerships that address a complex opportunity space
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Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety
Participatory design for the built environment in 15 public housing sites in New York City. For the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.
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NYC x Colabs: Brownsville
What if smart city technology was incubated in the economic margins rather than the economic center of a city? For the Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
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Participatory Placemaking for the City of Providence : Broad Street Stories
What do heritage markers look like in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood? What if the neighbors were the ones to answer this question? For Providence Arts, Culture & Tourism.
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Humanities Action Lab: States of Incarceration
How might qualitative data from 20 different research projects be compiled into one interface designed for public use?
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Best of Brownsville Photo Project
How might youth change the way the public describes their stigmatized neighborhood? For the Center for Justice Innovation, Brownsville Community Justice Center.
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Feature Documentary, The Key of G (2007)
Editing & producing, stumbling into design research
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Made In Rockaway
How can design kickstart interaction between food system components in one neighborhood in Queens?
Design Leadership
Workshops and design sprints for a variety of clients and organizations
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Planetary Civics Initiative
Activating a consortium of stakeholders from around the globe to address polycrisis. For the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Politics for Tomorrow, and Dark Matter Labs
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Service Design Methods Card Deck
Facilitating a two day design sprint for people interested in learning service design.
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Motivate Design x Girls In Tech
How can women innovators leverage design to achieve better outcomes for their projects?
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Service Design Global Conference 2015
Programming and hosting a 500+ attendee conference on service design.
Qualitative Research
Design and execution of qualitative data collection, analysis & presentation
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The New School Collaboratory
Discovering what makes civic engagment thrive at The New School, and how it might be developed on other campuses.
Digital Innovation
Products & Platforms
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Interactive Multimedia Graphic Novel for iPad : Operation Ajax
Bringing a new entertainment product to market in a multi-stakeholder startup environment for an untested interactive platform.
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Social Gaming Network now Jam City
First to market mobile gaming company, producing games with outside partners.
Speculative Design
Techniques for creating visions of the future, followed by backcasting to define present action.
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Speculative Service Design with Elliot Montgomery
Speculating future states of service design.
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Local Motive for Ford Motor Company
What hasn’t an automotive company yet considered about the future of mobility?
