Victor Udoewa's guest appearances

Victor Udoewa

Service Design Show

Wild Goose

The Combustion Chronicles

Lauren Currie

Marianne Williamson

Robert Lee

Sarah Heath

Barbara Brown Taylor

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Matthew Paul Turner

Doug Powell

Steve Portigal

Gerry Scullion

Peter Merholz

Diana Butler Bass

Jen Hatmaker

Hartmut Esslinger

Michael Gungor

OwlTail

We are deeply rooted in human-centered design. That starts with showing empathy and having a design that is inclusive. As a society we have to learn how to empathize instead of sympathize. Our guest today understands this all too well. Today's special guest is Victor Udoewa, a multi-talented rocket scientist with a personality that is just as impressive as his career bio.In today’s episode, Shawn and Victor discuss how organizations can meet the needs of immigrants and refugees, neurodiversity, the importance of inclusive design, pulling away from mainstream institutional knowledge, and the true meaning of radical relationships.In This Episode: (02:23) – How Victor tells people what he does for a living. (04:38) – Organizations meeting the needs of immigrants and refugees.  (06:26) – Talking about Inclusive design and to empathize and not sympathize. (12:34) – Talking about Shawn’s book Kiss Your Dragons. (19:36) – On being maverick-minded and human-obsessed with larger audiences. (24:49) – Victor gives invaluable advice to the audience. (28:34) – The Combustion Questions. What We Learned from Victor Udoewa Victor directed his design work to community development and national development. We need to use the best trauma responsive design and research practices in working with immigrants and refugees. Public experience is broader than the citizen experience. The best people to help us understand the needs of immigrants and refugees are immigrants and refugees. It’s important for the public sector to learn about inclusive design because we are in a social mission. Experiential knowledge is more important than design knowledge. People can connect based on experiences, values, goals, and future visions. Notable Quotes[05:38] - “In order to create and design a particular solution, you have to be able to name the particular problem.”[11:03] - “If we can be experts in this type of mainstream institutional design knowledge, then other people can be experts in other types of knowledge.”[16:29] - “Ignorance isn’t the absence of knowledge. Ignorance is the absence of relationships.”[26:15] - “Be open and aware of all the different possibilities. And part of that involves making your intentions known.”Our GuestVictor Udoewa is Chief Technology Officer, Chief Experience Officer, and Service Design Lead of the NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) programs. Before joining NASA, he was director of strategy at 18 F, a civic consultancy for and inside the federal government. He also worked as a global education and instructional designer and training development specialist at Google, where he created learning experiences for people in low to middle income countries around the world. He occasionally teaches math and education teachers, conducts medical and engineering research and serves as a certified help crisis and trauma counselor. Resources &amp; LinksVictor UdoewaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/Shawn NasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasonshawn/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manonfiresocial/Twitter: https://twitter.com/manonfiresocialWebsite: https://shawnnason.com/MOFI: https://www.mofi.co/The Combustion Chronicles PodcastWebsite: https://shawnnason.com/combustion-chronicles-episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are deeply rooted in human-centered design. That starts with showing empathy and having a design that is inclusive. As a society we have to learn how to empathize instead of sympathize. Our guest today understands this all too well. Today's special guest is Victor Udoewa, a multi-talented rocket scientist with a personality that is just as impressive as his career bio.In today’s episode, Shawn and Victor discuss how organizations can meet the needs of immigrants and refugees, neurodiversity, the importance of inclusive design, pulling away from mainstream institutional knowledge, and the true meaning of radical relationships. In This Episode:<ul> <li>(02:23) – How Victor tells people what he does for a living.</li> <li>(04:38) – Organizations meeting the needs of immigrants and refugees. </li> <li>(06:26) – Talking about Inclusive design and to empathize and not sympathize.</li> <li>(12:34) – Talking about Shawn’s book Kiss Your Dragons.</li> <li>(19:36) – On being maverick-minded and human-obsessed with larger audiences.</li> <li>(24:49) – Victor gives invaluable advice to the audience.</li> <li>(28:34) – The Combustion Questions.</li> </ul> What We Learned from Victor Udoewa<ul> <li>Victor directed his design work to community development and national development.</li> <li>We need to use the best trauma responsive design and research practices in working with immigrants and refugees.</li> <li>Public experience is broader than the citizen experience.</li> <li>The best people to help us understand the needs of immigrants and refugees are immigrants and refugees.</li> <li>It’s important for the public sector to learn about inclusive design because we are in a social mission.</li> <li>Experiential knowledge is more important than design knowledge.</li> <li>People can connect based on experiences, values, goals, and future visions.</li> </ul> Notable Quotes[05:38] - “In order to create and design a particular solution, you have to be able to name the particular problem.”[11:03] - “If we can be experts in this type of mainstream institutional design knowledge, then other people can be experts in other types of knowledge.”[16:29] - “Ignorance isn’t the absence of knowledge. Ignorance is the absence of relationships.”[26:15] - “Be open and aware of all the different possibilities. And part of that involves making your intentions known.” Our GuestVictor Udoewa is Chief Technology Officer, Chief Experience Officer, and Service Design Lead of the NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) programs. Before joining NASA, he was director of strategy at 18 F, a civic consultancy for and inside the federal government. He also worked as a global education and instructional designer and training development specialist at Google, where he created learning experiences for people in low to middle income countries around the world. He occasionally teaches math and education teachers, conducts medical and engineering research and serves as a certified help crisis and trauma counselor.  Resources &amp; LinksVictor UdoewaLinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/</a> Shawn NasonLinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasonshawn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasonshawn/</a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manonfiresocial/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/manonfiresocial/</a>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/manonfiresocial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/manonfiresocial</a>Website: <a href="https://shawnnason.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shawnnason.com/</a>MOFI: <a href="https://www.mofi.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mofi.co/</a> The Combustion Chronicles PodcastWebsite: <a href="https://shawnnason.com/combustion-chronicles-episodes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://shawnnason.com/combustion-chronicles-episodes/</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Reshaping Lives: The Importance of Radical Participatory Design (with Victor Udoewa)

Who doesn't want this... To come up with smart solutions for relevant challenges that are immediately embraced by the end-users. Well, in this week's episode of the Show, Victor Udoewa shares a radical approach to the design process that increases the chance you'll actually accomplish this. But first, let's quickly look at why solutions don't get adopted. It's often not due to bad intentions. Many times it has to do with the fact that a wrong judgment call has been made about what's important. Because as a design professional, you're -implicitly- imposing your ideas, values, and norms onto the process. You are in a strong position of power, whether you like it or not. The problem is that this leads to solutions derived from a single -often mainstream- worldview.  Again, this isn't something that professionals set out to do. It happens because of the nature of the current design process. So is there something we can do about this? According to Victor, there is! We, starting with the design professional, have to give up power. The community and the users must lead the design process, from start to end, from top to bottom. But can this truly be done, or is it just wishful thinking? And is there still a role for the professional designer when this happens? Victor has a thing or two to say about these and some other key questions. So if you'd also like to work on more meaningful challenges and come to more impactful solutions, click the link below and soak in this inspiring conversation. It's great to get people on the Show who challenge our common design practices like Victor. And to be able to share these stories with you. Enjoy the conversation and keep making a positive impact :) --- [ GUIDE ] --- 00:00 Welcome to episode 154 04:45 Who is Victor 05:30 Lightning round 08:45 The episode take-away 09:45 What is radical participatory design 15:15 Victor's journey 19:15 The benefits 24:00 Barriers to adoption 27:15 The response from the design community 31:45 The role of the design professional 37:45 Where does it start 41:45 The tensions 45:45 What are good challenges  52:45 The evolution 55:45 Taking the first step 1:01:45 A smart hack 1:02:45 What awaits you 1:05:15 Closing thoughts --- [ LINKS ] ---  https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/ Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - https://amzn.to/3yHlYht Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - https://amzn.to/3ObjtcZ Sand Talk - https://amzn.to/3O4Linp Indigenous Research Methodologies - https://amzn.to/3P6NwEh Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities - https://amzn.to/3PcgJxt  --- [ BOOKS ] ---  Designs for the Pluriverse - https://amzn.to/3P7pDMK Stand Your Ground - https://amzn.to/3RvkvDN Fledgling (fiction, Afrofuturism) - https://amzn.to/3AKbsc9 Art of Gathering - https://amzn.to/3IJum4P Black Futures - https://amzn.to/3AWw4Oe Latinx Rising (An anthology) - https://amzn.to/3uLxs2q A Promised Land - https://amzn.to/3PnjDPC His Name Is George Floyd - https://amzn.to/3yGi1cV Soul of a Woman - https://amzn.to/3IBUtdP The Sum of Us - https://amzn.to/3PrGLMV Thinking in Systems - https://amzn.to/3nZoCdN The Bennet Women (fiction) - https://amzn.to/3P908um  --- [ HOW TO EXPLAIN SERVICE DESIGN ] --- Learn what it takes to get your clients, colleagues, managers, CEOs and even grandmas as excited about service design as you are. https://servicedesignshow.com/free-course

Who doesn't want this... To come up with smart solutions for relevant challenges that are immediately embraced by the end-users. Well, in this week's episode of the Show, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Victor Udoewa</a> shares a radical approach to the design process that increases the chance you'll actually accomplish this. But first, let's quickly look at why solutions don't get adopted. It's often not due to bad intentions. Many times it has to do with the fact that a wrong judgment call has been made about what's important. Because as a design professional, you're -implicitly- imposing your ideas, values, and norms onto the process. You are in a strong position of power, whether you like it or not. The problem is that this leads to solutions derived from a single -often mainstream- worldview.  Again, this isn't something that professionals set out to do. It happens because of the nature of the current design process. So is there something we can do about this? According to Victor, there is! We, starting with the design professional, have to give up power. The community and the users must lead the design process, from start to end, from top to bottom. But can this truly be done, or is it just wishful thinking? And is there still a role for the professional designer when this happens? Victor has a thing or two to say about these and some other key questions. So if you'd also like to work on more meaningful challenges and come to more impactful solutions, click the link below and soak in this inspiring conversation. It's great to get people on the Show who challenge our common design practices like Victor. And to be able to share these stories with you. Enjoy the conversation and keep making a positive impact :) --- [ GUIDE ] --- 00:00 Welcome to episode 154 04:45 Who is Victor 05:30 Lightning round 08:45 The episode take-away 09:45 What is radical participatory design 15:15 Victor's journey 19:15 The benefits 24:00 Barriers to adoption 27:15 The response from the design community 31:45 The role of the design professional 37:45 Where does it start 41:45 The tensions 45:45 What are good challenges 52:45 The evolution 55:45 Taking the first step 1:01:45 A smart hack 1:02:45 What awaits you 1:05:15 Closing thoughts --- [ LINKS ] --- <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/</a></li> <li>Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - <a href="https://amzn.to/3yHlYht" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3yHlYht</a></li> <li>Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods - <a href="https://amzn.to/3ObjtcZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3ObjtcZ</a></li> <li>Sand Talk - <a href="https://amzn.to/3O4Linp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3O4Linp</a></li> <li>Indigenous Research Methodologies - <a href="https://amzn.to/3P6NwEh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3P6NwEh</a></li> <li>Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities - <a href="https://amzn.to/3PcgJxt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3PcgJxt</a></li> </ul> --- [ BOOKS ] --- <ul> <li>Designs for the Pluriverse - <a href="https://amzn.to/3P7pDMK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3P7pDMK</a></li> <li>Stand Your Ground - <a href="https://amzn.to/3RvkvDN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3RvkvDN</a></li> <li>Fledgling (fiction, Afrofuturism) - <a href="https://amzn.to/3AKbsc9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3AKbsc9</a></li> <li>Art of Gathering - <a href="https://amzn.to/3IJum4P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3IJum4P</a></li> <li>Black Futures - <a href="https://amzn.to/3AWw4Oe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3AWw4Oe</a></li> <li>Latinx Rising (An anthology) - <a href="https://amzn.to/3uLxs2q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3uLxs2q</a></li> <li>A Promised Land - <a href="https://amzn.to/3PnjDPC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3PnjDPC</a></li> <li>His Name Is George Floyd - <a href="https://amzn.to/3yGi1cV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3yGi1cV</a></li> <li>Soul of a Woman - <a href="https://amzn.to/3IBUtdP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3IBUtdP</a></li> <li>The Sum of Us - <a href="https://amzn.to/3PrGLMV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3PrGLMV</a></li> <li>Thinking in Systems - <a href="https://amzn.to/3nZoCdN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3nZoCdN</a></li> <li>The Bennet Women (fiction) - <a href="https://amzn.to/3P908um" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3P908um</a></li> </ul> --- [ HOW TO EXPLAIN SERVICE DESIGN ] --- Learn what it takes to get your clients, colleagues, managers, CEOs and even grandmas as excited about service design as you are. <a href="https://servicedesignshow.com/free-course" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://servicedesignshow.com/free-course</a>

A radically different approach to participatory design / Victor Udoewa / Episode #154

Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/   Creative Tensions is an interactive dialogue, a physically active, collective conversation where participants indicate where they stand on a question or issue by the place they stand in the room. Instead of the audience watching a speaker or panel discuss a topic, the Creative Tensions format invites the entire audience into the conversation, through movement. An interactive way to approach group conversation, Creative Tensions is a method for inclusive conversation and a way to show both where our differences and similarities lie but with specificity and nuance. Creative Tensions prompts reflection, invites openness, and celebrates the rare moment when someone changes their mind. Most importantly it stokes curiosity, promotes optimism, and inspires real empathy in participants. The way we practice it, we start in large room with a line down the middle, separating it in two parts. Everyone is standing while the moderator offers a prompt or question. The tension is created by two possible answers and the spectrum of answers in between. Participants than choose where to stand based on how they interpret the question, how they interpret the answers and where along the spectrum they believe they lie (or stand). At that point, the fun begins. The moderator gets a volunteer to tell why they are standing where they are standing and invites others to move in response to any shared answers (whether it changes their mind or enriches their position or causes them to understand the question or answer in a different light). From then on the moderator may ask others who move in response, why they moved, while allowing others to respond why they didn't, all while inviting others to continue moving in response to what they are hearing and sparking more and new conversations. All of this is facilitated with microphones so all can hear the openly shared responses. We usually organize the prompts or questions around a theme so that some questions or prompts build on previous ones or provide a twist on a previous one. This allows an even greater depth of conversation than if we had questions and prompts on random topics, starting at the surface level with each one. The physical form activates people viscerally, places them in close proximity to one another, and encourages eye-contact — all of which enhance one's ability to hear and absorb perspectives that may differ from one's own. The volleying nature of the conversation, which evenly engages audience and speakers alike, sparks a desire to hear from as many people as possible. Lastly, the invitation to move if one's perspective shifts during the conversation, opens participants to the possibility of change, a crucial step toward a growth mindset, learning, and adopting an optimistic point of view. Beyond being educational, it's also just fun and focuses and brings the body into connection with the heart and mind while navigating different issues.

Click here to keep up with the latest Goose News: <a href="http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wildgoosefestival.org/signup/</a> Creative Tensions is an interactive dialogue, a physically active, collective conversation where participants indicate where they stand on a question or issue by the place they stand in the room. Instead of the audience watching a speaker or panel discuss a topic, the Creative Tensions format invites the entire audience into the conversation, through movement. An interactive way to approach group conversation, Creative Tensions is a method for inclusive conversation and a way to show both where our differences and similarities lie but with specificity and nuance. Creative Tensions prompts reflection, invites openness, and celebrates the rare moment when someone changes their mind. Most importantly it stokes curiosity, promotes optimism, and inspires real empathy in participants. The way we practice it, we start in large room with a line down the middle, separating it in two parts. Everyone is standing while the moderator offers a prompt or question. The tension is created by two possible answers and the spectrum of answers in between. Participants than choose where to stand based on how they interpret the question, how they interpret the answers and where along the spectrum they believe they lie (or stand). At that point, the fun begins. The moderator gets a volunteer to tell why they are standing where they are standing and invites others to move in response to any shared answers (whether it changes their mind or enriches their position or causes them to understand the question or answer in a different light). From then on the moderator may ask others who move in response, why they moved, while allowing others to respond why they didn't, all while inviting others to continue moving in response to what they are hearing and sparking more and new conversations. All of this is facilitated with microphones so all can hear the openly shared responses. We usually organize the prompts or questions around a theme so that some questions or prompts build on previous ones or provide a twist on a previous one. This allows an even greater depth of conversation than if we had questions and prompts on random topics, starting at the surface level with each one. The physical form activates people viscerally, places them in close proximity to one another, and encourages eye-contact — all of which enhance one's ability to hear and absorb perspectives that may differ from one's own. The volleying nature of the conversation, which evenly engages audience and speakers alike, sparks a desire to hear from as many people as possible. Lastly, the invitation to move if one's perspective shifts during the conversation, opens participants to the possibility of change, a crucial step toward a growth mindset, learning, and adopting an optimistic point of view. Beyond being educational, it's also just fun and focuses and brings the body into connection with the heart and mind while navigating different issues.

Creative Tensions feat. Victor Udoewa