A designer, social innovator, and academic, Liz is an expert on sustainable design and spatial innovation in challenged urban environments globally. From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a water and health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans, Liz has a long history of engagement in the design for social impact movement.
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What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
TopicsCommunity, Social Innovation
Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a...
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How do we build better?
TopicsCommunication, Social Innovation, Sustainability
Architect, designer and social innovator Liz Ogbu and famed New York street...
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Signal, Space, Structure: Designing for Communities of Interest
DisciplineUser Experience
TopicsCommunity
Speaker Christina Xu
A simple framework for thinking about building communities of...
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Co-Design: Bringing Patients into the Design Process
DisciplineUser Experience
TopicsData
IndustryHealthcare
Speaker Katie McCurdy
Co-presented a session on Co-Design, along with Nick Dawson, to an audience of...
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Lessening the Research Burden on Vulnerable Communities
DisciplineUser Research
TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design, Social Innovation
IndustryNonprofit
Speaker Sarah Fathallah
In what ways can we make research less burdensome for vulnerable communities?...
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