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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It’s Dangerous to Go Alone
DisciplineUser Experience
TopicsCommunity, Culture
Speaker Christina Xu
In many industries, publishers can sometimes hurt unknown artists more than they...
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Civic & Government Technology
DisciplineProduct Design
TopicsDesign Strategy
IndustriesGovernment, Nonprofit
Speaker Genevieve Gaudet
Rising women in civic and government technology...
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The Science of Happy Design
DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research
TopicsCulture, Web & Mobile
IndustryTechnology
Speaker Pamela Pavliscak
“So much of the news about technology tells us that the Internet makes us anxious,...
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