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Victor Udoewa

Service Design Lead, CDC

Having started his career in the design and development of computational tools for scientific applications, Victor shifted his focus to the social impact space and Information and Communications Technologies for Development, both community and international development. He is a practitioner and advocate of participatory design, a meta-methodology he’s used in service and system design for governments, multilateral institutions, nonprofits, for-profits, and communities, to facilitate skill-building and improved employment opportunities for community members. Bitten by the “civic-innovation bug” he is now focused on creating or improving government products and services for citizens, immigrants, and refugees.

Victor has a particular love for design, learning, and design education. He advocates bringing practices such as positive deviance, pluriversal methods, and systems practice into civic design. He helps leads an equity-centered meetup group and Justice by Design as part of his work to decolonize design. Outside of work you can find Victor teaching salsa, singing with his a cappella group, volunteering as a health trauma and crisis counselor, or (mostly) hanging out with his family.

Rosenverse talks by Victor:

Victor Udoewa

" Songs are our way of knowing; you can tell someone's emotional state by the song they sing. "

Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion

March 26, 2024

Victor Udoewa

" You can be an amazing researcher and have zero impact, or be a bad researcher and have amazing impact. "

Panel: Excellence in Impact

March 25, 2024

Victor Udoewa

" Culture carries inequities; researchers must be aware of their own positionality to avoid missing critical context. "

What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

September 28, 2023

Victor Udoewa

" Mainstream institutional knowledge is just a study of aesthetic, energetic, intuitive, embodied, relational, community, cultural, and lived experiential knowledge. "

Research in the Pluriverse

March 29, 2023

Victor Udoewa

" Design is not a phase, it’s an ongoing conversation with the users. "

Theme One Intro

March 27, 2023

Victor Udoewa

" The identity-blind review of proposals ensures we prioritize content and diverse viewpoints over names, organizations, or geography. "

Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations (Videoconference)

May 17, 2022

Victor Udoewa

" Empathy is an impossibility because of inherent power imbalances between researcher and participant. "

Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes

March 9, 2022

Victor Udoewa

" Empathy is an impossibility because of the inherent power dynamics between designer and participant. "

Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes

December 10, 2021

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