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:
" Systems of value determine whose knowledge we increase and whose knowledge we diminish. "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" 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
" Large language models turn computers and language into an interface where tools and human subjectivities exchange information. "
What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)
September 28, 2023
" The closer you get to defining research, the more it loses its context; the deeper the context, the less specific the definition. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" A product roadmap is a living document, it evolves with the market and users. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" The conference is single track, so everyone is focused on the same content at the same time for a robust, engaged experience. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations (Videoconference)
May 17, 2022
" Empathy is an impossibility because of inherent power imbalances between researcher and participant. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Land acknowledgments don’t actually change the allocation of power or resources. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
