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
" Building relationships, building trust, it will always pay off. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" 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
" Research cannot be taken out of its relational context and still maintain its shape. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" The best product managers are the ones who keep learning every day. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" We want the people that we’re serving to lead the process, and we as designers have to drop our egos and let go. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations (Videoconference)
May 17, 2022
" Radical participatory research says cultural and experiential knowledge are greater than institutional knowledge. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Let the community lead; they help figure out goals, outreach, and logistics from the very first step. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
