This case study offers strategies for navigating internal frictions within research teams faced with sensitive...
Tag: Public Policy Lab
Designing for Dynamics of Agency in NYC Homeless Shelters
Public sector innovation (PSI) is an emerging multidisciplinary field that is attracting practitioners from a wide range of sectors and industries, with a correspondingly broad set of skills and experience. PSI aims to significantly improve the services that a government has the responsibility to...
The People Say: How We Built a Groundbreaking Public Research Platform to Catalyze Human-Centered Policymaking
The People Say is a pioneering research repository and a model for making rich qualitative data available for...
Let’s Shift Power Together! An EPIC Co-Creation Activity
This wildcard session was a conference-wide co-creation activity. Together, EPIC attendees reflected on the dynamic relationship between resilience and power. Then, through a facilitated, real-time activity, we collectively generated an actionable power-redistribution framework—a set of strategies...
Tutorial: Power Tools for Equity in Research & Design
Overview To do ethical, equitable work in any domain, we need robust tools for assessing and addressing power. Whether we’re creating products, services, or policies, inequities can create direct and indirect...