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:
" Will you learn to let go? Better yet, will you let go? "
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
" If you want to enrich user experience, you need to pull the levers of culture and know how to read culture. "
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
" Design is not a phase, it’s an ongoing conversation with the users. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" It was such a special experience to say things that generally get me in trouble in my day-to-day work, like white supremacy culture. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations (Videoconference)
May 17, 2022
" Community members must be full-fledged members of the research team from beginning to end, no meetings without them. "
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
