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:
" If diversity alone made research inclusive, then police could never be anti-black because they include black officers. "
Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion
March 26, 2024
" It's not a match-winning pass if no one catches it. "
Panel: Excellence in Impact
March 25, 2024
" Everything is designed, much of it poorly, so it’s incumbent on us to redesign capitalism and systems more inclusively. "
What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
September 28, 2023
" Poverty isn’t the absence of money. Poverty is the absence of relationships. "
Research in the Pluriverse
March 29, 2023
" If we practice transformation as a way of life, it’s easier to practice it in our research work. "
Theme One Intro
March 27, 2023
" Our curation process is identity hidden to prioritize equity and thematic mapping over affiliation or geography. "
Everything You Need to Know about the Civic Design 2022 Call for Presentations
May 17, 2022
" If the community is truly leading, you shouldn’t have anyone on the research team who doesn’t want to be there. "
Radical Participatory Research: Decolonizing Participatory Processes
March 9, 2022
" Design futures are not always in the future; sometimes they reflect constraints of budget, resources, or political will. "
Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
December 10, 2021
