Voices Without Roofs

Voices Without Roofs seeks to answer the question, "how might we help street homeless New Yorkers move into housing?" After extensive interviews with unsheltered homeless New Yorkers frontline outreach workers,…

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OpenIDEO New York Chapter

OpenIDEO.com is an open innovation community for social innovation launched and run by IDEO, an international design and innovation consultancy. Participating to OpenIDEO challenges is a great opportunity to learn…

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Crescent Rainbow

Team Names: Harshita Nedunuri, Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Katja Luostarinen, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Project description: Crescent Rainbow is focused on the intersections of identities, and creating…

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Mobility devices for the Elderly
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Mobility devices for the Elderly

1.5 Million elderly people use walkers, 4 Million elderly people use canes in America. However, what mobility device is the most preferred by them? Shopping cart! When we spoke with…

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The NYU FREEdge

How can we creatively address food insecurity while reducing food waste using human-centered design? Design for America of NYU (DFA NYU) has been working for more than a year on…

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The Project on Educating Journalists for the XXI Century Newsroom
The Project on Educating Journalists for the XXI Century Newsroom

The Project on Educating Journalists for the XXI Century Newsroom

Journalism used to be all about writing and content creation. However, today media companies produce written content along with web interactives, data applications, podcasts, newsletters, chat bots, and in some…

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Medline Project
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Medline Project

Note: Go to the journey section below to learn of the project outcome After reviewing the brief, doing some complementary research and talking to an Occupational Therapy expert at NYU…

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