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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Design for America NYU Studio created the idea of "The Incubator Club for Credit Union Members" which had been selected for the OpenIDEO challenge of Financial Longevity. The challenge was…
Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from and one-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat (McMillan, National Geographic, 2014). As our team…
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…
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…
How might we use a unique out-of-school environment to improve engagement in classroom learning for struggling students? The SS Columbia Project aims to revive the National Historic Landmark SS Columbia…