Victor Udoewa

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC · Office of Public Health Data Surveillance

Work to improve the health of a system should look at decision-making because decisions propagate throughout a system, shaping system dynamics. This is especially true for decisions by those with more power, resources, and relationships in a system. Usually, human collective or group decision-making is conducted from an individualist, objectivist p...

Any system health work must look at decision-making because decisions propagate throughout a system, shaping system dynamics. Usually, human decision-making is conducted from an individualist, objectivist perspective. What happens when we use an approach based on the radical relationality of Radical Participatory Design and Relational Design? This...

The presentation is a documentation of a workshop that explores holistic pluriversal approaches to design, research, and engagement. It interrogates, challenges, and provides alternate ways of thinking to the Eurocentric design canon and the unequal knowledge production systems that have created models of power that give rise to asymmetric design o...

Much of the systems community’s explicit justice work has focused on the ecological crisis of climate, but not as much has been shared about the learnings from other intersectional social justice movements such as racial, gender, disability, LGBTQIA+, indigenous, and economic justice. This is partly because this systems practice work is being done...

How can service designers create services that simultaneously address customer needs both today and in the future? Using a new method called ‘triangulated recursive mapping’ to combine futures research with human-centred research, we learn to create services that are responsive to rapidly evolving customer needs over time.

This is a presentation of the Ten Big Ideas for Pluriversal Design which resulted from discussions of the Pluriversal Design Working Group of the Future of Design Education project. This presentation was made to the Education Special Interest group of the Design Research Society in December 2023

In decolonial academic and popular work and discourse, there is a strong emphasis on decolonization. However, in “postcolonial” times of neocolonialism, decolonization is only the first step on the anticolonial road towards the worlds of our making. Where that anticolonial road leads is full of endless options and possibilities. Using an African In...

Currently design is in the midst of several potential upheavals including the postcolonial, decolonial, ontological, and pluriversal turns. This conversation among design educators explores these turns under the inclusive umbrella of pluriversal design by focusing specifically on the temporality of the pluriverse in design education. By engaging in...

A day in the life of a design educator in the pluriversal future, in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Trigger warning: this story contains a vague depiction of suicide. (This is part of a paired submission, each “paper” reviewed and accepted independently. This paper is paired with the paper entitled The Pluriversal Future of Design Education. They can be read...

A day in the life of a design educator in the pluriversal future, in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Trigger warning: this story contains a vague depiction of suicide. (This is part of a paired submission, each “paper” reviewed and accepted independently. This paper is paired with the paper entitled The Pluriversal Future of Design Education. They can be read...

In decolonial academic and popular work and discourse, there is a strong emphasis on decolonization. However, in “postcolonial” times of neocolonialism, decolonization is only the first step on the anticolonial road towards the worlds of our making. Where that anticolonial road leads is full of endless options and possibilities. Using an African In...

A day in the life of a design educator in the pluriversal future, in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Trigger warning: this story contains a vague depiction of suicide. (This is part of a paired submission, each “paper” reviewed and accepted independently. This paper is paired with the paper entitled The Pluriversal Future of Design Education. They can be read...

In decolonial academic and popular work and discourse, there is a strong emphasis on decolonization. However, in “postcolonial” times of neocolonialism, decolonization is only the first step on the anticolonial road towards the worlds of our making. Where that anticolonial road leads is full of endless options and possibilities. Using an African In...

Currently design is in the midst of several potential upheavals including the postcolonial, decolonial, ontological, and pluriversal turns. This conversation among design educators explores these turns under the inclusive umbrella of pluriversal design by focusing specifically on the temporality of the pluriverse in design education. By engaging in...

Donnella Meadow's groundbreaking work in systems theory and practice continues to remain relevant today. And yet, we must ask for whom? Most of the systems community's justice work has focused on the ecological crisis of climate, but not much has been shared about the learnings from other intersectional social justice movements such as racial, gend...

The Future of Design Education working group on Pluriversal Design — with members from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, South and Southeastern Asia, North America, Oceania, and Europe — developed recommendations for higher education design curricula. The group addresses the dominance of a Eurocentric design canon and worldwide colonization by...

Because services typically have multiple products and subservices, designing a service and measuring its health is complex. We share our approach to (re)designing a NASA service to improve customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX) and service health, whilst incorporating equity into all three.

Participatory design occurs when professional designers do design work with the community members who will use the design. Traditional (colonial) participatory design leaves the choice of methodology in the hands of the professional designer, the leader or facilitator, who often chooses extractivist methods and methodologies, contradicting the very...

LearnServe Abroad is an international, summer, service-learning, high school program with a short, local, post-trip, social entrepreneurship component. Founded in 2003 in Washington, DC, it has faced a number of difficulties. Motivation and engagement issues, drop-outs, incomplete or untouched entrepreneurial projects, homesickness during trips, te...

The Pluriversal Design Education working group met from April – September of 2021. This publication contains the results of their discussions. This document shares the detailed content that led to the ten Big Ideas shared through the FDE initiative. The document opens with an essay that supports the readers’ understanding of the core concepts that...

Outside of community-led design projects, most participatory design processes initiated by a company or organisation maintain or even strengthen power imbalances between the design organisation and the community on whose purported behalf they are designing, further increasing the absencing experience. Radical participatory design (RPD) is a radical...

Design has been a massive failure. It has functioned in the service of industry and capitalism, leaving us a world with several crises which we are failing to resolve. The onto-epistemic framework out of which this type of design injustice emerges is coloniality, highlighting a trans-locally experienced truth: our ontologies are our epistemologies....

Human-centered Design and Futures Design both offer different routes to alternative, new designs. Human-centered Design employs a need-based, problem-based, or deficit-based approach. Through the use of a shared, preferred future vision, Futures Design utilizes an asset-based approach, potentially leading to different, present-day design choices th...

Service learning is an educational model that incorporates instruction, learning, service, and reflection. Many critics have highlighted weaknesses of service learning including its inability to address structural issues, build authentic relationships with communities, assess learning, and meet community goals. Expeditionary learning is a newer lea...

Annually, the U.S. government invests $94 billion on IT products and services. The majority of these projects fail--they are late, over budget, canceled outright, or, if delivered, are outdated or not user-friendly. Due to barriers in hiring and training, the government tends to outsource IT talent at a premium through contractors, but outsourcing...

Started as a program in 2003 and then incorporated as a nonprofit in 2008, each year, LearnServe has taken students of diverse backgrounds from the Washington, DC area to experience a summer of international service-learning and social entrepreneurship. However, the students who travel abroad are not always prepared to go or able to successfully co...

Each year the U.S. government invests more than $86 billion on IT products and services, yet the majority of these projects fail--they are delivered late, go over budget, are canceled, are outdated when finally delivered, or do not fit the user. Due to barriers in hiring and training, the government has tended to outsource IT talent at a premium pr...

YES Prep Public Schools is a group of public charter schools focused on serving students from low-income communities across Houston, Texas. One requirement of all YES students is summer school between grades 5 through 10 and two mandatory summer internships between grades 10 and 12. Due to financial concerns many students who desire to do an intern...

In 2015, over two hundred million people, around the world, went online for the first time bringing the number of people worldwide using the Internet to 3.2 billion. Still, a majority of the world, about 4.2 billion, is offline. The barriers to going online and becoming digitally literate can be greater than just infrastructural obstacles, includin...

In 2015, over two hundred million people, around the world, went online for the first time bringing the number of people worldwide using the Internet to 3.2 billion. Still, a majority of the world, about 4.2 billion, is offline. The barriers to going online and becoming digitally literate can be greater than just infrastructural obstacles, includin...

This paper presents a dynamic learning framework (DLF) for engineering courses with rich mathematical and geometrical contents. The word "dynamic" implies that there are several moving components in the course contents and assessments. Moving contents are enabled by random-number generators to select text/paragraph from a database or chose a number...

This paper presents a dynamic learning framework (DLF) based on dynamic course contents and assessment methods using latest web-based technologies with keeping in mind the recent advancement in touchpad computing devices (such as IPAD and Android based tablets). In the DLF framework, the effectiveness is assessed via evaluating the learning outcome...

The aim is to develop computational techniques for studying aerodynamic interactions between multiple objects when an object exits and separates from an aircraft. The object could be a paratrooper jumping out of a transport aircraft or a package of emergency aid dropped from a cargo plane. In all these cases, the computational challenge is to predi...

Our target is to develop computational techniques for studying aerodynamic interactions between multiple objects. The computational challenge is to predict the dynamic behavior and path of the object, so that separation (the process of objects relatively falling or moving away from each other) is safe and effective. This is a very complex problem b...

The aim is to develop computational techniques for studying aerodynamic interactions between multiple objects when an object exits and separates from an aircraft. The object could be a paratrooper jumping out of a transport aircraft or a package of emergency aid dropped from a cargo plane. In all these cases, the computational challenge is to predi...

The target is to develop computational techniques for studying aerodynamic interactions between multiple objects with emphasis on studying the fluid mechanics and dynamics of an object exiting and separating from an aircraft. In these cases, the computational challenge is to predict the dynamic behaviour and path of the object, so that the separati...

Our target is to develop computational techniques for studying aerodynamic interactions between multiple objects with emphasis on studying the fluid mechanics and dynamics of an object exiting and separating from an aircraft. The object could be a paratrooper jumping out of a transport aircraft or a package of emergency aid dropped from a cargo pla...

This paper concerns the development and testing of a set of numerical simulation tools that can be used in studying the aerodynamics of an object exiting and separating from a flying aircraft. The object could be a paratrooper jumping from the side door of a transport aircraft, or a cargo, such as a crate of emergency aid or a ground vehicle, being...

We present the computational methods we have developed for simulation of the aerodynamics of a para- trooper during the time period following immediately after the paratrooper jumps from a cargo aircraft. These methods can also be used for the aerodynamic simulation of a payload, such as a crate of emergency aid or a ground vehicle, being dropped f...