The OpEd Fellowship video has been released. For those who have heard me talk about this incredible program, here’s an opportunity to watch a video that shows a bit behind the scenes. I am remain immensely grateful for my participation and to our amazing editors, Michelle Weldon and EJ Graff who led us through the storm.
Author Archives: Rick Marzec
DFA team Swipesense selected as one of the top ten start ups for Wall Street Journal
SwipeSense, is a medical startup founded by two recent Northwestern graduates through the University student group Design for America, has been selected as one of the final 10 contestants in the Wall Street Journal’s documentary, “WSJ Startup of the Year.” Check out their process videos.
CSCW 2014 Workshop Accepted : Structures for Knowledge Co-creation Between Organisations and the Public
I’m thrilled to be helping to lead a workshop at CSCW 2014 examining how social computing technologies have emerged to support innovative new relationships between organisations and the public. We discuss how this work has been inspired by concepts such as collective intelligence, citizen science, citizen journalism and crowdsourcing, diverse types of organisations are aiming to increase engagement with the public, collect localised knowledge, or leverage human cognition and creativity. In supporting these approaches, organisations are often provoked to make their data and processes more open, and to be inclusive of differing motivations and perspectives from inside and outside the organisation. In doing so, they raise new questions for both designers and organisations. For example how are “official‟ and „unofficial‟ information sources combined or hosted, mediated, or considered reliable? Does the role of the professional change through greater involvement of amateurs? How are the motivations of members of the public harnessed for mutual benefit? This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to address those questions from different perspectives.
Paper on crowdfunding work to appear at CSCW 2014
Our large scale qualitative study on crowdfunding work, including the specific technological pain points and future opportunities, will appear at CSCW 2014 in Baltimore. The work counters the popular press that tends to downplay the amount of work required to crowdfund and explores the way in which the community share expertise with one another.
Design for America to work with FEMA
I am thrilled to announce that Design for America studios (Cornell, Rice, Baltimore, Yale, RISD – Brown, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Northwestern, Case Western, Barnard – Columbia, University of Illinois UC, Virginia Tech) will be working with FEMA this coming school year to improve the response to natural disaster.
Join me for the National Endowment for the Arts Webinar on Social Impact Design
Please join me and my colleagues, William Drenttel, president of Winterhouse Institute and co-founder of Design Observer, Charlie Cannon, chief design officer at epic decade and associate professor of industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design, and Mike Weikert, founding director of Center for Social Design & master of arts in Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art for the National Endowment for the Arts webinar on Social Impact Design on Tuesday, August 20th from 2-3pm EST.
More details can be found at here and here
The webinar will coincide with the third annual Symposium on Design Education and Social Change.
Paper on Crowdfunding to appear in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Thank you to the anonymous reviewers and our lab for supporting our publication titled “Crowdfunding: Motivations and Deterrents for Participation” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Received National Science Foundation Grant to work on The Loft
My colleague, Matt Easterday, and I just got word that we received an NSF grant to work on our Digital Loft Project, an online platform to connect, collaborate, and create solutions to challenging social problems. We have an awesome team working on this project and will plan on rolling on the online platform this fall. This project builds on initial work done through funding from the Mozilla and MacArthur Foundations.
Joining the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems as a Associate Chair
I am looking forward to joining the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems as a Associate Chair. The organizing committee includes smart, energetic faculty. I can’t wait!
Design For America’s Swipe Sense is selected as a “Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year”
Congratulations to Design for America’s Swipe Sense team for being chosen by the The Wall Street Journal editors to participate in ‘WSJ Startup of the Year,‘ an episodic video documentary for WSJ Live, the Journal’s online video platform. The series will track their progress from startup to success over the course of five months.