Designing for Social Impact
Jessica OddyMy musings on designing anti-oppressive research, community development and education.
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The system we won’t name
Designing Otherwise — Substack companion to this week’s newsletter on the myth of systems change.
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Every couple of months on Linkedin, someone will post a thought-provoking article about the polycrisis.
De...
Eight Non-Fiction Books that have made me Think Differently about Social Impact Design
I love a good book. My idea of a dreamy weekend is sitting somewhere close to nature with one in my hand.
Books have changed my world. They changed how I design. How I sit in a scoping meeting. How I read a proposal. How I decide what coun...
The Architecture Always Wins
I want to tell you about somewhere I went recently.
I visited Chipukizi, an outdoor school in Kenya. No walls. The classrooms were trees. The day moved by light and weather rather than bells. Children moved between activities at a rhythm...
Behind the Sugar Factory
I live behind an old, disused sugar factory, which is surrounded by cane fields.
The chimney is one of the first things I see when I open the curtains in the morning, and the last thing that disappears into the dark when the sky goes from...
The Words We Choose to Disappear
This is the Substack companion to Issue 04 of Designing Otherwise. The newsletter version gave you the exercise. This is the longer argument underneath it.
Post-it notes from a Design for Social Impact training with the Natio...
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I’m a social impact strategist, former humanitarian worker, citizen science fan and unapologetic equity nerd who’s spent over a decade working at the intersection of philanthropy, social impact, and justice-led design.
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