UDD has been selected to exhibit its ongoing work for the redesign of the NYC Public School lunch trays at NYCxDESIGN, May 10-21 2013. The brainchild of City Council Speaker and Mayoral Candidate Christine C. Quinn’s office
Community Advocacy and Awareness Programs / Innovation / New York City / Selected Projects / User Experience
UDD’s “PLATED, SERVED + SAVED” at NYCxDESIGN / Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
UDD accepted into the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program
To begin 2013 we’re excited to have been accepted into the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program. Through the program, UDD will now have access to a global network of smart, diverse, and progressive entrepreneurs tackling problems and creating new platforms…
Strategic Design: Africa 101
Emerging markets have been hailed as the future of a global economy. This is in part an effort to extend US economic growth to wherever it may lie. In the case of my most recent discussions, Africa is that enormous…
Energy Crisis Gaming
The prophecy of our current energy crisis is in many respects old news. You may recall Jimmy Carter’s 1977 plea to the american public http://bit.ly/YLYgK then interpreted as a tedious history lesson. The tone of the speech was indeed…
UDD Urban Water Hacking + Innovative Devices
UDD participated in a collective Water Hackathon at the Parson Design and Technology Lab, hosted by Internet of Things and Ushahidi. The goal put our collective minds together and hack a robust low-cost water quality monitoring device. We worked with…
UDD + Partners considered for Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Grant
UDD and partners, Gaia Institute, Green Map and NYC Soil & Water Conservation District have been selected from over 400 applications for consideration of a Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Grant. Without question we are excited about our…
Why Detroit Matters
This week at UDD we’ve been confronted with that nagging design question, is North America lagging behind the rest of world in its ability to address pressing problems creatively? The history of design, as our unnamed colleague put it,
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Water Now!
Weeks of Collaboration and Wonderful Minds at Work.
UDD and our partners, Green Maps, NYC Soil & Water Conservation and Gaia Institute are excited about our combined effort to research waterfront accessibility in underserved communities.
Re.Vision Dallas
How can data support the creation and predict the sustainability of a new Zero Carbon neighborhood comprised of 500 new units of housing, schools, retail, community services, parks, car sharing and parking? Working with R+L Architects, this award winning design…
Smarter Chinatown Tourism NYC 2011
The amalgamation of things that makes Chinatown, well Chinatown, are as diverse as the people who set out daily through its maze of streets, offerings and unique experiences. Beset amongst a backdrop of sales people hawking goods, classic tenement buildings,…
The Return of the Follies: World Expo 2020
NYC thanks to Mayor Bloomberg and Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has made great strides in providing much needed and improved public space; the Hudson River and Riverside parks, arterial bike paths throughout the city, and urban plazas crafted…
How Data Makes Life Easier For People In London
Governments do it, cities do it too: Open Data is a way to put information to work that has been hidden in databases before. The London Datastore is a good example.
