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Unpacking Our “Why”

Unpacking Our “Why”

Reflections on Measuring Impact at Greater Good Studio
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Sara Cantor
Social Impact Purchasing

Social Impact Purchasing

Changing the World, One Purchase at a Time
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Taylor Lay
Decentering the Designer

Decentering the Designer

Methods to move beyond the hero paradigm and center community in public realm design
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Betsy Ramaccia
When We Say Clean

When We Say Clean

What do we conjure when we call something “clean” in design?
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Christina Cosio
Social Change by Design Database v2

Social Change by Design Database v2

Our studio gets asked more than any other who else does this work?
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George Aye
What the American Dream means to a South Asian teen

What the American Dream means to a South Asian teen

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Wajeeha Amir
Human-centered (re)design

Human-centered (re)design

How to reboot your program for the realities of COVID-19
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Sara Cantor
4 Ways To Create A Human-Centered Workplace, Notes From An Operations Manager

4 Ways To Create A Human-Centered Workplace, Notes From An Operatio...

From my first day last summer it was obvious that Greater Good Studio has a very intentional and distinct approach to work. Rather than…
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Samantha Kawabata
The pressure to produce high-fidelity products conflicts with an openness to feedback

The pressure to produce high-fidelity products conflicts with an op...

This blog post is Part IV of a four-part series on the built environment. Read Part I, Part II, and Part III.
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Kareeshma Ali
There is an imbalance between lived and learned experience

There is an imbalance between lived and learned experience

This blog post is Part III of a four-part series on the built environment. Read Part I and Part II.
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Kareeshma Ali
Built environment projects are often not set up to support deep learning

Built environment projects are often not set up to support deep lea...

This blog post is Part II of a four-part series on the built environment. Read Part I here.
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Kareeshma Ali
Human-Centered Design: Bringing humanity into the built environment

Human-Centered Design: Bringing humanity into the built environment

This blog post is Part I of a four-part series on the built environment. Stay tuned for the Part II.
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Kareeshma Ali
Allies: What They Are and How To Be One

Allies: What They Are and How To Be One

The word ally comes from the Latin word, alligare, to bind. This “binding” has transformed from its military associations to mean more than…
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Gabriel B. Ibarra
Relational Recruiting: How We Learn from Hard-to-Reach People

Relational Recruiting: How We Learn from Hard-to-Reach People

A big part of our human-centered design process at Greater Good Studio involves talking to people — particularly potential users of the…
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Annemarie Spitz
The only competitors that matter

The only competitors that matter

“Who else does this?”
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Sara Cantor
A Perspective of Abundance

A Perspective of Abundance

After having the pleasure of hearing environmentalist and economist Winona LaDuke speak at the Newberry Library in 2016, I started…
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Christina Cosio
What do you call your people?

What do you call your people?

A question for designers, and the clients that hire them.
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Sara Cantor
Operationalizing Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in your Nonprofit

Operationalizing Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in your Nonprofit

Let’s say that you work in operations / administration for a non-profit, and let’s say you’re already aware of what diversity versus…
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Alvin Schexnider
Design Education’s Big Gap: Understanding the Role of Power

Design Education’s Big Gap: Understanding the Role of Power

Conventional design education believes that by training the mind and the hand, a designer can solve just about any problem. In many ways…
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George Aye
Embracing a Faster Path to Changemaking

Embracing a Faster Path to Changemaking

Most of us here at Greater Good Studio came from a design background rooted in product development. In that world, it’s all about designing…
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Maris Garcia
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