As part of our research and engagement with organizations and communities, we develop various resources to inspire social change and support social innovation projects.
The Design Thinking RoundTable is a podcast where we invite social innovators, designers, and change makers who share their work and perspectives with us. We have 3 themes in the Podcast: Conversations on Design, Social Innovators in Residence and Tales of the Field.
The Podcast is a collaboration between the DESIS Lab and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation at NOVA SBE with the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace.
The Design Thinking Roundtable Podcast was selected as one of the 15 best social innovation podcasts. It was also recognized as #23 of the Top 100 Design Podcasts for 2025 and #22 of the Top 80 Social Innovation Podcasts for 2025.
You can listen to it on Spotify and Apple Podcast
Are you co-creating? A critical companion to more inclusive collaboration
This companion document challenges the hidden assumptions in popular co-creation methods. Unlike traditional toolkits that provide step-by-step instructions, it acts as a critical lens, helping facilitators recognize power dynamics, cultural differences, and knowledge hierarchies that standard approaches often ignore.
The Bindi Guide aims to help NGOs and grassroots groups co-create self-sustaining programs to empower low-income women. It provides them with a step-by-step process on how to design and facilitate such programs using a human-centered design and train-the-trainer approach.
It was developed by Anne-Laure Fayard and students from DFA NYU in 2014-2016 in collaboration with Women for Human Rights (a non-for-profit based in Nepal) and women from Tripureshwar and Wishwas (a non-for-profit based in Queens, NY) and some of their members. The project started as a winning idea on the OpenIDEO platform and was supported by funding from UKAID.