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
The ERA Chair in Social
Innovation 5-year report
This report is an executive summary designed to encapsulate and showcase the work and achievements that have been produced and delivered by the ERA Chair team since September 2021. For further details on specific activities, individual annual reports are available.
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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.