In this episode, I talked with Megan Marini, co-founder and Principal, Director of Strategy and Outreach of 3X3, an inclusive and participatory innovation studio designing for systemic change, based in New York City and New Delhi. Over the past decade, they have been bringing communities, the public sector, and private entities together as allies to create social transformation and impact.

Megan is a designer, architect and strategist passionate about community-centered design and designing for justice and systemic change. She shared her work helping civic organizations in various parts of the world to listen to, learn from, and collaborate with their stakeholders to design and pilot innovative programs, services, and initiatives that unlock social value. Megan emphasized the need to be thoughtful about the unintended consequences of design, even participatory design. She stressed the need to explore ways to enact inclusion and power sharing in design practices. Megan shared with me the main components of the 3X 3 Toolkit for community-centered design and how it can help facilitate more inclusive and just design practices.

Read about 3X3 Community-centered design toolkit here: https://3x3.co/toolkit/overview/

Follow Megan Marini on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-marini-79255914/

And on 3X3 website: https://3x3.co

Credits:

Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard

Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva

Music: Blake Rook

Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

Designing for Systemic Change through Community-Centered Design