Community-Centered Design 101: Prashanth Venkataram
About this Event

Join 3x3 for a lively gathering around the challenges, myths, and joys of practicing community-centered design.

We’ve created this recurring gathering space for emerging and established practitioners to connect, learn, and support each other in their use of inclusive and community-centered design. We welcome all professional backgrounds and experience levels — no prior training or knowledge of community-centered design needed!

Takeaways

The aim of this gathering is to offer an onboarding or refresher to the core values and applications of community-centered design and provide space for participants to engage in discussion, story sharing, and networking:

Understand the lineage and evolution of community-centered design in practice;
Gain exposure to the core mindsets and values driving community-centered design;
Engage in conversation with fellow practitioners to share challenges, resources, and inspiration;
Learn about other training opportunities and resources to continue to evolve your practice.

Format

This online event will be a combination of a CC101 overview and a guest speaker presentation, followed by an open discussion. The Zoom link will be shared prior to the start of the session.

Facilitators and Guest Speakers

Prashanth Venkataram, Cambridge Systematics: The guest speaker of this session. Prashanth is a transportation consultant exploring the intersection of transportation and disability. Prashanth uses a combined approach of mixed methods, lived experiences, and policy to advocate for change.

Amanda Ramos, 3x3: A facilitator of this session. Amanda is an architect and advocate advising the community building and learning efforts at 3×3. She focuses on community-centered design to co-create futures that are strategic, regenerative, and equitable.

Jeremie Candio, 3x3: A facilitator of this session. Jeremie is a multimedia designer focusing on using research to meet the core values of communities in need through 3×3. Through design, Jeremie hopes to promote and establish equitable opportunities and experiences for marginalized communities and provide them a voice through design mediums.

About 3x3

Drawing from over a decade of experience developing methods that center communities in design, policy, and planning decisions, this event is part of a larger learning series for teams to integrate critical reflection, collaboration, and inclusion into their everyday work.