Speaking engagements
Please find upcoming speaking engagements below. For guest lectures and workshop inquiries, email andrea (at) creativeresco.org.
March 3, 2023
Critical UX: Challenging the Dogma of UX
Whether it’s designing for delight or usability, designers are primed to address the pain points of their users. But when we only focus on individual-level problems, we can fail to account for the complex and even contradictory needs of the communities, governments, and ecosystems we’re embedded in. A panel moderated by Alba Villamil, featuring Cyd Harrell, Dr. Madhuri Karak, and Andrea Ngan.
Critical UX: Challenging the Dogma of UX
Whether it’s designing for delight or usability, designers are primed to address the pain points of their users. But when we only focus on individual-level problems, we can fail to account for the complex and even contradictory needs of the communities, governments, and ecosystems we’re embedded in. A panel moderated by Alba Villamil, featuring Cyd Harrell, Dr. Madhuri Karak, and Andrea Ngan.
November 6, 2022
Design Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia’s Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit: Towards a Shared Vision and Practice
In this session, the Toolkit team will share a presentation about how they’ve approached collaboratively designing and implementing equitable practices across City agencies and community members. The team will then invite participants into a discussion centering on accountability in equitable community engagement.
Design Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia’s Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit: Towards a Shared Vision and Practice
In this session, the Toolkit team will share a presentation about how they’ve approached collaboratively designing and implementing equitable practices across City agencies and community members. The team will then invite participants into a discussion centering on accountability in equitable community engagement.
Virtual Event
DesignTO Symposium: No Such Thing as Normal
DesignTO’s seventh annual symposium brings 11 multidisciplinary experts together to discuss how we can dismantle the long-accepted idea of “normal,” in order to design for diversity, specifically in the context of a global pandemic. Speakers include Zahra Ebrahim, EDIT Collective, Eman El-Fayomi, Tiyondah Fante-Coleman, Laura Forlano, Esmond Lee, Andrea Ngan, Simone Shahid, Jay Shaw, Mona Sloane, and Jutta Treviranus, covering inclusive design, unlearning, artificial intelligence, co-creation, healthcare, post-pandemic design, and other thought-provoking topics.
DesignTO Symposium: No Such Thing as Normal
DesignTO’s seventh annual symposium brings 11 multidisciplinary experts together to discuss how we can dismantle the long-accepted idea of “normal,” in order to design for diversity, specifically in the context of a global pandemic. Speakers include Zahra Ebrahim, EDIT Collective, Eman El-Fayomi, Tiyondah Fante-Coleman, Laura Forlano, Esmond Lee, Andrea Ngan, Simone Shahid, Jay Shaw, Mona Sloane, and Jutta Treviranus, covering inclusive design, unlearning, artificial intelligence, co-creation, healthcare, post-pandemic design, and other thought-provoking topics.
January 20 2022, 6 PM–7:30 PM
AIGA New York: Dome Making a Seat at the Table
Join Katie Lee and Lynn Kiang, co-founders of Dome as they share the process of making Seat at the Table, a public exhibition that highlights the current state of gender inequity in America and a reminder of the ongoing struggle by women since gaining the right to vote over 100 years ago. This event will be moderated by Andrea Ngan.
AIGA New York: Dome Making a Seat at the Table
Join Katie Lee and Lynn Kiang, co-founders of Dome as they share the process of making Seat at the Table, a public exhibition that highlights the current state of gender inequity in America and a reminder of the ongoing struggle by women since gaining the right to vote over 100 years ago. This event will be moderated by Andrea Ngan.
April 1, 2021, 6 PM - 7:30 PM:
Code for America Summit
Building a Practice of Equity-Centered Design: A session offering perspectives around how three teams are approaching and working towards more equitable practices in government. From Philadelphia, The PHL Service Design Studio will share how they’re collaborating with City employees, community-based organizations, and residents to co-design a Toolkit to strengthen equitable community engagement across Philadelphia.
Code for America Summit
Building a Practice of Equity-Centered Design: A session offering perspectives around how three teams are approaching and working towards more equitable practices in government. From Philadelphia, The PHL Service Design Studio will share how they’re collaborating with City employees, community-based organizations, and residents to co-design a Toolkit to strengthen equitable community engagement across Philadelphia.
April 1, 2021, 6 PM - 7:30 PM:
MICA’s Mixed Media: Building New Futures at the Intersection of Design & Social Justice
The Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invited Denise Shanté Brown of Black Womxn Flourish to design and facilitate a two-part guided module, Design as a Pathway to Justice. To continue this conversation on design justice, Denise Shanté is hosting a public panel as part of MICA’s Mixed Media Speakers series that will gather Wesley Taylor from Design Justice Network, Andrea Ngan from Creative Resilience Collective, and N'Deye Diakhate from Black Womxn Flourish. Update: View the recording here.
MICA’s Mixed Media: Building New Futures at the Intersection of Design & Social Justice
The Center for Social Design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invited Denise Shanté Brown of Black Womxn Flourish to design and facilitate a two-part guided module, Design as a Pathway to Justice. To continue this conversation on design justice, Denise Shanté is hosting a public panel as part of MICA’s Mixed Media Speakers series that will gather Wesley Taylor from Design Justice Network, Andrea Ngan from Creative Resilience Collective, and N'Deye Diakhate from Black Womxn Flourish. Update: View the recording here.
November 12, 2020, 7 PM - 8 PM
University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art Studio Core Conversation
On Staying Together: A Collective Art and Design Practice in Pursuit of Healing JusticeThis presentation explores emergent strategies and case studies devised or experienced by the Creative Resilience Collective (CRC), a community group based in Philadelphia founded on design and disability justice principles working at the intersection of art, design, education, mental health care, research, and technology.
University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art Studio Core Conversation
On Staying Together: A Collective Art and Design Practice in Pursuit of Healing JusticeThis presentation explores emergent strategies and case studies devised or experienced by the Creative Resilience Collective (CRC), a community group based in Philadelphia founded on design and disability justice principles working at the intersection of art, design, education, mental health care, research, and technology.
November 2019
Columbia University’s Medical Humanities Synapsis Writers Retreat
A workshop bringing together past and present writers for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Creative Resilience Collective’s Andrea Ngan and Bennett Kuhn will present their work and lead a Speculative Design Workshop.
Columbia University’s Medical Humanities Synapsis Writers Retreat
A workshop bringing together past and present writers for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Creative Resilience Collective’s Andrea Ngan and Bennett Kuhn will present their work and lead a Speculative Design Workshop.