Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
Deployable Surfaces: Dynamic performance through multi-material architectures
Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack
Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham
NODE
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reimagining emergency
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response for resilient
cities
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reimagining emergency
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response for resilient
cities
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reimagining emergency
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response for resilient
cities
LEBANOCRACIA
A Digital Tool for Citizens' Participation
Overview.
Advisors
Team
Lebanocracia is a digital participation platform to help Lebanese people structure and prioritize their demands from the government.
Romy Sayyah
Carla Saad
Angelo Mikhael
Ali Noueihed
Layan el Horr
Rossi Abi Rafeh
Alia Bader
Cesar Hidalgo
Carlos Navarrete
in collaboration with Datawheel
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Assets
Media Coverage
Framework.
The Story
During October 2019 uprising in Lebanon, a group of Lebanese students and young professionals partnered with Datawheel and Cesar Hidalgo to deploy a digital participation platform to be part of the Opencracia project.
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We noticed that there were many demands raised in the streets with no real structure or priorities set to have a better direction of how the implementation of change could happen.
Research
We started by collecting the demands that people are raising by looking into protesters' banners, online articles, and social media posts.
We collected 90 demands under 9 categories: Health, Justice, City/Citizen, Environment, Security, Education, Family/Personal, Economy, and Government.
How might we help the people prioritize their demands from the government?
90 Demands collected
Personas.
Users: Lebanese Citizens and Diaspora
As we are launching a platform to reflect people's voice, a wide range of personas were to be taken into account
Process.
First Iteration
We based the first iteration on the previous platform built for Chilecracia and we adapted the content to the Lebanese context by integrating the demands and the use of both English and Arabic languages simultaneously.
Media Coverage
Within our outreach strategy, we had media coverage Nationally (Agenda Culturel, MTV, etc...) and internationally (Le Figaro, Le Commerce du Levant, Diario Concepción, etc...) in addition to celebrities sharing the platform on social media.
Outreach & Analytics
Since we were seeking to engage as many users as possible, we conducted a broad outreach using facebook and whatsapp diaspora groups around the world to attract traffic to the platform.
User Feedback
We received a lot of feedback on the platform both at the level of the concept as well as possible ways to make it more intuitive
Prototype
Key Takeaways
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Digital Participation tools are needed to structure people's ideas to better communicate them with policymakers.
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Incentivizing people to share their priorities and hearing their feedback on ways of enhancing the digital experience was at the core of the success of this project.