The Ci3 Spotlight highlights a staff member from our interdisciplinary team of researchers, designers, storytellers, and policy experts. Name: Robin CogdellPronouns: (they/them)Title/Role at Ci3: Visual Communications Designer Tell us about what inspires your graphic design and illustrative work at Ci3. What’s been your favorite project so far and why? I draw inspiration from loads of things I … Continue reading Ci3 Spotlight: Robin Cogdell
The Ci3 Spotlight highlights a staff member from our interdisciplinary team of researchers, designers, storytellers, and policy experts. Name: Ireashia M Bennett Pronouns: (they/them)Title/Role at Ci3: Audio-Visual Production Manager; Visual Storytelling Extraordinaire! Tell us about what you do at Ci3, and how it connects to your career dreams and aspirations (past and present). Within this role, I contribute … Continue reading Ci3 Spotlight: Ireashia M Bennett
By Soo Young Lee, Ci3 Research Specialist Health disparities research helps to document critical gaps in outcomes across a variety of domains, however, rarely are young people involved in designing the interventions to reduce these disparities. To address this problem, Ci3 at the University of Chicago launched Kissa Kahani, an India-based project that applies multimedia storytelling and innovative participatory … Continue reading From Research to Intervention: Creating Healthier Futures with Indian Youth
By Erin Garcia Transmedia Collage is a two-year intergenerational program that aims to rethink the economic, political, and social structures that present long-term challenges for Chicago’s South Side community and its residents, especially young people. Led by Ci3’s Transmedia Story Lab and University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) History Moves, the project engaged high school … Continue reading South Side Speculations: Building Healthier and Freer Futures with Youth
By Catherine Wieczorek, Visual Communications Designer, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab How do you create a youth-facing brand for adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) education and awareness? This summer, during four workshops Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab did just that. During the spring, we invited 14 young people from several neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side to … Continue reading Branding a Youth-Centered Model of Care
By Catherine Wieczorek, Visual Communications Designer, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab How does Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab (DTL) go from a prototype created during a participatory design workshop with young people, to a scalable communication tool? The idea of a tangible birth control counseling tool came directly from young people during our 2017 Summer Design Challenge, … Continue reading Making Contraceptive Choices Tangible For Youth
By Amanda Geppert, Director, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab Laura Paradis, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Design Lead, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab The Ci3 Design Thinking Lab (DTL) works with young people and providers to understand how sexual and reproductive healthcare could work better for youth and young adults. Recognizing that young people face challenges in … Continue reading Co-Designing Adolescent-Centered Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
By Laura Paradis Design Researcher and Strategist On October 9, Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab and the Comer Mobile Health Unit partnered with the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance (ISSA) to provide healthcare services and facilitate a workshop on approaches to human-centered design at their 2017 symposium. The event was a milestone in ISSA’s history, being the … Continue reading Providing services and perspectives at the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance Symposium
By Lee Hasselbacher, J.D. Sr. Policy Researcher The Mobile Health Unit, one of Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab projects, seeks to find new ways to meet young people where they are and provide the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care they desire. We believe that through designing new systems of delivery in partnership with communities and … Continue reading Quality Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in the Justice System
By Bea Malsky, A/V Specialist Game Changer Chicago Infection City is an asymmetrical board game about epidemiology, vaccines, public health resource distribution, and meningitis. Intended for use in high school classrooms, Infection City enlists its most treacherous player as an insidious infection and the rest as a team of epidemiologists defending the city of Chicago with … Continue reading Infection City: New GCC Board Game Pits Meningitis Against a Team of Epidemiologists
