Anthropology + Data + Design

for Urban Poverty

Invisible

Some context

The Neighbourhood

The Client

Let’s go in reverse.

Hackathon !

(don’t groan..)

Collective Intelligence !

aka crowdsourcing

The need for a challenge

The need to understand

What We Did

Service Delivery Agency

Social Workers

Local Gov Agency

Residents

Some Qual & Quant Insights

sati

satishe has

satishe became

satishe gets

satithe kids

satiwhen asked

sati

sati

Protection trumped financial buffers

sati

Protection trumped financial bufferseven at nutritional cost

Family violence ~

Family violence ~1/FT emp

Sense Making

System Dynamics Mapping

Synthesis

One root cause?

5 Key Themes

Education

Social Connectedness

Employment

Participatory Design

Urban Poverty 101

Inner Workings of an FSC

The Human Library

Creative Jam

Weekend Hackathon

Where We Failed

Where We Succeeded

The (Working) Model

in sum !

Innovation on 3 dimensions

open + closed

qual + quant

chaotic + systematic

bernise @ syinc.org

Thank you!