DesignMatters Fellowship Video from Dustin York on Vimeo.

During my DesignMatters Fellowship, UNICEF placed significant emphasis on figuring out how to learn from their own past projects and use that as important lessons to apply for new projects. Some of the most rigorous organization, iteration, and analysis was required in the conception of program frameworks (for initiatives in health, education, etc), because using the experience gained and documented becomes some of the pillars on which to identify proven techniques and strategies. The Innovation Team often tasked me with helping to bring these methods to work—and in addition to that the DesignMatters and UNICEF collaboration itself is a program which builds, where the predecessor has something to share with next year’s Fellow. This video is a reflection of the Innovation Team’s perpetual aim to improve upon past efforts, in that it was an attempt to make explicit my most significant experiences and takeaways. The hope is that this sheds some light on what I had learned, and perhaps others could learn from that as well.

I would like to thank DesignMatters representatives Mariana Amatullo and Elisa Ruffino, and my DesignMatters mentor Stephanie Sigg for their support and for making this all possible. Much gratitude also goes to the UNICEF Innovation Team, particularly team leaders Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi for promoting such ambitious project goals. Thanks also goes to Jorge Just and Khairani Barokka, in addition to the many other individuals at UNICEF, for their collaborations.