Ep 231: UNICEF Office of Innovation's Elinor Samuelsson on the role of creativity, imagination, strategy, empathy, and design in helping the world's most vulnerable children

The Creative Condition podcast

(The highlights of this episode are also out now, for those with less time or patience to listen to my waffling!)
Elinor Samuelsson lets us inside the work of UNICEF's Office of Innovation, which uses imagination, innovation, invention, and play to create across complex global systems.
Language barriers, cultural differences, lack of technology, missing ambition, and access to vital services are just a few of the challenges that form puzzle-like project briefs for Elinor and her team when they seek to establish the children most in need of support. Creativity, design, and innovative systems can help to transform layered and ubiquitous information into directions to make a huge difference, and Elinor takes us through how this all works.
This is a beautiful and awe-inspiring example of why creativity must take its rightful place in global education systems when we face myriad challenges to our way of life.
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and the Ukrainian Institute https://ui.org.ua
https://www.unicef.org/innovation/
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