The Design Thinking Roundtable is a collaboration between the DESIS Lab and the ERA Chair in Social Innovation at NOVA SBE with the Design Lab @ NYU MakerSpace. Originally conceived by Harshita Nedunuri and Anne-Laure Fayard, then co-created with Priyanka Vora. Since Fall 20219, it is conceived and produced by AL Fayard. Audio production and sound design (in various episodes): Guilhem Tamisier; Blake Rook; John Klima; Claudio Silva. Covert Art: Guilhem Tamisier
Social Innovator in Residence: Suhayla Bazbaz Kuri
Suhayla Bazbaz Kuri is a Mexican political scientist dedicated to human rights, social justice and participatory democracy. She founded Community Cohesion and Social Innovation in 2009 to strengthen community ties and promote inclusive, rights-based, community-led development across Mexico. Passionate about collective action, Suhayla combines research, advocacy, and capacity-building to amplify community voices.
Suhayla leads regional initiatives such as #LetThemKnowThatWeKnow, addressing power and information asymmetries affecting Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, women, youth, people with disabilities and persons in mobility in decisions about their territories and megaprojects. She also participates in Latin American collectives that advocate for authorities, businesses and financial institutions to meet their human rights obligations, and engages in demonstrations and dialogues on institutional violence against women.
Suhayla was the Spring 2026 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Suhayla on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhayla-bazbaz-kuri-63b94112/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhayla-bazbaz-kuri-63b94112/)
Learn more about Community Cohesion and Social Innovation:
https://cohesioncomunitaria.org/ (https://cohesioncomunitaria.org/)
Credits:
Host: Anne-Laure Fayard
Post-production: Valter Gouveia
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
Recorded at the Fidelidade Creative Studio, Nova SBE
12 Apr 2026
Legislative theatre: A creative civic practice to engage citizens and policy makers in social change
Katy Rubin is a Legislative Theatre practitioner and strategist based in the UK, and founder of The People Act (http://www.thepeopleact.org/) hub for creative civic practice. She works in partnership with local and national governments and community groups to co-create equitable and innovative public policy. She currently collaborates with cities around Europe to design policy initiatives on multiple issues such as housing and health care.
Katy is also a Senior Fellow with People Powered: Global Hub for Participatory Democracy; a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the LSE; and former executive director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. Her Legislative Theatre work with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority was awarded the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy’s 2022 award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation.
In this episode, Katy explained the origins (from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed) and practices of legislative theatre that she describes as a participatory democracy process that’s joyful, inclusive, and accessible. She highlighted the value and importance of being serious about fun as fun allows people to collaborate and stay engaged over time.
Katy stressed the importance to think beyond ideation, and make sure that things are in place for policies to be implemented. For her, it is key to success of legislative theatre as a community-based policy-making. Last, we talked about how it was essential to acknowledge power dynamics and create the conditions for (counter-) balancing them if we want to develop truly participatory approaches.
To learn more about Katy's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyrubin/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katyrubin/)
and check her website: https://www.katyrubin.com/ (https://www.katyrubin.com/)
and the People Act website: http://www.thepeopleact.org/ (http://www.thepeopleact.org/)
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Valter Gouveia
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
31 Mar 2026
Tales of the field: Wreetu, Changing the Period Narratives in Bangladesh
Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and people’s lives.
In this episode, we talked with In this episode, we talked with Sharmin Kabir, a social entrepreneur in Bangladesh. Sharmin shared with us how she founded Wreethu in 2016 with the goal to create a gender-equitable safe place for girls and women by educating them about their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and changing the Period narratives.
She talks about her human-centered approach, working with the girls in the community to develop the first comic book on puberty and period for girls. Very aware that gender-equity requires a cultural shift, she emphasizes her community-centered approach to the systemic nature of the problem: she involves young boys, fathers, and community leaders in order to create deep sustainable change.
To learn more about Wreethu, check their website: https://wreetu.org/
Follow Sharmin Kabir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharmin-kabir/
Conception, Voice, Sound design, and Post-Production: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard
Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard
Music : Guilhem Tamisier
Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard
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