ESC Team

Meet the team behind the ESC Project.

Ethical Smart Cities Team
ESC Project Team
Adunni Rufai
Adunni Rufai

As a Design Strategist...

She brings alignment between design and experience, through research, creative problem solving, collaboration and paying attention to detail while thinking big picture.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

Cities should be designed and built to serve the human experience through systems, products and services, while maintaining the balance in the overall ecosystem.

Amanda Nobile
Amanda Nobile

As a Design Strategist...

She brings problem solving at the systems level with the ability to efficiently identify and articulate the opportunities for innovation.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

When cities understand and prioritize their community's values resilient cities are built.

Andrea Facenda
Andrea Facenda

As a Design Strategist...

She brings design thinking, design research, systems thinking, critical thinking and graphic design to generate creative and resilient solutions.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

The future of cities and smart technologies can only succeed if their users are prioritized and empowered to be the agents that transform their own evolution.

Céline Genest
Céline Genest

As a Design Strategist...

She brings a growth mindset with a research-driven, creative problem solving approach.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

The first step to become a resilient city is to learn from the community and others.

Eirene Keh
Eirene Keh

As a Design Strategist...

She brings design thinking, systems thinking, and design research through a background in the sciences and healthcare

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

All cities are smart. An Ethical Smart City is one that listens to and meets the needs and aspirations of its communities.

Hardeep Kaur
Hardeep Kaur

As a Design Strategist...

She brings transformative frameworks to life with a human-centred design approach.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

All cities do not have the same starting point, so no one solution can fit all. Cities need to begin by looking inward to understand the needs of their communities while learning from other cities that are successful to create their unique blueprint for smart.

Jordan Yee
Jordan Yee

As a Design Strategist...

He brings a combination of providing diagnostic and unseen perspectives though team provocation and pattern mapping.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

The application of ethical solutions is possible for all cities; regardless of technological maturity, even in its absence.

Maddy Lawrence
Maddy Lawrence

As a Design Strategist...

She brings a balance between systems thinking and detail-oriented work, responsive designs, clear communication, and plenty of empathy

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

To create truly resilient communities, a city must first understand what makes them unique and provide a platform to tap into their strengths.

Max Thomson
Max Thomson

As a Design Strategist...

He brings a mix of clarity, ideation and optimism to solve the worlds most pressing problems

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

Smart for what? Communities have to truly understand their challenges before deciding on a technological solution.

Nitesh Salwan
Nitesh Salwan

As a Design Strategist...

He brings a bird's eye perspective to complex design problems along with a knack of finding solutions to the minutest level of detail.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

Technologically advanced is not the only way to be smart. With a human-centered approach, even rudimentary can be smart too.

Rosanne Sauz
Rosanne Sauz

As a Design Strategist...

She brings a positive attitude to getting clarity on ambiguous situations, confidence in understanding the systems behind complex problems, and hope of what design can do.

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

Understanding the right problems lead to relevant solutions.

Samira Matan
Samira Matan

As a Design Strategist...

She brings a perspective that aims to address the root causes of complex problems using a blend of empathy, research, collaboration, and design

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

People matter. Their needs, experiences, and values. People make up communities and communities make up cities, therefore people cannot be erased from cities no matter how smart they are.

Tanya Goyal
Tanya Goyal

As a Design Strategist...

She brings an understanding of people, culture and relationships to craft innovative products and services

Key Takeaway on the ESC Project

Cities should be citizen-centric. It shouldn't be driven by technocratics and have a bottom-up approach in solving for the problems of the city.

IwB Faculty & Advisors

These are the faculty and advisors who help us all along the way this past year at the Institute without Boundaries.

Paddy Harrington

Nazanin Homayounfar

John Jung

Graeme Kondruss

Apostolo Zeno

Lauren Wickware

Monica Contreras

Devika Narayani Prakash

Heather Daam-Rossi

Simon Mhanna

Kristina Ljubanovic

Matt Hexemer

Victor Bogatch

Christine Leu

Alan Webb

Amanda Nastruzio

Luigi Ferrara,
Dean, Centre for Arts, Design and Information Technology

Ana Rita Morais,
Chair, School of Design

Design Contributors

Aby Abraham

Nargiz Mukhamejanova

Silvia Cordero

Stephanie Woulfe

Stephanie Ho

Thomas Clarke

Laura Casella

Michele Paludetti

Sponsor

Partners

Thank You

*The Ethical Smart City Project was produced for a College class project and is not an official representation of the City of Kelowna