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Ida Benedetto is listed as Experience Director & Design Strategist | Creating opportunities for innovation, insight, and change at Uncommon Places Design, based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at uncommonplaces.com, phone signal with area code 415, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ida Benedetto.
Ida Benedetto previously worked as Founder and Director at Uncommon Places Design and Faculty @ MFA IxD at School Of Visual Arts. Ida Benedetto holds Ma, Design Research, Writing, And Criticism from School Of Visual Arts.
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Ida Benedetto is an experience director and design strategist. She specializes high-stakes meetings, adventures, and celebrations, creating opportunities for innovation, insight, and change. Ida is most delighted when people surprise themselves by stretching beyond their known limits, and she believes good design can make this possible.She is recognized as an innovator in the field of experience design for creating intrepid adventures for cultural icons and transformative strategy sessions for heads of corporations. Clients have included BlackRock, Starbucks, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, NBCUniversal, Activision Blizzard, Ogilvy, Pfizer, Bayer, and Ralph Lauren. Her research on the design of transformative social experiences has been used in coursework at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU, among others. She has been featured in multiple New York Times Bestselling books, Businessweek, Fast Company, NPR, and the New Yorker.Ida is a 5th-generation New Yorker who loves to kayak and read library books. She is a volunteer conflict mediator for the New York Peace Institute.
Listed skills include Video Production, Digital Strategy, Old Media, User Experience, and 27 others.
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Independent strategist and experience design consultant serving clients in innovation, philanthropy, management consulting, and the arts, including training in AI literacy and usage.
Teaching Thesis Research and Game Design to masters students in the Interaction Design Program.
• Consulted on the codification of the namesake innovation methodology• Specialist participant in 5-day intensives of custom tailored cross-function teams to solve complex challenges for clients
New York, Ny
• Facilitate cross-functional innovation teams at client organization to evolve their culture from the inside• Lead agile-inspired innovation cycles• Lead qualitative research through interviews and focus groups • Direct insight share-outs and learning round-tables meant to change organizational behaviors and accelerate change
Co-taught inaugural course "Designing Organizational Culture" https://www.designingorgculture.com
• Directed design of convening for cross-sector (academia, government, and industry) experts influencing national COVID-19 pandemic response• Led event production teams to create strategic gatherings at the world’s oldest foundation• Refined design methodology and production process for virtual gatherings
Greater New York City Area
Designed strategic sessions for C-suit and employees at Fortune 50 companies. Example projects:• End to end experience design for the national anti-bias conversation for Starbucks, with 130,000 in-store partners participating on the same day• New standards for vulnerable conversations within a global 10,000-person organization, socialized through decks of cards• Offsite design and skill-building activities around authentic communication for a major philanthropic organization's 300+ employees • A blindfold exercise that helped a fractured executive team at a historic firm come to terms with their own problematic leadership behaviors
Greater New York City Area
NEW INC is a cultural incubator exploring new ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and design.
Greater New York City Area
Sextantworks created adventures in places you aren't supposed to be, inspired by generosity, location, intimacy, and transgression.http://sextant.works Press: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Businessweek, The Atlantic, Fast Company, NPR, The Daily Beast, Folha de São Paulo
Greater New York City Area
Co-founded design consultancy focused on games for social impact. Clients: International Federation of the Red Cross, Columbia Teachers College, the African Climate Change Resilience Network, the Innocence Project, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Global Spark, the World Bank's Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, and the Nordic Council on Climate Change.
New York, Ny
I worked with media and game design organizations to realize curatorial projects and events. For Games For Change, the leading global advocate for social impact games, I:• Curated 30 hours of programming for the 8th and 9th annual festivals• Managed production team, designers, and event staffFor Babycastles, an independent video game arcade gallery, I:• Forged strategic partnerships with the Museum of Art and Design, the American Museum of Natural History, the NYU-Poly Game Innovation Lab, and International Center for the History of Electronic Games• Wrote grants for event series and curatorial projectsFor PETLab, a public interest game research lab at Parsons School of Design, I:• Co-facilitated and documented game design projects in Abu Dhabi and UgandaFor Reading The Pictures, a progressive website analyzing visual politics, I:• Co-curated and produce online salons on contemporary photojournalism in the news cycle
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Year long fellowship to conduct independent research abroad in Ethiopia.• Primary partnership with video collective Sudden Flowers Productions involved ethnographic research on how autobiographical film production impacted the stigma experienced by AIDS orphans in urban Ethiopia
Thesis - Patterns of Transformation: Designing Sex, Death, and Survival in the 21st Century Available online.
Graduated with Honors Founding Member of the Parsons Student Senate
Graduated with Honors Recognized by the History Department for outstanding scholarship Granted the David Woods Award for Humanitarianism
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Ida Benedetto is listed as Experience Director & Design Strategist | Creating opportunities for innovation, insight, and change at Uncommon Places Design.
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Ida Benedetto is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States while working with Uncommon Places Design.
Ida Benedetto has worked for Uncommon Places Design, School Of Visual Arts, Mesa, Nobl Collective, and Hasso Plattner Institute Of Design At Stanford ( D.School ).
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Ida Benedetto holds Ma, Design Research, Writing, And Criticism from School Of Visual Arts.
Ida Benedetto is listed with skills including Video Production, Digital Strategy, Old Media, User Experience, Cartography, Teaching, Narrative, and Social Sciences.
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