It Takes a Village to Make a Village

Northeastern University Social Impact Lab

How Trust, Patience, and Data Are Giving a Thousand Families Their Say

310 Renaissance Park, Northeastern University

The desertification of traditional grazing lands, victimization by predatory lenders, and urban encroachment have long threatened to displace semi-nomadic desert tribes in Albaydha, Saudi Arabia. Based on a model developed by Social Impact Lab Director Rebecca Riccio, social investor and human rights advocate Lynn Zovighian and and her family&#x27;s Beirut-based social investment firm The Zovighian Partnership are leveraging &quot;patient philanthropy&quot; to engage over a thousand families in designing and building a village to meet their housing needs.The participatory design process honors their cultural traditions while also addressing health, education, employment, and sustainability. Rebecca and Lynn will discuss systems analysis, multi-stakeholder engagement, participatory research, housing design, visualization and mapping, and multi-stream funding in the context of this project. Faculty guests: Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks; Liza Weinstein, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology; and Laura Kuhl, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs. This event is part of the Social Impact Lab&#x27;s weeklong series From Boston to Beirut: Reimagining Social Change in the Middle East, October 3-7. To learn more and register for other events in this series, please visit <a href="https://cssh.northeastern.edu/impactlab/from-boston-to-beirut-reimagining-social-change-in-the-middle-east/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bit.ly/boston2beirut</a>.

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