Ida Benedetto
Founder And Director at Uncommon Places Design
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIda Benedetto is a founder and experience design strategist with 13 years of practice crafting high-stakes moments for organizations, from Fortune 50 companies to philanthropic foundations. As Director at Uncommon Places Design she blends facilitation, experience strategy, and AI capacity building to help teams align and act in complex situations. Her work spans teaching at graduate programs and co-creating innovation methodologies—she has led classroom and executive interventions that translate research into practical cultural change. Past roles include directing dialogue design at The Rockefeller Foundation and designing national-scale convenings and company-wide conversations at SYPartners. Ida’s background in game design, social-impact startups, and ethnographic research informs a playful yet rigorous approach to participatory experiences and organizational transformation. Based in New York, she pairs academic training in design research with a track record of producing tangible behavior change inside large institutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Design Research, Writing, and Criticism, MA, Design Research, Writing, and Criticism at School of Visual ArtsBFA, Design and Technology, BFA, Design and Technology at Parsons School of DesignBA, History, BA, History at The New School
Portuguese, English, Amharic, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
ushahidi7
messaging4
python4
visualization4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
idamantium/uncommonplaces-jekyll
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:135 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
idamantium/esteem-engine
Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year
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