October 2024 / Artist Ownership
CCI at DWeb Camp 2024
Reflections on our Co-Design and path forward
Val Elefante
Val Elefante is Enterprise Development Consultant for Research to Impact Lab’s incubation for a Gig Worker Savings Club at the Center for Cultural Innovation.
Systemic change to legitimize gig work won’t come from band-aid solutions.
Jennelyn Tumalad Bailon and Val Elefante presenting at the Redwood Grove at the 2024 DWeb Camp in Navarro, California. Photo credit: Jessica Mele
Research to Impact Lab’s Senior Program Associate, Jennelyn Tumalad Bailon, and Enterprise Development Consultant, Val Elefante, facilitated a co-design for our gig worker savings club incubation project, currently known as “Cookie Jar Collective.”
We welcomed 27 participants interested in helping us build a product that could facilitate shared accountability, community, and collective power centered on growing savings for gig workers.
Participants heard an overview of the purpose and journey CCI has taken to reach this point. They also spent time brainstorming and drawing different aspects of the product ranging from governance, UX design, and tech stack.
Watch the in-depth overview of our presentation, key takeaways, and next steps for this project in the video below.