19/05/2025
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๐๐๐๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ.
In 2013, just two months into her role as a young faculty member at the Philippinesโ premier state university, HEEDโs founder visited Indigenous communities in the Calamianes group of islands in northern Palawan, then still recovering from Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).
Despite graduating from the countryโs top university, she stood on those islands painfully aware of a gap โ between everything she had learned in the classroom and what was needed in the field.
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐๐น๐ผ๐.
๐ฆ๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ท๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐.
The distance between knowledge and impact felt like a chasm.
A quote from Dr. Victor Hieser, written in 1908 about Culion, echoed what she was feeling:
โ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด ๐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ... ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ... ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ง๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ. ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐๐ฉ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ .โ
Driven by that conviction, she and a group of like-minded faculty and students began to reimagine what science, technology, and design could look like as a form of community service. In 2017, they launched an informal initiative within the university โ eventually offering an elective course on humanitarian engineering, social entrepreneurship, and design for developing communities.
It sparked meaningful ideas. But impact still ran up against familiar walls: time, bureaucracy, and misaligned incentives.
So we stepped outside our comfort zone and into the real, messy, unpredictable world.
We created ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ผ๐ โ an independent space where we collaborate freely with local and international partners, researchers, educators, and changemakers to transform how the world innovates for those often left behind.
๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ?
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๐ฃ ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น.
HEED Impact Studios builds pathways for research to move beyond publications โ toward implementation, adoption, and sustainable change. If youโre a faculty member who wants to explore new ways to bring your research to life, we want to hear from you.
๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ:
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