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Steve Ouditt has been creating art and design for social change for over thirty years. He has lived and worked in several countries and has received scholarships, grants and commissions for projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, Iceland, The Netherlands, Germany, China, India, Cuba, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago.
Steve is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts, New York; Goldsmiths College, University of London; Jan van Eyck Akademie, The Netherlands and Entrepreneurial Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad, India.
In 2017 he completed the highly regarded Behaviour Design Masterclass conducted by Stanford University's Professor BJ Fogg’s team in Nevada, USA.
In August 2018, Steve spent a week at the London offices of Ogilvy Behavioural Science Projects working alongside several of their Behavioural Strategists on projects related to behaviour change in public policy in the Caribbean; and in September 2018 he was awarded a place on the prestigious Wellcome Collection’s ‘Ideas Hub’, in London.
Steve is a senior lecturer in art and design at the UWI, St. Augustine, and a Senior Behavioural Designer at Vessel Health Communication, Trinidad and Tobago, where he leads his team designing Behaviour Change interventions for population health and public sector challenges.
Ayodhya Ouditt is an industrial designer, illustrator, writer, and teacher. As a recipient of four scholarships from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, including the Ministry of Sport and Culture Full Tuition Award, and a Development Needs Full Tuition Scholarship from the Scholarship and Advanced Training Division, he earned his BFA in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he focused on design for social change. His thesis project was a prospective medical product centred around hand hygiene in hospitals.
He has worked as a contributing columnist for the Trinidad Newsday, a copywriter at Collier Morrison Belgrave, a project coordinator at NIHERST (National Institute for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology), and an illustrator for NPR's science blogs, as part of the Maharam STEAM Fellowship in Washington DC. He has also hosted international STEAM workshops with teachers at the Korean Gifted Summer Institute (St. John's University, NYU), on the importance of fostering creativity in education.
He also teaches art at Maria Regina Grade School, and gives art classes and portfolio consultations to other artists of all ages.
