Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: December 2010

Translaboration?

By | Published: December 14, 2010

Nothing is original nowadays. Location used to be the only means of distinguishing original thought. This was the case for millennia, where massive distances separated…

Posted in Parsons | Comments closed

On (Not) Knowing Enough

By | Published: December 13, 2010

Recently in the program, our faculty made a simple statement has had a surprisingly profound effect on me: You will never know enough about a…

Posted in Faculty News, Ideas | Comments closed

Mind Over Matter

By | Published: December 13, 2010

If there’s one thing that has come to define American culture it’s consumerism—it seeps its way into our lunch breaks, our late night clicking sprees,…

Posted in Ideas | Comments closed

The Preferred is in the Eye of the Beholder

By | Published: December 13, 2010

“Design is the process of planning and devising how we transform existing into preferred situations.“ -Herbert Simon, Sciences of the Artificial Statements such as this…

Posted in Ideas, Parsons | Comments closed

Beyond Collaboration

By | Published: December 12, 2010

10 individuals. 1 choreographer. 2 musicians and a videographer converge for 50 minutes to explore the boundaries of various social norms, including public, private, community,…

Posted in Ideas, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Student News | Comments closed

Imagining New Ways of Living

By | Published: December 11, 2010

Social innovations are now taking place all around us. Community-supported agriculture, co-housing, car-pooling, bike-sharing stations, community gardens, neighborhood care, and time banks are all prototypes…

Posted in Ideas | Comments closed

Lunch in Progress 3

By | Published: December 11, 2010

With our minds and fingers limbered up from a game of Jenga, we welcomed our latest lunch in progress guest Nigel Snoad. Billed as a…

Posted in Ideas, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Parsons | Comments closed

All Over the Place

By | Published: December 10, 2010

Since my arrival to the city four months ago, I have often been at a loss to as to how to try to understand and…

Posted in Ideas | Comments closed

Spaceship Earth Revisited

By | Published: December 9, 2010

Prologue: Did you ever play with a world globe when you were young? Imagine having one that digitally interacts with you and indicates what the…

Posted in Ideas, Opportunities | Tagged , , , | Comments closed

You Are Here

By | Published: December 9, 2010

Not long ago, I overcame a dependency on my map app. I was racing against the clock and had managed to head out the door…

Posted in Ideas | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed