Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: May 2011

What’s First?

By | Published: May 23, 2011

Note: No animals were harmed during this reflection process. I recently finished the first phase of research for designing a collaborative system that allows participants…

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When two approaches are better than one

By | Published: May 18, 2011

I teamed up with Minuette Le for round two of exploring the visual audit for our design-led research class. This was our second and final…

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Wish you were here… Greetings of the past for the future

By | Published: May 17, 2011

How can we use memory to construct a shared future view, leading to action? The next question is – whose memories do we hope to…

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Sensing the City

By | Published: May 17, 2011

A visual audit can be performed across a specific ideology, environmental signifier, organizational culture, or even a specific human behavior. Designers often use visual research…

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Design Led Research Led Design

By | Published: May 17, 2011

“How might the attributes and variations of visual representations of a process be informative and indicative about the community depicting it?” The research cycle initiated…

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Research Insights

By | Published: May 16, 2011

As modern technology and life spin faster and faster, at breakneck speed, all the while demanding that we keep up, new problems surface— creating a…

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Gathering Qualitative Data through the Unexpected

By | Published: May 16, 2011

Intro: The Transdisciplinary Studio has been informed that there might be a strong possibility that next year our studio space might be moving…and it would…

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Wrap Your Mind Around It

By | Published: May 16, 2011

You know those moments in cartoons when a character has an epiphany and a light bulb pops up in a cloud above their head? I…

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Narratives of Complexity

By | Published: May 15, 2011

Our design led research project has given us the opportunity to reflect on transdisciplinary design both as a mode of thinking and as a collaborative…

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Vignelli and Geertz

By | Published: May 10, 2011

I began this project by thinking about the different processes of Anthropology and Design. I was interested in how ethnography has been adopted or adapted…

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