Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: October 2012

Do you know Jonathan Harris ?

Iwould like to present you today, someone who inspired me a lot and who has a huge talent : Jonathan Harris.

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Dolce Far Niente

The bus driver gestured to us to get off the bus. We gathered our bags and walked down the steps onto the muddy road. As…

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Heavy Theatre in the Big Apple

  In reading John Thackara’s In The Bubble, he often speaks of our decreasing lightness in what was supposed to be a new weightless economy…

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The Eyes of Technology

The Transdisciplinary Design program is made up of intangibles, where time is our medium. Coming into the program with a Fine Arts background, I understand…

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From Made in China to Created in China

  How to combine the essence in China’s traditional culture and modern design so as to realize the strategic conversion of sustainable development? China at…

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A World Free of Poverty?

If you have spent any time following this blog, you have most certainly run across Herbert Simon’s quote on the nature of design and the designer, where he posits “everyone designs who devises courses and actions aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones… design so construed, is the core of all professional training.” But what if the practitioner does not acknowledge that s/he is designing? Or, that s/he is even a designer?

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Responsibility // Designers and Clients of a System

  Although some young adults practice responsible financial decisions, there is a growing young community lacking the financial literacy to take on new, intensive, and…

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What will you be after you graduate?

I moved to New York City from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia two months ago. I would say, that was the hardest transition in my life. It…

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A Digital Renaissance

“It used to be, you didn’t become an artist just to become rich, you became an artist, because you had an idea or emotion to share, and that’s where we’re heading again.” Seth Godin, Writer

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Access to Tools.

The Milky Way. I think it’s safe to say that those of you reading this know what that is. Furthermore, you’ve probably even seen photos…

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