Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Design All Around Us

Perhaps it’s too soon, or too shocking. Some may even say that it’s in bad taste. So before I begin, let me say that there…

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Eco Not Ego: De-Centering the Human in Design

What would Water have to say were she at the design table? When we make plans to lay more impermeable concrete for a new street,…

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Designing to Combat Sexual Violence

When we spoke about Julian Dibbell’s article “A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens…

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How to Deal with Old Electronic Products?

I’m an electronic products fan. I immerse in pursuing the various electronic products, which provide me with a high quality, and come to pervade every…

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Imagination as Social Practice

  “The imagination has become an organized field of social practices, a form of work (in the sense of both labor and culturally organized practice,)…

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When to Say When

  “Hey isn’t this great, sushi in drug stores? Look at that selection. Gosh, Walgreens have really refined their taste, haven’t they?”   Every day…

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Trans-Christmas

I have six nieces and nephews.  Yes, I said six.  The oldest is five and the youngest is just four months.  Around Christmas time I…

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Resilience Vs. Efficiency

A network is simply a set of interconnecting nodes; exchanges are made through connections between the nodes and these two elements form a larger system….

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It All Starts with Small Changes

There are many skills and talents that are required to become a good designer, especially paying detailed attention. For many years, my habitual process of…

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The Rise of Furnishing Public Wealth

“Why would any person choose to contribute – voluntarily – to a public good that she can partake of, unchecked, as a free rider on…

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