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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Embracing the Shift: Nonprofits and Designers Chart a New Direction

Last week I found myself at the New York Design Center for desigNYC’s Healthy Communities exhibit. I thought I knew what to expect; and a…

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Why Heritage is Important to Design: and what we can learn from it.

Our histories define us, shapes us, inspire us, and influence our motivations. But our histories are not definitive of our futures; they are just the…

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Here’s another problem…

I came across this photo-quote on tumblr I smirked at it a bit with realization that in all the readings assigned so far, one point…

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The Look

    John Thackara notes in his book In the Bubble that “[w]e have thrust bad things in life—old age, death, pain, handicap—onto doctors so…

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If life itself is a wicked problem…

 By Lillian Shi Tong, for TransD Seminar 1   According to Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber, science is bond to fail when confronting wicked problems,…

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System Thinking: To See a World in a Grain of Sand

When Isaac Newton holds a simple dropped apple and unseals the most mysterious principle of nature, system could be simpler than you see, but also…

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Museum Hack: A Critical Reframing of the Museum Experience

By Mollie West, Transdisciplinary Design MFA ’15 “Everyone should first connect to the Met’s free wifi, and then let’s all bring it in for a…

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A Trans* TransBlog

Let’s talk about sex. Well, more so about sexuality—a topic I bet you didn’t expect to find on a Design Strategies blog for Parsons the…

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So what is it about traveling?

I am passionate about traveling and if you were to ask me what I would like to do in life, I would respond that I…

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Kimchi In The Bubble

During a phone call with my mother, she casually mentioned her plan to mail homemade kimchi to my apartment. Lightheartedly, I responded, “OK, thank you”…

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