Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: December 2013

The Choice – A retrospective analysis of wicked problems

By | Published: December 12, 2013

We are living in an increasingly complex world. Humanity’s destructive footprint on the planet earth is getting larger everyday. The artifice – designed and created…

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Let’s Get Reflective

By | Published: December 12, 2013

Some people like talking, some like coding. Me? I like thinking about the way people think. I am an observer, a perceiver, a reader of…

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Playing the Part of Expert and Ignoramus

By | Published: December 12, 2013

Globalization has designers consistently finding themselves participating within paradigms that they are not accustomed to. Globalization strengthens and extends relationships, both professionally and personally, across…

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Design as Patterns

By | Published: December 12, 2013

In the Marimekko College Workshop, “Design by Hand”, illustrator and graphic designer Aino-Maija Metsola, fashion designer Mika Piirainen and ceramics and product designer Sami Ruotsalainen…

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Design Thinking & Policy Making

By | Published: December 12, 2013

When we talk about design we often understand it as products, graphics, services and systems. But design is also an applied way of thinking, a…

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Pop Culturally Pro Social

By | Published: December 11, 2013

Popular culture is a very funny thing. It is not like some all-power authority figure tells the masses that Justin Bieber is no longer dreamy,…

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Who can save Detroit?

By | Published: December 11, 2013

  One thing I’ve learned since living in New York City is that space. is. luxury.  Period.  There are many examples where we’ve seen people…

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Transdogsciplinary Design

By | Published: December 11, 2013

I have always grown up with pets in the house. Birds, cats, fish, rabbits, you name it. But none of them have ever owned my…

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Freegan Easy

By | Published: December 11, 2013

All of this talk about inefficient systems and the waste created by them (most notably in the book Natural Capital : Creating the Next Industrial…

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Expensive Mistakes

By | Published: December 10, 2013

Some corporations are ignorant. In Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawkin discusses how the winnings and failings of a corporation depend on its ability to function as…

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