Transdisciplinary Design

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Designing for Financial Empowerment (DFE) nominee for the Core77 Design Awards 2016

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Designing for Financial Empowerment (DFE), a cross-sector collaboration between the City of New York, Citi Community Development and the Parsons DESIS Lab , explores how service design can…

The Rise of Furnishing Public Wealth

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

Responsibility // Designers and Clients of a System

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

Cash For Your Art

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In an article entitled “Can Anyone Be a Designer” (the New York Times, Alice Rawsthorn, October 2, 2011) Rawthson writes about “Unnamed,” an exhibition in…

What’s First?

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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…

When two approaches are better than one

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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…

Sensing the City

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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…

Research Insights

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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…

Gathering Qualitative Data through the Unexpected

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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…

a practitioner reflects…

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I am a designer. Therefore, when asked, “What if designers were educated to be very articulate about how they design rather than celebrating the artifacts…