For those who were not able to attend the second Design Dialogue in the Scanning the Transdisciplinary lecture series, we now have available for you to watch.
A recent article the Architects’ Newspaper (here) explored a topic that we’ve been exploring through The New School’s Design and Social Science Committee’s faculty seminar entitled Infrastructure: Complexity, Risk and Design.
We kicked off the launch of the Transdisciplinary Design program with a dynamic dialogue between Anna Valtonen, Rector of Umea Institute of Design, and Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks. We’ve got the whole event for you to view.
MFA Director Jamer Hunt takes to the street to see what people are thinking about transdisciplinary design.
Earlier this January 2010 the Board of Education of the State of New York accredited the MFA in Transdisciplinary Design here at Parsons The New School for Design. This is a fabulous way to start a new decade.
If collaborative projects become the new norm, how will students and faculty and professionals showcase “their” work when it is consistently woven together with the work of others?
The paradox that confronts us all at the moment is the dazzling ability to put our hands on so much information and so many connections combined with the need to make slow, thoughtful, and hard-to-see connections between these bits of information.
I think we need to start to develop more critical tools, faculties, and vocabulary when it comes to the practice of mapping. Without question mapping is a powerful lens through which to organize information, but what distinguishes penetrating from inadequate maps?