Transdisciplinary Design

“Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?” I bet you don’t.  The Mad Hatter poses this illustrious riddle in the…

What is Transdicsiplinary Design? This is a good question, with a long answer, which I’m not going through it now. But I can give you…

Human beings are emotional creatures, often driven by impulse and instinct rather than reason. We tend to feel unsafe and uneasy in new situations and…

Andy Rutledge entered a dangerous arena when he took it upon himself to redesign the digital edition of The New York Times. As if this bold move was not enough, Rutledge accompanied his design with fighting words: “News outlets seldom if ever treat content with any sort of dignity.”

Evils or angels we are? Are we rational or unpredictable creatures? Do we have free will or our life is predetermined? Too many people are…

‘Walking Broadway, 2009’ on YouTube In summer 2009, I traveled down all of Broadway from 220th Street to Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. It was…

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…

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs

After I finished my late dinner, I checked on the Internet to see what’s going on in the world as usual as I do. Click! My front page came – Yahoo! My eyes were suddenly captured by the headline- “Steve Jobs Pass Away in his 56 Years of Age”. All of the sudden, the article claimed an end of a generation of Apple. I was depressed about losing him and using his products at the same time. A lot of questions came to my mind about how he transformed our generations. Why was he so successful in delivering his products into our hands? What we can learn from his products and his approach to design?

I walked into the Guggenheim, and the walls were empty. An 8 year-old child asked, “What is progress?” and we started to walk. Destabilized but…

It sure encompasses a sharing based community. We hear this everywhere yet we barely understand it. “Share”. “Use, not own”. Simple words that could really…