Transdisciplinary Design

Ettore Sottsas believed that one of the most salient characteristics of an intellectual – and he was the first self proclaimed intellectual designer – is…

What is this buzzword, Collaboration? There are so many different ways in which we can define, describe, strategize, theorize, and analyze it. Natalie Jeremijenko once…

A box full of string, a 40’s classic and a raging faux fire set this scene. Welcome to one of the many contributions to our…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgLMA73XhLY It seems to me that the quickness installed by the Industrial Revolution, and later leveraged by technology and new media, has gotten under our…

Once I found myself asking a leading financial expert (who used to run a private equity fund): What was his trick; how could he make sense and see things just by looking at a financial statement or the stock exchange report? His answer was simple and poetic: “Let the numbers speak to you.”

In seminar recently, we’ve been discussing the book Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins. It’s an excellent book, which – even…

When someone designs a building that is cheaper to build, easier and less expensive to maintain, enjoyed by all who inhabit it, and is better…

Recently in the program, our faculty made a simple statement has had a surprisingly profound effect on me: You will never know enough about a…

If there’s one thing that has come to define American culture it’s consumerism—it seeps its way into our lunch breaks, our late night clicking sprees,…

“Design is the process of planning and devising how we transform existing into preferred situations.“ -Herbert Simon, Sciences of the Artificial Statements such as this…