Transdisciplinary Design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfU17niXOG8 Why can’t we be like those Coke commercials from the 70s and 80s and get along in harmony? Don’t we all just want to…

The design world seems to be grappling with describing its value beyond aesthetics. Designers, including myself on occasion, have casually thrown around the phrase: ‘Design…

Jamer Hunt, director of the Transdisciplinary Design program, recently introduced us to Evernote, a system for note taking and idea accumulation. As I set it…

//MOVES//MINES//EXTRACTS//SHOVELS//BURNS//WASTES//PUMPS//DISPOSES// MANAGES//COVERS//REIMAGINES//REMEDIATES//PROMOTES//ENJOYS//EXCITES //INSPIRES//SCATTERS// Inspired by Natural Capitalism (by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins) and New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation Community…

From constructing an elaborate meal, or chest of drawers to coming up with innovative hand washing solutions to decrease infection rates in hospitals – our…

In the Transdisciplinary Design Seminar, we have been discussing whether design can change behavior. The US Food & Drug Administration seems to think that it…

A few years ago there was a popular interest in contemporary ruins, specifically dead malls. I saw numerous malls from my childhood leveled in the…

‘Collaboration’ – a buzzword in business and education. Recently, collaboration has spread to lifestyles with Rachael Botsman’s notion of ‘Collaborative Consumption’. In companies the Work…

I’ve been spending too much time in the studio. I’m starting to see transdisciplinarians wherever I go… Last week some fellow TransDesign students and I…

The Scanning the Transdisciplinary lecture series came to a close with a fascinating pair of presentations featuring Nigel Snoad and Natalie Jeremijenko.