Transdisciplinary Design

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…