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Diversity: A quick recipe for a nightmare?

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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…

Thinking In Scale

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A couple weeks ago Jamer introduced the idea of scalar thinking, a tool or method used to identify and frame complex problems. Scale is a…

Emergent Memorialization

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AIDS Memorial Park, the design competition for which was unveiled in late November, will add a much needed green space to the West Village in…

Proof: 1+1=3

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DIVERSITY is one of the most used words in the past few years. We see it used everywhere from multidisciplinary companies to transdisciplinary educational programs….

Framing Barakat

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They had the same name. No one knew who inherited it first. One was a building, the other was a man, and they were both…

Subjective Solutions

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Bruce Nussbaum’s guest lecture brought up some great ideas and some interesting questions about framing and communicating. All semester everyone has been working on projects,…

But is it art?

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This fall I went to Minneapolis to do an exhibition and artist talk at a local college. These events had been scheduled for months prior…

Don’t Panic!

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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…

Devaluing Design

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The success of open software systems, such as the popular Linux OS or Mozilla’s web browser Firefox, make a strong case for rethinking the business…

The Turkey Dilema

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A couple weeks ago a very cool holiday was celebrated, “Thanksgiving day”, there´s discussions about if that´s a former Canadian or American tradition butthat´s not…