Transdisciplinary Design

Clive Dilnot states that “Designing with consciousness for all of the parties involved becomes crucial, as the current environmental crisis blatantly emphasizes.  Persons in relation…

For the first time in history, the legendary die-hards from LambdaMOO, the online platform dating from 1993, decided to meet in person.

On that December morning in Tunisia, it was still sunny and warm when street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi was found at an intersection, after dousing himself…

The best part about being a student is perspective. Every new point of view is an opportunity to see afresh. As a student every new…

In the late last year, 37 year old Chinese novelist- Murong Xuecun, pen name of Hao Qun, attended a ceremony for collecting his first literary…

I’ve noticed that over the weeks that I’ve been submersed in the fast-paced – at times jaw dropping – life of New York City that…

So when the Spanish vessels arrived in America, they brought conquer, civilization, new ideas, cruelty, power, progress… and, new species. Mussels (and other little and microscopic ways of life) that were not originally from America, arrived sticked on the hulls of the ships. The fact that this living beings were attached to this crafts and travelled thousands of miles was an unperceived fact until some biologists and experts started studying the origins and development of some species. But isn´t it amazing how this little creatures got so strongly attached to the structure that not even years of travel and miles of distance made them let go?, Isn´t it amazing how strong their capacity of attachment and will is?

Shortly after his retirement, Sam Farber and his wife rented a home in Provence, France for two weeks. His wife had developed arthritis and the…

Out one night with friends I was explaining the Transdisiplinary Design program. I stumbled on this a bit because of the mercurial nature of the…

As John Thackara says, “This shift in emphasis from what things look like to how they behave – from designing on the world to designing…