Transdisciplinary Design

For my project, I did not set out with a clear research plan. Instead, I conducted research using various methodologies based on need, including modified…

Choosing an appropriate methodology for a design research assignment can require consideration of some pretty odd details to the casual observer. It’s not often that…

Research Team: Jacqueline Cooksey, Eulani Labay, Steven Dale, Aabhira Aditya, Mai Kobori, and Bland Hoke First Iteration of Spark Game Food Systems are complex, interconnected…

Intrigued with the notion of how the physical environment affects sense of self, and is therefore expressed back onto the environment, we formed a group…

Our Design-led Research class has recently been focusing on different design methodologies, and how they can usefully be incorporated into design research – particularly to…

The Facts… Plan How might analytical thinking and design thinking integrate to form a transdisciplinary approach to problem solving? ; It’s a large question and…

It began with a curious conundrum that has become a reoccurring theme throughout lectures, readings and discussions: Designers don’t appreciate the way the non-design world…

Francis Carter, Eulani Labay and Kelly Tierney “Sometimes the only way you can get ahead is to fail early, fail often, and fail forward.” John…

The TransDesign program is constructed on the foundation of collaboration as a strategy for teams to address complex problems. However, students have focused on a…

Tracing our products, food and medicine with effective calculators that figure in human capital as well as dollars. “Current policies only institutionalize a global ignorance,…