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Food Fights: A big messy problem

| Parsons

Transdisciplinary: Is it a type of problem, the composition of a team, the strategy for resolution, or a discipline that transcends definition and by doing…

An Interview with Tim Brown…

| Faculty News

Click here for interview – Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO – WEF 2011 – Davos, Switzerland I had the wonderful opportunity to interview…

A Field Journal

| News

…The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct…

Technology and the right brain

| Parsons

“Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans’ ability to control or even…

A Pinocchio Story

| Parsons

When I see fires, floods, earthquakes or hurricanes ripping away people’s houses I think of my horror if this ever happened to my parents’ house….

photo credit: Aaron Cansler

col · lab · o · rate

| External Partnerships

What is this buzzword, Collaboration? There are so many different ways in which we can define, describe, strategize, theorize, and analyze it. Natalie Jeremijenko once…

It’s a wonderful life

| Ideas

A box full of string, a 40’s classic and a raging faux fire set this scene. Welcome to one of the many contributions to our…

Martha’s Guide to Morality

| Parsons

A few weeks ago I was able to tag along with some friends to a taping of the Martha Stewart Show. We dressed as Martha…

Information Visualization: some questions

| Parsons

As modes of externalized memory, information visualizations and photography have a few seminaries. Both hope to capture and communicate a representation of something—between people or…

You Are Not Alone

| Parsons

Shortly after getting a divorce, Bernd Klosterfelde felt alone and overwhelmed by the absence of sounds in his home. This could have been just another…