Transdisciplinary Design

Design is reactive. A designer perceives a societal disconnect and seeks to objectify it.  By navigating through the design process a solution is synthesized.  An…

Nothing is original nowadays. Location used to be the only means of distinguishing original thought. This was the case for millennia, where massive distances separated…

Recently in the program, our faculty made a simple statement has had a surprisingly profound effect on me: You will never know enough about a…

“Design is the process of planning and devising how we transform existing into preferred situations.“ -Herbert Simon, Sciences of the Artificial Statements such as this…

10 individuals. 1 choreographer. 2 musicians and a videographer converge for 50 minutes to explore the boundaries of various social norms, including public, private, community,…

With our minds and fingers limbered up from a game of Jenga, we welcomed our latest lunch in progress guest Nigel Snoad. Billed as a…

We were visited on a recent Friday by our second lunch guest of the year, Jane Nisselson of Virtual Beauty. Jane is a film-maker, by trade, but that hardly describes her diverse talents adequately.

The carbon footprint of the 2010 ING New York City Marathon is overlooked by the personal achievements of its participants. The ecological impact of the…

Collaboratively authored by Howard Chambers, Francis Carter, Mai Kobori, and Steven Dale The inagural visualizing.org Marathon, sponsored by SEED magazine and GE, kicked off with…

The magic of collaboration is evident when the collective output exceeds the individual inputs of a team (buzzword=synergy). A successful collaboration is a measure of…