Transdisciplinary Design

Several weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum graced the TD studio with his wit and wisdom. In a brief conversation, between carefully calculated bites of a Banh…

November 20, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thinking about graduate school? The Transdisciplinary Design Program? The Grad School Expo & Open House at The…

We were very fortunate to inaugurate our Friday lunch visits with Bruce Nussbaum, Innovation Guru. We’ve started this series to introduce the students to the…

‘Collaboration’ – a buzzword in business and education. Recently, collaboration has spread to lifestyles with Rachael Botsman’s notion of ‘Collaborative Consumption’. In companies the Work…

I’ve been spending too much time in the studio. I’m starting to see transdisciplinarians wherever I go… Last week some fellow TransDesign students and I…

A recent article the Architects’ Newspaper (here) explored a topic that we’ve been exploring through The New School’s Design and Social Science Committee’s faculty seminar entitled Infrastructure: Complexity, Risk and Design.

We kicked off the launch of the Transdisciplinary Design program with a dynamic dialogue between Anna Valtonen, Rector of Umea Institute of Design, and Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks. We’ve got the whole event for you to view.

Earlier this January 2010 the Board of Education of the State of New York accredited the MFA in Transdisciplinary Design here at Parsons The New School for Design. This is a fabulous way to start a new decade.

If collaborative projects become the new norm, how will students and faculty and professionals showcase “their” work when it is consistently woven together with the work of others?

When I’m giving presentations about the launch of the TransDesign program, I often refer to an example from my earlier teaching to describe how we…