Transdisciplinary Design

What does it mean to be a designer? I am certainly the least qualified of my blogging peers to access what makes a good designer;…

Read Donella Meadows’s Thinking In Systems and you can’t help but notice how just about everything connects to a scheme, intentional or not. For instance,…

Hardrock Revision will use a boundary-crossing transdisciplinary approach to envision new solutions for the inactive Ute Ule Silver Mine. LKA International, owner of the mine,…

“How might the attributes and variations of visual representations of a process be informative and indicative about the community depicting it?” The research cycle initiated…

I began this project by thinking about the different processes of Anthropology and Design. I was interested in how ethnography has been adopted or adapted…

Design led research is an eye-opener to the capacity of developing creative experiments to alter situations. In the last assignment, I took a long-view approach…

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred. -G.B. Shaw I recently had the chance to work with a non-profit agency. It…

From looking at the similarities between a graphic designer and video editor’s process I hypothesized  that similar process elements are transmutable across all creative fields….

This semester Clive Dilnot has taught a class called Thinking Contemporary Design, an open format class that adjusts each week to reflect changing topics and…

Borrowing and adaptation may be two hallmarks of good design practice—one that reevaluates and reflects while in progress. What happens when designers borrow methodologies from…