Transdisciplinary Design

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Shedding Light on Design-Led Research

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In the beginning of our Research Seminar course, we were presented with the notion of Design-Led Research and Research-led design. One of our peers sketched…

Cards & Combinations

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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…

Tools of the trade

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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…

Food Systems Research Synopsis

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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…

Examining Pyschogeography

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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…

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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…

Lost In Articulation

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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…

Coordinating Collaboration

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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…

Disconnected—Out of Sight out of Mind.

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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,…

Food Fights: A big messy problem

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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…