Transdisciplinary Design

Parsons

An Interview with Tim Brown…

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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

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…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

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“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

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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….

Martha’s Guide to Morality

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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

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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

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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…

Design & Disposition

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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…

Translaboration?

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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…

The Preferred is in the Eye of the Beholder

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“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…