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Alumni Sean Baker Featured in Metropolis Magazine

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Images courtesy of Sean Baker Sean Baker, a Transdisciplinary graduate from the class of ’14, has been featured within the October issue of Metropolis Magazine with…

Knight Foundation supports first Urban Prototyping Lab

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Can design be a catalyst for community-driven change in cities? We think it can, and with the support of a Knight Foundation grant, 8 of…

Making work fashionable: a story of design social intervention in Argentina

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Martín Churba, an Argentine couture designer that has been called “fashion’s spoiled child” for his creative and innovative designs, was acclaimed once again in Buenos…

A cup of chai’s meaning: from Mumbai to New York

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By Ricardo Dutra Goncalves Once I had a great friend and personal mentor coming over for breakfast, when we were also supposed to discuss about…

Systemic change through ritual

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by Alix Gerber A friend and I have been having this debate for at least a year: he argues that some people are inherently “bad”, committing acts that…

Gentrfication

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  As soon as I started this semester, I was introduced a new English word that I have never heard before: Gentrification. I guess I…

Embracing the Shift: Nonprofits and Designers Chart a New Direction

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Last week I found myself at the New York Design Center for desigNYC’s Healthy Communities exhibit. I thought I knew what to expect; and a…

The Design All Around Us

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Perhaps it’s too soon, or too shocking. Some may even say that it’s in bad taste. So before I begin, let me say that there…

Eco Not Ego: De-Centering the Human in Design

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What would Water have to say were she at the design table? When we make plans to lay more impermeable concrete for a new street,…

Designing to Combat Sexual Violence

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When we spoke about Julian Dibbell’s article “A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens…