Transdisciplinary Design

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Responsibility // Designers and Clients of a System

| External Partnerships

  Although some young adults practice responsible financial decisions, there is a growing young community lacking the financial literacy to take on new, intensive, and…

What will you be after you graduate?

| Parsons

I moved to New York City from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia two months ago. I would say, that was the hardest transition in my life. It…

A Mad Tea (D) Party

| Ideas

“Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?” I bet you don’t.  The Mad Hatter poses this illustrious riddle in the…

Diversity: A quick recipe for a nightmare?

| Ideas

What is Transdicsiplinary Design? This is a good question, with a long answer, which I’m not going through it now. But I can give you…

Don’t Panic!

| Ideas

Human beings are emotional creatures, often driven by impulse and instinct rather than reason. We tend to feel unsafe and uneasy in new situations and…

Ant designers.

| Parsons

On that December morning in Tunisia, it was still sunny and warm when street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi was found at an intersection, after dousing himself…

The Other Perspective

| Faculty News

The best part about being a student is perspective. Every new point of view is an opportunity to see afresh. As a student every new…

Microblog vs Macroblock

| Parsons

In the late last year, 37 year old Chinese novelist- Murong Xuecun, pen name of Hao Qun, attended a ceremony for collecting his first literary…

don’t forget the monkey.

| Parsons

Out one night with friends I was explaining the Transdisiplinary Design program. I stumbled on this a bit because of the mercurial nature of the…

Student Housing isn’t perfect, but..

| Ideas

It sure encompasses a sharing based community. We hear this everywhere yet we barely understand it. “Share”. “Use, not own”. Simple words that could really…