Transdisciplinary Design

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I am Not a Designer

| Parsons

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;…

Gathering Qualitative Data through the Unexpected

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Intro: The Transdisciplinary Studio has been informed that there might be a strong possibility that next year our studio space might be moving…and it would…

Vignelli and Geertz

| Parsons

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…

Collabo Cubes

| Parsons

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…

This is TransDesign calling. Are you receiving?

| Ideas

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…

Make The Strange Familiar, And The Familiar Strange

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After the first phase of my research, in which I performed a visual audit of artists who visually represent complexity, I inverted my focus towards…

Hunches and Wanderings

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The neighborhood of Hunts Point in the South Bronx serves as our subject of external observation and dialectical practice. It becomes a laboratory for a…

t r a n s – b a l a n c e

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Our Design-led Research class has recently been focusing on different design methodologies, and how they can usefully be incorporated into design research – particularly to…

We know how to fail.

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Francis Carter, Eulani Labay and Kelly Tierney “Sometimes the only way you can get ahead is to fail early, fail often, and fail forward.” John…

Coordinating Collaboration

| Parsons

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…