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Food Fights: A big messy problem

| Parsons

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…

An Interview with Tim Brown…

| Faculty News

Click here for interview – Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO – WEF 2011 – Davos, Switzerland I had the wonderful opportunity to interview…

photo credit: Aaron Cansler

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| External Partnerships

What is this buzzword, Collaboration? There are so many different ways in which we can define, describe, strategize, theorize, and analyze it. Natalie Jeremijenko once…

It’s a wonderful life

| Ideas

A box full of string, a 40’s classic and a raging faux fire set this scene. Welcome to one of the many contributions to our…

Beyond Collaboration

| Ideas

10 individuals. 1 choreographer. 2 musicians and a videographer converge for 50 minutes to explore the boundaries of various social norms, including public, private, community,…

Lunch in Progress 2

| Parsons

We were visited on a recent Friday by our second lunch guest of the year, Jane Nisselson of Virtual Beauty. Jane is a film-maker, by trade, but that hardly describes her diverse talents adequately.

Our Story: Visualizing.org Marathon

| Ideas

Collaboratively authored by Howard Chambers, Francis Carter, Mai Kobori, and Steven Dale The inagural visualizing.org Marathon, sponsored by SEED magazine and GE, kicked off with…

Motivating Collaboration

| Ideas

The magic of collaboration is evident when the collective output exceeds the individual inputs of a team (buzzword=synergy). A successful collaboration is a measure of…

In Conversation with Bruce Nussbaum

| Ideas

Several weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum graced the TD studio with his wit and wisdom. In a brief conversation, between carefully calculated bites of a Banh…

Parsons Grad Expo this Saturday

| Faculty News

November 20, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thinking about graduate school? The Transdisciplinary Design Program? The Grad School Expo & Open House at The…