Transdisciplinary Design

In The Studio

Thesis Project : Hello Compost

Thesis Project by Aly Blenkin and Luke Keller The premise of our project is simple: food waste is valuable. And not just toward reducing our…

Thesis Project : Critical Creatures

Thesis Project by Rachael Fried “Critical Creature Cards” is a project investigating how we could use media to help parents talk to their young children…

Thesis Project : Striving Through, Designing for Social Resilience

  Thesis Project by Janet Lobberecht Striving Through focuses on social resilience as a way to survive a crisis. Social resilience is built in the everyday….

Thesis Project : Design Align

Design Align is a conflict resolution tool that utilizes systems thinking and storytelling techniques to engage audiences and foster understanding. Conflict usually arises because stakeholders…

Thesis Project : Healthy Dying, Designing and End-of-Life Care

Thesis Project by Aaron Cansler This project seeks to create a tool for sharing images with elderly individuals in end-of-life care in a way that…

Thesis Project : Come Together

Thesis Project by Stephanie Beattie Can a simple handshake be hacked to re-frame the conversations and negotiations we engage with every day? COME TOGETHER, as…

Thesis Project : Welcomesburg

  = Thesis work by Jacqueline Cooksey and Ben Winter Welcomesburg is a collaborative service-design project with the goal of raising consciousness about gentrification and…

Two Wrongs Make It Right

After the previous phase of my research on transdisciplinary collaboration (see my earlier post, “Questionable Methods”), I thought I’d failed in my attempt to employ…