Transdisciplinary Design

I sat on a plastic chair at a busy cafe in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, and checked my dusty watch over and over again,…

Recently, while reading Daniela Rosen’s “Critical Fabulations” I found that the themes and concepts explored in the book truly struck a chord with me. Being…

Photo: The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/fashion/kim-kardashian-west-kimono-cultural-appropriation.html/ Since I came to New York, I saw a lot of Japanese words such as sushi, ramen, manga, anime,…

There is perhaps no more visceral example of the contrast between the worldview of the designer and user than the band-aid. Dieter Rams, a German…

Modernity is always a fascinating word for me. I have always had trouble explaining what is modern for me, Is it the new or novel…

Architecture in Everyday Objects The architect Sou Fujimoto created an installation called: “Architecture is Everywhere”, which is being presented these days in the exhibition “Surrounds 11…

Will there be a non-anglicized name that is culturally significant, easy to pronounce, and avoids us from becoming systemically discriminated?

In times when our lives revolve around individual convenience and productivity, what does this act of ‘making kin’ with our neighbors mean?