Transdisciplinary Design

What if the hidden forces underlying growing class divides among New York City humans could be surfaced through a dog’s sense of smell?

My first foray into the design world was through design thinking workshops. Design thinking, as defined by the founder of IDEO Tim Brown is “a…

Once I heard about the idea of Hostile Design, I couldn’t help but notice it everywhere.

You can always catch a sentence in Chinese newspapers that development is the first essential factor. The skyscraper built in a few months or the…

By Julia Szagdaj There are many struggles I imagined while moving to the United States as an international student but ordering a coffee with milk…

Connecting local knowledge to Design Practice.   Design is to plan for the outcome, according to the Cambridge dictionary. But as I ponder upon the…

Economics. The fabled art of money moves and Fox News spotlights. Talking heads who argue back and forth about GDP and “economic growth” and either…

This summer I made a pretty ugly zine. It took me about three full days of turning my bedroom into a total disaster zone of…