Transdisciplinary Design

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What Does it Mean to Design for Human Behavior?

A couple of years ago, I met Iris Bohnet, co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, at a talk…

The era of VUCA; not to be the banality of evil

The era of VUCA We are living in the current era of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Originally, the word emerged as a military…

As Little Design as Possible

Deiter Rams was an architect turned product designer that made not only incredible impacts at Braun, a German products company, in the late 1950s through…

New Frontiers: Masculine Spaces (Business as Usual)

“It is through processes of symbolic violence that power imbalances are naturalised: “the most intolerable conditions of existence can often be perceived as acceptable and…

Thought Experiment: An Innovation Pause

Innovation and Inequality Innovation, despite being an economic driver, is inherently also responsible for inequality. Innovation increases social and economic inequalities[1] whether that be in…

Press Release: New Grant Available for Nonprofits

Press Release: New Grant Available for Nonprofits November 9, 2030

The problem with frames (framing the problem): it’s a man’s, man’s, man’s world

 “Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.” ― Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning I’m tired. For most of the world,…

RADICAL ( ANTI ) DESIGN : AN ARGUMENT AGAINST MODERNIST (SPECULATIVE) DESIGN

In 1922 Le Corbusier wrote ‘Architecture ou Révolution’… ‘It is the question of building which lies at the root of the social unrest of today