Transdisciplinary Design

Last week a group of archaeologists, huddling around a small screen, watched closely as their ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) approached 2,500 meters below the surface…

From the vantage point of the individual, meme creation is an expression of the self; however, from further back we can begin to see a macrobehavior of cultural production. While memes continue to evolve, their makeup ranging from clippings of political diatribes to photos of baby animals making faces, their collective output is consistent. Steven Johnson explains this phenomenon of emergence as “self-organization… of disparate agents that unwittingly create a higher-level order.”1 Through the reactions of individual agents to environmental stimuli, meme culture has emerged as a litmus test of what matters to an entire milieu.

In Praise of Myth in Disorientation of Knowledge “Who is Worm?” he asked with some hesitation. “Worm lives underground. He is a gigantic worm. When…

Thanks to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, and the subsequent development of antibiotics, the treatment of infectious disease was revolutionized, life expectancy in the…

In her writing on the “Art of Commoning”, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize recipient for Economics, describes the practice of “commoning” as dealing primarily with “relationships and belonging…

Every single designer and to a certain extent, non-designers, struggle with the definition of design. Interior design is no different.

“For it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are — until the poem — nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.”