Transdisciplinary Design

In “The White Savior Industrial Complex,” Teju Cole surfaces an unspoken challenge in voicing struggles surrounding oppression, discrimination, and racism: “there is an expectation that…

I’ll let you in on a secret: when I was looking for undergrad programs, I knew I wanted one thing. It wasn’t a certain major,…

As Transdisciplinary designers, we strive to and encourage others to work using bottom-up strategies.  In this way, communities that we design for will have some…

Since I became a Transdisciplinary Design student, I feel that everyday I have a new unanswered question that most of the times I cannot find…

I previously talked about self-resonance as a lens to design something great. Now let me speak further about a great design I hope to see,…

In 1996, the United States Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, declaring it illegal to transmit “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent” content over the internet. Obviously, this would not stand.

Do you think design interventions always have positive impacts upon the social system? Of course, all designers intend their projects to have positive impacts and…

Bosch, Hieronymus (1495-1505). The Garden of Earthly Delights. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Wickedness In the course of an imminent global catastrophe, how can we take a…