Transdisciplinary Design

“I’m not sure I ever want to call myself a ‘Designer,’ I said to a TransD Faculty member when I first entered Parsons to learn…

Several years ago, I spent 5 months abroad in Shanghai observing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctors practice acupuncture, massage, and herbal medicine. I was told…

While living abroad, I stayed connected to what was going on in the US through my Facebook feed and news coverage by the BBC and…

An idea from Julian Dibbell’s “A Rape in Cyberspace” struck me as an apt description of my TransD revelations thus far: after significant consideration, one…

“What does that have to do with design?” is a question I have had to answer multiple times ever since I started the Transdisciplinary Design…

Last week, while I was preparing for the debate, the philosophy underlying the theory of Bitcoin had intrigued me a lot—it is a decentralized, open-source…

As we analyze the history of humankind and the positive effects every Industrial Revolution in the past has had we are left with a positive sense of the goodness and benefits of each one.

Encouraging people to be more participative by using Open Source as a resource and organisational tool sounds great, but what happens when people who does…