Transdisciplinary Design

During my TransD experience thus far, a conundrum has fallen upon me that leaves me questioning my place here. It’s something I continue to try…

In Rittel and Weber’s seminal article Dilemmas in the General Theory of Planning, they state that “a weak strut in the professional’s support system lies…

Early 15c., from Latin contextus “a joining together,” originally past participle of contexere “to weave together,” from com “with, together” + texere “to weave, to…

All over the past weeks, we have been discussing about wicked problems, emerging systems, bottom-up strategies and solutions, open source. Thus, I’ve been reflecting a…

About three or four weeks into this semester, overwhelmed by readings from all classes, two major questions emerged to my mind: why do we name…

The economic system is tied very closely to our social, environmental and technology systems. Making economic gains our baseline for measurements, obscures from us, the gains we might be able to make in the other systems.

What is open source? Open source is the idea that the source code of software should be widely published, so anyone can freely use and…

I’m in the Special Collections section of NYU’s library, preparing to commit a crime. Well, that’s an overstatement, though not much of one. I expect to…