Transdisciplinary Design

Seminar

Why Is Gift Economy More Needed Now

“We’ve all been a gift, the gift of life. What we do with our lives is our gift back.” — Edo Alex Gendler, What is…

Words & ideas can change the world

When I was 14 years old I saw for the first time (of many) the movie Dead Poets Society. I think it was the first…

Entangled Democracy and Our Role within it

“Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system.”            …

Architects of Interactions

The most basic purpose of architecture is perhaps to configure space through materials in such a way that it allows for human activities to develop….

Dancing in New York: Emergent Behavior from Ants, to Subways, to Cities

Dancing in New York: Emergent Behavior from Ants, to Subways, to Cities There is something different about walking cities – cities similar to New York…

The Open Source Process: A New Definition of Success

Open source is a process of making and using things. The outcome of this process is usually a software – but could it be something…

Could Nature’s order be the prescription for change?

The term bottom-up is typically described as a strategy proceeding from the bottom upward, and, useful in psychology as a way to explain how the…

Where do I find myself in this world?

Over the past months, the readings and debates have made me ask myself a number of questions around my profession. It is hard to answer…