Transdisciplinary Design

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Minga, a bottom-up project

Project Minga was born from the need of the pediatric Hospital Exequiel González Cortés to maintain the spirit of community of the hospital in the…

The Things That Climate Cannot Change

We have already warmed the climate by about one degree Celsius, and this one degree has already caused shrinkage in land mass, the escalating number…

Happiness, Materiality & Sustainability.

“Living successfully in a world of systems requires more of us than our ability to calculate. It requires our full humanity-our rationality, our ability to…

Be Careful What Your Systems Wish For

Systems, like the three wishes in the traditional fairytale, have a terrible tendency to produce exactly and only what you ask them to produce. Be…

When many have a will, there’s a way

The limitations of my field as an architect were clearly brought to light when I started volunteering at a foundation in São Paulo whose different…

Design and conflict transformation I: The future of scholarly knowledge

What is the future of scholarly knowledge and higher education? What are the changing contextual landscapes surroundings our university systems, the external pressures and internal…

Desire and Fear with global flows

In an age of multiple communication methods, we are connected with different virtual dimensions. Facebook, Whats App, Skype and so on. Technology has changed the…

Live With Less, Share With More

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint Exupery People lost…