Transdisciplinary Design

Seminar

Llenando Lagunas con Ceniza / Filling Lacunas with Ash

The dominant narratives espoused by Mexican mainstream media and sanctioned by the government are rife with lies and deliberate lacunas. Mexico is currently in the…

What Does Speculative Design Mean To Me

The goal of design The once-popular definition of design is to solve problems, and now many people think that such a definition no longer fits…

René Magritte, La condition humaine, 1933

The Speculative Condition

“… no paradigm is ‘true,’… every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and…

Astroworld Festival

11 people die at the Astroworld Festival: Who do you hold accountable?

Eight people died in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas a couple of weeks ago, on the 5th of November. Trapped…

Systemic Cracks and a Possible Future

“They gave us the wrong room. I’ll go back down and talk to them,” my mom said as I scrambled for the TV remote. My…

Coffee, Conformity & Cosmologies

I feel for the mermaid on the Starbucks logo. In the past 15 years, Starbucks has risen to the top of the list of the…

A layer of hope on the canvas

How could I swim through layered histories of the past to propose new surfaces of possibility and hope? Does the secret to great art and design works lie in one’s ability to find the best proposal of an alternative way of looking, existing, and believing?

Dealing in Perspectives

“ Within infinite myths, lies an Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred and I, only two”