Transdisciplinary Design

Seminar

Dare to Imagine

Christian Smirnow’s last blog post: “It’s a matter of reflective capabilities” discussed the space our program allows him for critical reflection on today’s systems and…

Prejudice, Democracy and Design

“ The ideoscapes are composed of elements of the enlightenment worldview, which consists of a chain of ideas, terms, and images, including freedom, welfare, rights,…

Speculative Design as Education

“Although [works of fiction] do not offer design proposals they do provide fascinating briefs,” state Dunne, Anthony, and Raby in Speculative Everything. They go on…

Social Dreaming: Designing to Challenge and Transform Mindsets

A week ago, western culture was directly targeted with the attacks in Paris. This sparked a bigger debate about the Syrian crisis and positions on…

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Bridging the Gap

How can we begin to harness the hyphen?

Making our future together

  “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” –Peter Drucker Who we are and how we define our world all depend…

Speculating Beyond the Possible

Mahatma Gandhi once said, the “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” As humans, we have always been very…

Can We Bring Social Changes As a Designer?

When I was a senior in high school, I usually went to the school by 7:20AM and got back home at almost 11PM after finishing…