Transdisciplinary Design

Seminar

The Time I Stole Someone’s Vaccine

How systems stop us from becoming better versions of ourselves 

Consciousness and Emergence

An exploration of determinism and its implications for us as designers.

Making Machine-Kin

Imagine a world where the air is filled with massive, buoyant jellyfish and fungi-like blobs floating overhead. Their proximity teases you, as they’re just out…

Design with the Theory of Evolution -Capitalism vs. Buddhism?-

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed…

Jorge Drexler Proyecto n

Writing new rules, writing new songs: emergence on Jorge Drexler’s music

Jorge Drexler is one of the musicians who has expanded the frontier of musical practice in Latin America. His work, based in many cases on the design and integration of deliberate limits and rules as part of his creative process, may perhaps inspire our practice as transdisciplinary designers and offer us a way to envision emerging futures.

the mockingbird sings (but whose song is it singing?)

It was a rite of passage into New York City, and I did what I had to do—stretched a solitary haul from a Trader Joe’s…

Fragile Futures

Studio DRIFT’s exhibition Fragile Futures is one of the reasons I believe art installations can be life-changing. As one enters the room, you dive into…

Does Mother Earth like to wear dark sticky lipstick? 

“We know that Mother Nature has a culture, and it is a Native culture” – Yupiaq scholar, Oscar Kawagley