Transdisciplinary Design

Monthly Archives: November 2012

Beep! Beep! Beep!

According to Professor Birgit Mager, who runs the Cologne-based Service Design Network, “Service design addresses the functionality and form of services from the perspective of clients. It…

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Groupthink, Citythink, Contact

A mariachi band enters your subway car. As the band strums its first notes, you can almost feel the annoyance of the people around you…

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Food for Thought

“Look, this isn’t fast food,” our waitress barked at us. “No. I get that but it’s been over an hour since we finished appetizers. I’m…

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Republicans – designing for emergence

  Judging by a quick survey of the Transdisciplinary Design class and Jamer’s colourful Obama T-shirt worn on November 6th, most people seemed to vote…

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Do you like my lover shoes “The Overlord and His Beloved”?

  I believe the best way to learn about the customs of a place is neither searching in the Internet nor joining a group tour…

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Scalable Localized Innovation

Photo: Design with the Other 90%: Cities Beginning last year, my interest in social innovation and using design to help raise standards of living around…

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Century of the Play

“How many kids do you want to have in the future?” I was talking to a friend one day. “Two or three maybe, and definitely…

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bottled water

The antagonizing build of the water bottle comes from its shape; its ability to be held by an average human hand, for it is designed…

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Open Source Housing

  The open source philosophy has been a consistent motivator of innovation and has given shape to some of our most prized networks and software…

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Dilemma of A Third World Country

In November 2009, a disaster struck the streets of Jeddah, KSA when a short but heavy downpour destroyed the city. That date is not one…

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