Transdisciplinary Design

The world is becoming more and more globalized by multinational corporations, high technologies, credit cards, tourism, fast food and so on. For example, McDonalds is…

   Globalization is a funny thing. The last three years that I spent in Peace Corps Lesotho highlighted globalization’s ability to seemingly increase random series…

I’ve bludgeoned a few hookers in my day. I’ve been romantically involved with a 106 year old hermaphrodite, stabbed a Pope, poisoned government officials, run…

  If you’ve taken classes at a university during the last few years, you can probably picture this familiar scene: It’s midnight the night before…

This past Wednesday night, a resounding victory echoed from the streets of New York City up through the vast and endless cosmos shaking the very…

Our histories define us, shapes us, inspire us, and influence our motivations. But our histories are not definitive of our futures; they are just the…

For the second year running, two Parsons Transdisciplinary Design students are finalists in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design awards. Last year, Howard Chambers (’12) and…

  “The imagination has become an organized field of social practices, a form of work (in the sense of both labor and culturally organized practice,)…

“Why would any person choose to contribute – voluntarily – to a public good that she can partake of, unchecked, as a free rider on…

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