11.15.12 | Transblog
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 the world grew tremendously. My interest sparked when I attended the Design with the Other 90%: CITIES exhibit held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Many ideas presented [...]
11.15.12 | Transblog
Tis’ the Season
“‘Invented tradition’ is taken to mean a set of practices, normally governed by overtly or tacitly accepted rules and of a ritual or symbolic nature, which seek to inculcate certain values and norms of behaviour by repetition, which automatically implies continuity with the past.” (Hobsbawm, 1).
Steven Weber’s book The Success of Open Source, motivated me [...]
11.15.12 | Transblog
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 one boy at least,” He answered with a smile, “so that I can play baseball and all the games with him.” Admit it or not, sometimes we are still attracted [...]
11.15.12 | Transblog
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 that way. The water bottle must, at least for the most people, enable its user to hold it with a single hand, which is why its geometric median zone is [...]
11.15.12 | Transblog
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
It’s been 17 days since Hurricane Sandy breached the shores of the northeast. Nearly all of Manhattan has power back, and the public transit is more or less running smoothly again. However, for many areas, things are anything but back to normal. Here’s my account of the first few days after the storm.
Day 1
Early in [...]
