5.17.11 | Transblog
Design Led Research Led Design
“How might the attributes and variations of visual representations of a process be informative and indicative about the community depicting it?” The research cycle initiated by this question led me through a journey that transitioned from research to design.
My research strategy started with a more deductive approach with a goal that initiated my research cycle [...]
4.7.11 | Transblog
The Facts…
Plan
How might analytical thinking and design thinking integrate to form a transdisciplinary approach to problem solving? ; It’s a large question and to tackle it I started by trying to get a better understanding of what is analytical thinking. To what degree can analytical thinking be separated from creative thinking? Where and [...]
2.28.11 | Transblog
An Interview with Tim Brown…
Click here for interview – Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO – WEF 2011 – Davos, Switzerland
I had the wonderful opportunity to interview via skype, Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, while he was attending the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During his time there, he was also [...]
Tags: design thinking | India | India Future of Change | Tim Brown | transdisciplinary design | World Economic Forum
12.19.10 | Ideas
Designing our way into the 21st century…
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”
- Herbert Simon
This statement has an ironic connotation for me, as it is precisely these design actions of the past, which have led to the current situation of global crises, which is hardly a ‘preferred’ circumstance. We have designed our [...]
Tags: Design for the 21st Century | In the Bubble | Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution | Sustainable Design | Transdisciplinary Seminar
12.8.10 | Ideas
Humanitarianism or Imperialism?
A workshop with tribal artisans of Jhabua,India
A Worm’s-Eye View…
We really look forward to our Lunch in Progress series, in which prominent personalities of NYC, in design and relevant circles, come to the TD studio to converse with us over lunch. Our first visit by Bruce Nussbaum led to an animated discussion on ethics parallel to [...]
12.2.10 | Ideas
Everyone’s a Critic …
Dunne & Raby Compass Table, 2000, Photo by Jason Evans
Critical Design has been gaining more and more momentum in the design circles in the past few years and lately it’s been a major part of the conversation in the Transdisciplinary Design studio. One of the dialogues involved the notion ‘Critical of the Critical’, based on [...]
