12.15.12 | Opportunities
How to Deal with Old Electronic Products?
I’m an electronic products fan. I immerse in pursuing the various electronic products, which provide me with a high quality, and come to pervade every aspect of my live. My room is full of computers, cellphones, flesh drivers, and tangle USBs. Those electronic products are upgrading at a speed which is unprecedented, new generations emerging [...]
11.16.12 | Ideas, Opportunities, Transblog
A Cross-Sectional Design Approach
How the illustrated cross-sections of a building, and the assemblage of debris from a violent accident, exemplify the emergent practices of designing for complex problems.
When I was a kid I was a faux-vegetarian for about 6 months. I absolutely refused to dissect that darned frog in biology class, and knew that the only way I [...]
12.18.11 | Ideas, Opportunities
A Mad Tea (D) Party
“Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk?”
I bet you don’t. The Mad Hatter poses this illustrious riddle in the chapter ‘A Mad Tea Party’ in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The riddle is not meant to have an answer at all: As delightful as it is confusing, it is merely [...]
12.9.11 | Ideas, Opportunities
Don’t Panic!
Human beings are emotional creatures, often driven by impulse and instinct rather than reason. We tend to feel unsafe and uneasy in new situations and uncertainty, and our behaviour can be described to range from withdrawn and counterproductive at best, to scared and frustrated at worst. But no matter how much we would like to [...]
5.16.11 | Ideas, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Opportunities, Projects
Gathering Qualitative Data through the Unexpected
Intro: The Transdisciplinary Studio has been informed that there might be a strong possibility that next year our studio space might be moving…and it would be shared with another Program. So when this topic was announced, I was immediately intrigued and excited at the same time. Not only because the studio we currently call “home” [...]
Tags: Cultural Probes | Design Probes | Design-led Research | Qualitative Data
4.9.11 | Ideas, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Opportunities
t r a n s – b a l a n c e
Our Design-led Research class has recently been focusing on different design methodologies, and how they can usefully be incorporated into design research – particularly to get us ready for that big thesis… So when it came time to choose a question I wanted to investigate, I naturally gravitated toward the Transdisciplinary Design question like everyone [...]
Tags: collaboration | Design-led Research | Ethnography | Methods | Transdisciplinary
4.7.11 | Ideas, Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Opportunities, Projects
Manufactured Marrakech
by Jacqueline Cooksey & Minuette Le
photo credit: Minuette Le
Over our recent Spring Break, we took the opportunity to turn a trip to Marrakech into a design research project. With our trusty cameras in hand, we documented our experience, as any good tourist would do. Since we generated over 500 photos, we decided to use them [...]
12.9.10 | Ideas, Opportunities
Spaceship Earth Revisited
Interacting with Tangible Earth at the Cooper Hewitt Museum
Prologue:
Did you ever play with a world globe when you were young? Imagine having one that digitally interacts with you and indicates what the weather patterns are like in Tokyo today. It’s similar to what the I-phone can do but this is far more advanced. It allows [...]
