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Essays
08.26.10: Kate Howe
The Insignificance of a Logo (Even When Significant)On the futility of designing the symbol for a controversial religious organization.
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08.23.10: Ramsey Ford
What Social Entrepreneurship Can Teach Social DesignEssay on adapting principles of social entrepreneurship to social design.
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08.16.10: Ashish Nangia
The Town That Corbusier BuiltOn the conflict between architectural appreciation and security in Chandigarh, India.
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08.02.10: Jen Roos
Cup of HeroesThoughts on design, sports, and the author's return to a South African township during the World Cup.
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07.29.10: Maria Popova
The Language of Design ImperialismEssay on the flawed language used to describe humanitarian design efforts and what it indicates.
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07.15.10: Robert Fabricant
In Defense of Design ImperialismWeighing in on a controversy, frog design's Robert Fabricant supports global design interventions.
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07.12.10: Constantin Boym
Teaching in a Time of UncertaintyMeditation on the doubt creeping into today's design practice.
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06.17.10: Krista Donaldson
The Real Cost of FreeDo you give the poor farmer a pump if you know it will transform her crops and move her family from just scraping by into the middle class? It’s hard to say no, isn’t it? But you should.
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05.26.10: John Thackara
What Should Design Critics Write About?Address to MFA students in the School of Visual Arts' Design Criticism program, April 30, 2010.
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05.24.10: Ken Botnick and Ira Raja
The Subtle Technology of Indian ArtisanshipHow India's craftsmen offer lessons in design thinking.
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03.29.10: Azby Brown
Bent by the SunWhat a longtime American-born resident of Japan has learned about his adopted country's ancient practice of sustainability.
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02.22.10: Justin Kemerling
The Volunteer Design Chronicles (Lincoln, NE)Community-focused pro-bono design activities in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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01.07.10: Karrie Jacobs
A President and His Dog, Part 2Karrie Jacobs analyzes the Obama administration's website.
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12.04.09: Jane Withers
In Praise of ShadowsEssay adapted from "In Praise of Shadows: New European Lighting Design," presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 19–October 18, 2009.
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11.09.09: Mark Dery
Dawn of the Dead MallMark Dery surveys the landscape of failing malls and speculates about the future means and venues of mass consumption.
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10.19.09: Fred Ritchin
Exposure TimeExcerpt from After Photography by Fred Ritchin on technology's potential to make the photographic image less controlling and more revealing.
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10.13.09: Andy Chen
The Value of EmpathyAndy Chen responds to the debate between David Stairs and Valerie Casey on the recent surge of social design activity.
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09.09.09: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer
The Doers ClubDesign prodigy William Kamkwamba recalls building a windmill to generate electricity for his village in Malawi, Africa.
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08.23.09: Michael Scharf
Rainfall Is Likely to OccurThe bourgeois quarters have their own hybrid neo-Tibeto-Hokkaido-Kashmiri-Brit architecture — tin-roof Tudors with peaks — yet "paddy" (i.e., rice) is still grown within the city limits, if in just a few spots.
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07.05.09: William Drenttel
Report from Hale County, AlabamaGreensboro Alabama is a city of contrasts, and a place where new design thinking is revealing itself in a surprising number of ways. An occasional report from Winterhouse Institute on its Design for Social Impact & Innovation Project.
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