For my “Design for the Century class” we were asked to compose a final paper “extending your Design Manifesto into the realm of design at a very comprehensive scale: our century and planet. (…) In this text you will construct ...

Sometimes one has to go all the way to another continent to learn to see whatever is going on in your own backyard with new eyes… During my very first week at Parsons I attended the one-week “Disorientation” session arranged by the ...

Along with a few of my fellow Trans designers, I attended artist Sheryl Oring´s manifesto writing workshop at MOMA. The workshop was based on her project “I wish to say”, where she travels the country with a bunch of type writers to allo...

In “The End of Capitalism (as we know it)”, authors J.K. Gibson-Graham challenge notions common within the anti-capitalist movement that argue that capitalism is such a hegemonic all-encompassing force that there is no outside to it.The authors a...

How might we simultaneously build social as well as environmental resilience, and strengthen the capacity of local communities to resist or transform the effects of gentrification and climate change and pollution? The above-mentioned topic was explor...

In “A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-) Recognition” we are introduced to the ambiguous world of data and pattern recognition. We are informed that the National Security Agency´s main problem is “how to extract information from the tru...