In my previous blog posts “A case study: The great white war and a dysfunctional organizational culture” and “On anti-immigration sentiments and insufficient liberal resistance strategies”, I introduce the idea of what I would...

Another reflective exercise as part of my Citizenship studio, was one of writing a citizenship story in relation to your own Self. I chose to write mine on the topic of nation as body, of belonging or not belonging to a nation, a national community, ...

During my Citizenship studio, we were asked to explore the idea of borders inspired by the following prompt: A border. Physical. Psychological. Metaphorical. Something to be crossed. Or not crossed. Who can pass? Who cannot? What is the key to cross?...

In “Visual and Spacial Politics” taught by Victoria Hattam, me and fellow students (coming from Law, Urban studies, Design theory and Anthropology), were challenged to consider the visual and spacial aspects of politics. Basically the aes...

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 ...

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...