Discursive design

One of ten brilliant innovations from our 2015 Invention Awards

“When I walk down the street I want my smartphone to be doing searches constantly,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in 2010, according to an anecdote in Eli Pariser’s 2011 book The Filter Bubble. “‘Did you know?’ ‘Did you know?’ ‘Did you know?’ ‘Did you know?’”

the one-hundred 1:1 models comprising the polluted water popsicles project showcases—in a pleasing aesthetic way—one of the biggest environmental problems.

Tenzan Eaghll College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University This semester I am teaching half a PhD seminar on ‘Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion.’ I am sharing the seminar with one of my colleagues and my half of the course is titled ‘Discourse Analysis.’ I chose the topic of discourse analysis over a myriad of other possible options because it seems to me like the elemental contemporary approach to the study of religion. It doesn’t matter what a students area of specialty…

About 414 pounds (188 kg) of food is discarded for each person in the United States each year at home, in stores, and in restaurants. That’s 1,656 pounds (751 kg) for a family of four—the amount in this sculpture.

For our annual orientation futuring workshop, the Class of 2018 engaged in an all-day speculative design charette led by the Extrapolation Factory's Chris Woebken and PoD graduate Steve Hamilton. Following a lecture presentation on conceptual frameworks around the futuring and speculation, the stude

After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her struggle with speaking her mind.

Dunne and Raby's Teddy Bear Blood Bag You do what? "So, you design factory machines? Is that what you mean?" Many of us have switched from calling ourselves "industrial designers" to saying that we are "product designers." But the difficulty grows if your design work does not fall squarely inside the commercial...

Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.Good design provides so...