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The desire for more is deeply designed into modern material cultures.

Our conclusion is that desire is hard-wired into the human psyche and into the design process. Both require stimulation and excitement and a sense of reaching for what is potentially possible. Neither is satisfied for very long. Today, both design and desire are pushing up against the edge of a future for nine billion on an overheated planet that aches for more.

If, “Design is the first signal of human intention,” the intended message of this... Read more →

The good life varies in its dimensions across place, time and culture. One size does not fit all. This issue of Catalyst: Strategic Design Review explores the meaning of the good life for people across our shared world.

CATALYST and Ruth Lande Shuman of Publicolor discuss how the interior spaces of schools have both profound effects on students and on learning experiences.

For more than 40 years, the “Barefoot College” has been working to improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor in rural India.

Rural Studio has been responsible for over 75 beautifully crafted architectural interventions such as homes, parks, community and public buildings for the residents of West Alabama that are plagued by poverty and substandard housing.

Over the last twenty years, BaSiC Initiative has focused its design and educational practice on 90% of the world population, which is plagued by poverty and social iniquity.

After the March 11th earthquake and tsunami impacted Japan, the plethora of online responses to the disaster and causes to send aid rippled out at a near equal pace

How can design transform teaching and learning so that it becomes more self-actualizing? The Third Teacher, a collaborative work by Bruce Mau Design, VS Furniture and OWP/P Architects, is an exploration of the link between the school environment and how children learn.

Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future is a simple, easy read, but with a slightly skewed point of view

Etsy caught my eye around two years ago. Etsy is like a huge online flea market, where... Read more →