Research

Across disciplines, American designers, engineers, and the other professionals who construct the built environment are perhaps more concerned with infrastructure today than they have been at any time in the past century. This concern is sometimes born out of the recognition that American infrastructure is in crisis, that we are watching a slow disaster unfold at a national scale in individual events: lead in drinking water, decades of deferred maintenance eroding the capacity of subway systems, a bridge collapsing. It is also motivated by hope and optimism, by the belief that

The Magic that Makes the Whole:  Design Research and the Creation of Preferred Futures

Across disciplines, American designers, engineers, and the other professionals who construct the built environment are perhaps more concerned with infrastructure today than they have been at any time in the past century. This concern is sometimes born out of the recognition that American infrastructure is in crisis, that we are watching a slow disaster unfold at a national scale in individual events: lead in drinking water, decades of deferred maintenance eroding the capacity of subway systems, a bridge collapsing.

Forest for the Trees

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Networked Ways of knowing

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