A growing body of current innovation research focuses on transdisciplinarity as one of the main drivers of innovation. But how do we learn from practitioners in other fields, and how can we integrate their multidisciplinary viewpoints and insights into our

Above image: Cover image for New Masculinity 2018. Credit: The Future Laboratory “Advertisers and marketers have invested billions in constructing an image of successful manhood that is defined by power and domination” reads the opening line of The Future Laboratory’s summer

The traditional strength of the UK in the field of education which give it a global presence in the hearts and minds of former students who have returned home, are increasingly under threat. Steve Phillips, Chair of English UK and

Above image: Patient at St Christopher’s Hospice being cared for. Credit: St Christopher’s Hospice While the issue of borders is currently igniting passions, one of our biggest crises may yet emerge from an invisible border we’ve constructed – that between

Among the many compelling and challenging essays in Anne-Marie Willis’ Design Philosophy Reader is Mahmoud Keshavarz’s exploration of the idea of humanitarianism, and how designers’ best intentions can be compromised.   “As humanitarian design also often comes from a Western-oriented understanding of

Nearly 50 years ago Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World took design to task for its social and ecological carelessness, but now a new design discipline challenges business-as-usual in design education and practice. Pioneers of Transition Design, Gideon Kossoff

With the range of stakeholders in any building project, the practice of architecture has always involved a high degree of complexity. The trans-disciplinary London based architecture and engineering practice Interrobang take this to another level, and the Founding Director Maria

...Actually it’s two words,“Ichigo Ichie”   We asked Yoko Akama, Associate Professor, Communication Design, RMIT University, Melbourne to reflect on a question inspired by the theme of Æffect issue 2 – “What borders do you cross in your practice or business in