Strategic Design

Patrick Pittman (PP), co-editor of The Alpine Review, sat down with the pair to talk about the benefits of a criminal mind, unconventional modes of understanding, and design and materiality.

Frank Chimero, a New York-based designer and blog writer, introduces ‘Appropriatism’.

Tracking interesting signals, ideas and questions in the field of economics and society at large.

A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.

A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.

A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.

A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism.

Design can help find new solutions for wicked (social) problems. But the power of design is not used to its full potential because it doesn’t get properly connected with the practice of public or private parties involved with the wicked problem.

To maintain any semblance of happiness, the skill most of us will require in the future is sensemaking, the ability to connect discrete insights and synthesize large quantities of often incomplete or conflicting information.