Design

A historical and economic exploration of how Bauhaus challenged growth-driven capitalism and why its principles are essential for sustainable design today.

Exploring how Bauhaus principles of durability and sufficiency directly threatened the growth-dependent capitalism that would come to dominate the 20th century.

Exploring the boundaries and limitations of biomimicry as a design methodology.

A seven-part exploration of biomimicry principles and their implications for human design, from optimization under constraint to the limits of biological analogy.

Exploring how biological systems prioritize adequacy across multiple constraints over single-variable optimization.

From brain-computer interfaces to emotion-aware vehicles, discover how cars are becoming our most intimate technology companions.

Car interfaces designed for pilots and astronauts ignore the average driver, creating dangerous usability failures that even airport signs avoid.

EEG reveals your brain works harder than you think, 'easy' drives create dangerous surprises, and navigation systems are your biggest stressor.

Navigation systems cause more anger than traffic jams, and your brain's workload during 'easy' drives is dangerously disconnected from reality. Cognitive science reveals the hidden truth about driver psychology.