Tag: Design
How to design a public play space where kids practice reading...
Brenna Hassinger-Das, Pace University ; Jennifer M. Zosh, Penn State, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
A park bench can...
Fish fins are teaching us the secret to flexible robots and...
Francois Barthelat, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
How a professor learned to bring compassion to engineering and design
Tahira Reid, Purdue University
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tahira Reid leads a lab...
Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out...
Korydon Smith, University at Buffalo; Kelly Hayes McAlonie, University at Buffalo, and Rebecca Rotundo, University at Buffalo
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small...
A dismantled post office destroys more than mail service
Patty Heyda, Washington University in St Louis
The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of collapse and privatization. This comes after years of federal political...
Making the most of a tree epidemic
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell University and Leslie Lok, Cornell University
A large portion of North America’s 8.7 billion ash trees are now infested by a beetle...
Should architecturally significant low-income housing be preserved?
Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
This past...
If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing...
Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii
Pandemics change everything, including the way we design buildings.
After the 1918 Spanish flu and the scourge of tuberculosis, there was...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
