Studio: Project Focus Refined

In the run up to Larry Keeley coming to speak to us in our studio we created a document to brief him in as quickly as possible and let him understand our current framing of the project. This was an

Studio: Heliopolis Ideation Workshop 2

  Taking what we had learned about running a workshop from the first we began planning our second. We decided to focus on how informal teaching methods might be used in a Favela. By informal we mean teaching that goes

Studio: Heliopolis Ideation Workshop 1

We invited the rest of the Trans Design class and a numer of experts in the field to our first ideation workshop for the Heliopolis project. Yasuo Yamada from Fujitsu was our technology expert, Claudia a technology expert from the

Studio: Intervention in Heliopolis, Sao Paulo

Heliopolis, is the second largest Favela in Brazil, with a population of over 100,000. It is a vast and intricate informal settlement that spans across 1 million square feet. Our team of designers from MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons