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Decoding Design
Reena Jana
Reena Jana
Contributing Editor
Reena Jana has written for the New York Times, Wired, Harvard Business Review online, Fast Company, Architectural Record, Artforum, Time Out New York, Harper's Bazaar, and GQ. Previously, she was the innovation department editor at BusinessWeek. She holds degrees from Columbia University and Barnard College.
Reena Jana
Reena occasionally consults with companies, and when her writing discusses a corporation or other organization with which she has worked, she will disclose this fact. Reena does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo Kim
Contributing Editor
Sun Joo Kim is an architect and creative consultant based in Boston. Her projects include design and master planning of museums, public institutions, hospitals, and university buildings across the U.S. She holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sun Joo Kim
Sun Joo is an independent architectural designer who contracts with design firms. She does not hold any investments in the companies she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Beth Carter
Beth Carter
Contributing Editor
Beth Carter is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She has worked for Catalyst magazine, the New York Times Syndicate, BBC Travel and Wired. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and New York University.
Beth Carter
Beth does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers in her writing.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Contributing Editor
Mary Catherine O'Connor has written for Fast Company, Wired, Outside, Entrepreneur, Earth2Tech, Earth Island Journal and The Bold Italic. She is based in San Francisco.
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Mary Catherine has written white papers and marketing material for technology companies and will not write about companies with which is actively engaged. She will disclose any instances in which her work mentions companies for which she has worked. Mary Catherine does not hold any investments in the companies that she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 11-2011
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Preventive design in UK emergency rooms
Can better design keep hospital staff safe and waiting patients calm?
November 16, 2011, 6:22 PM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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Q&A: Dennis Urbaniak, Vice President, Diabetes at Sanofi U.S.
The head of the Diabetes team at Sanofi U.S. discusses lessons learned from hosting an open design competition to create easy-to-use disease-management apps.
November 16, 2011, 8:56 AM PST | By Reena Jana
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The Atlanta Beltline combines design, greenspace and transportation into one
The Beltline isn’t Atlanta’s answer to the High Line, despite having one of the same design firms at the helm.
November 15, 2011, 10:02 PM PST | By Beth Carter
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When biologists become designers of humans, then what?
As the tools and knowledge base for engineering genetic codes advance, the tools for designing the end product have limited usefulness.
November 15, 2011, 9:50 PM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Reviewing safe construction in emerging countries
A symposium at Yale University debated how to build safely in countries that have no building codes.
November 15, 2011, 4:42 AM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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Designing a cheaper, simpler prosthetic arm
An Illinois non-profit has created the Open Socket prosthetic arm, a low-cost, easy-to-use device intended for developing-world amputees. Its design and price tag will likely attract...
November 14, 2011, 8:30 AM PST | By Reena Jana
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Chicago funeral home design lets the light in
Funeral homes tend to be so…funereal. But clad in glass and Jerusalem stone, the new, airy home of Chicago Jewish Funerals breaks the funeral home mold.
November 14, 2011, 6:30 AM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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In Thailand, finding refuge in concrete viaduct
A makeshift community rises out of a flooded neighborhood of Bangkok.
November 13, 2011, 7:02 PM PST | By Sun Joo Kim
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Architect Edward Mazria awarded for greener building efforts
Veteran architect Edward Mazria is pushing younger designers to integrate carbon-neutral building operation into their work through Architecture 2030.
November 11, 2011, 10:53 AM PST | By Mary Catherine O'Connor
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Report details economic impact of stalled architecture projects
A new report from the American Institute of Architects outlines how delaying building projects is affecting the economy, as well as progress in eco-friendly construction.
November 11, 2011, 7:48 AM PST | By Reena Jana