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Decoding Design
Decoding Design focuses on product, process and industrial design and architecture and how that approach can be applied to systems and infrastructure.
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.
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Biomimetic irrigation system wins James Dyson Award
The Airdrop Irrigation system, which condenses air to extract water in drought-stricken areas, is the winner of the 2011 James Dyson Award. The inventor, Edward Linacre, credits the Namib beetle...
November 8, 2011 5:06am |
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Reindeer pavilion wins World's Best Display Building 2011
In Norway, traditional and advanced technologies create an innovative timber structure.
1 | November 7, 2011 7:25pm |
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A desk designed to let cyclists work out while working
The Kickstand Desk transforms a bike into a stable office chair while continuing to function as a bicycle. It's the latest addition to the trend of workstation-fitness machine hybrids.
5 | November 7, 2011 7:01pm |
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Curvaceous Chinese museum counteracts city's rigidity
Rising from the dunes of the Gobi Desert and near the newly constructed Ordos City, the Ordos Museum will house Mongolian cultural heritage.
November 7, 2011 8:53am |
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Turning New York into the East Coast Silicon Valley
The proposals from Cornell University and Stanford University lead the race to launch NYC's tech campus.
November 6, 2011 7:24pm |
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Chilean designer makes new material out of discarded plum parts
Part of the Remade in Chile contest, an industrial designer has made practical, biodegradable products out of one of the country's biggest exports.
1 | November 6, 2011 6:00pm |
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Transforming the Chicago River with green design
Chicago's Jeanne Gang is looking to give the polluted Chicago River a deep clean and a new look.
2 | November 4, 2011 5:28pm |
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Q&A: How to avoid a bad pitch to investors, according to Pat Sapinsley of Good Energies
Want to get your start-up funded? Ditch the lengthy Power Point presentation and show you can "play nicely," says Pat Sapinsley, an architect-turned-investor on the VC team at Good Energies.
November 4, 2011 8:29am |
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'Radical' design awards mark innovations in snow gear
Goggles with an embedded GPS receiver and electronic display? Wearable air bags for avalanche safety? Snow-sports gear designers are turning skiers and snowboarders into finely-tuned snow-machines.
1 | November 4, 2011 5:42am |
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In Malta, saving ancient temples with steel and cables
Giant canopies protect the temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra from high-salt rain, large temperature fluctuations and damaging sunlight without touching the sites.
November 3, 2011 5:58pm |
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Designing for an aging population
How do we want to live for the rest of our lives and what is the shape of the community that meets the needs as we age? Architects Byron Kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri answer in an interview with...
2 | November 3, 2011 4:58am |
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Q&A: Beauty is key in sustainable innovation, says Samuel Cochran of SMIT
An aesthetic approach can help clean-energy entrepreneurs create "transformative" experiences, says Samuel Cochran, CEO and Co-Design Director of SMIT, the maker of leaf-like solar panels in...
November 2, 2011 8:07pm |
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Cal Academy's living roof comes alive
Architect Renzo Piano's vision for a green, living roof on the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is a blooming success.
1 | November 2, 2011 5:46pm |
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DesignPhiladelphia: renovating Dilworth Plaza
An exhibit that is part of DesignPhiladelphia features the innovative designs to make Philly's Dilworth Plaza a more user-friendly (and more beautiful) green space for residents.
1 | November 2, 2011 5:44pm |
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British architect reveals self-funded transportation hub proposal
Foster + Partners, the architects of Apple's new headquarters, reveal their plans for a major new transportation center in the UK.
1 | November 2, 2011 5:47am |
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Q&A: How biomimicry succeeds (and fails), according to Chris Garvin, Terrapin Bright Green
Biomimicry offers compelling and efficient strategies to help solve urgent design challenges. But it's a field that could also use improvement, says architect and consultant Chris Garvin.
November 1, 2011 7:42pm |
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Toronto protestors occupy yurts, battle the elements
As winter descends upon Occupy Toronto, walls ascend. Mongolian yurts are erected to house protestors.
7 | November 1, 2011 7:02pm |
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Bird-friendly buildings could earn LEED points
The U.S. Green Building Council is considering bird deterrence strategies to make buildings friendlier to avian populations and as a possible new LEED credit category.
2 | November 1, 2011 5:00am |
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Smithsonian American Indian Museum awarded LEED silver rating
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian was awarded the US Green Building Council's LEED silver rating, making it the first of the Smithsonian museums to be honored.
October 31, 2011 8:48pm |
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Europe's first bridge made from recycled plastic
In Scotland, a bridge made from recycled plastic leads the way to civic scale infrastructure projects using recycled materials.
October 31, 2011 6:04pm |