<p>What does it take to implement future-facing design and concepts? What are the implications? Melodie Yashar is a co-founder, designer, researcher, instructor, and technologist who works with cutting edge technologies, such as 3D printing and robotics, with the focus on human factors, to create space architecture for human exploration and settlement on the moon and Mars.</p>

005: X is Making ft. Lilly Irani

Given the opportunity, designers will endlessly debate.

Perhaps this is because practices of design fundamentally disagree. We can see this in the hotly contested differences that delineate design movements, and disciplinary boundaries that are continuously in flux. However, we may also see that there are ways of thinking and knowing common across designers.

This podcast series seeks to uncover the most pressing debates that go beyond design practices. Design Despite Disciplines is hosted and produced by the Berkeley MDes course, Debates in Design. To learn more, visit design.berkeley.edu.