The Applied Sciences in Uncommonology

If the formal sciences build the blueprint, the applied sciences are where the experiment escapes the page. Here, theory grows hands, puts on its boots, and walks out into the real world — curious, unpredictable, and sometimes gloriously wrong. In engineering, for example, we tinker with the bones of civilisation: bridges that defy gravity, machines that think, and materials that behave like tricksters. Meanwhile, in computer science, we teach logic to dream, turning zeros and ones into symphonies of possibility.

The applied sciences in Uncommonology are less about lab coats and more about laboratories of imagination. We study not just how things work, but why they might want to. As a result, each field becomes an adventure in doing — making, testing, breaking, fixing, and occasionally setting something on fire (for learning purposes only, of course). In other words, it’s where curiosity gets its hands dirty.

Medicine becomes a kind of compassionate alchemy, turning knowledge into healing. Architecture, on the other hand, becomes the art of giving thought a shape people can live inside. Moreover, environmental science becomes an act of listening — to rivers, roots, and rainfall — to decode what the planet is whispering back.

Ultimately, in Uncommonology, the applied sciences are the proving grounds of wonder. They remind us that every experiment, invention, or contraption is also a question — a challenge thrown at the universe that asks, what happens if we try this?

Engineering & Technology

  • Civil engineering — Bridges Between Worlds

  • Mechanical engineering — The Clockwork of Giants

  • Electrical engineering — The Harnessing of Lightning

  • Chemical engineering — The Recipes of Industry

  • Materials engineering — Matter Re-Imagined

  • Aerospace engineering — Flight of Dreams

  • Computer engineering — Thinking Circuits

  • Robotics — Golems Made of Code

  • Mechatronics — The Hybrid Arts

Medicine & Health

  • Medicine — The Art of Mending

  • Clinical medicine — At the Bedside of Mortality

  • Surgery — Knives Against Time

  • Nursing — The Hands of Care

  • Dentistry — Guardians of the Smile

  • Pharmacology — Potions and Proofs

  • Public health — The Body of Society

  • Epidemiology — The Cartography of Disease

Agriculture & Environment

  • Agriculture — Coaxing the Earth

  • Agronomy — The Science of Fields

  • Horticulture — Gardens of Knowledge

  • Animal husbandry — The Politics of Domestication

  • Forestry — The Architecture of Trees

  • Environmental studies — Earth’s Report Card

  • Resource management — The Ledgers of Nature

  • Sustainability — The Future in Balance

Business & Management

  • Business — The Theatre of Trade

  • Finance — The Ritual of Numbers

  • Accounting — The Arithmetic of Trust

  • Marketing — The Psychology of Want

  • Human resources — The Alchemy of People

  • Operations management — Logistics of the Invisible

Design & Architecture

  • Urban planning — Cities as Spells

  • Industrial design — Objects with Souls

  • Graphic design — Visual Grammar

  • Fashion design — Clothing the Invisible

Military & Security

  • Military science — The Theatre of War

  • Strategic studies — Games of Empire

  • Security studies — Guarding the Threshold

Library & Museum Studies

  • Library science — The Care of Memory

  • Archival studies — The Silence of Records

  • Museum studies — Curating the Curious