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Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism

Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry

  • Simultaneous unique and versatile approach to the argument
  • Entanglement of scientific fields and of theory with practice
  • Inscription in cutting-edge scholarly debate

Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 11)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Implementing Transdisciplinarity: Architecture and Urban Planning at Work

    • Carole Després, Geneviève Vachon, Andrée Fortin
    Pages 33-49
  3. MODERN 2.0 – Post-criticality and Transdisciplinarity

    • Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones
    Pages 51-62
  4. Transdisciplinarity and New Paradigm Research

    • Michael Biggs, Daniela Büchler
    Pages 63-78
  5. Discard an Axiom

    • Tatjana Schneider
    Pages 97-115
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 129-133

About this book

The volume addresses the hybridisation of knowledge production in space-related research. In contrast with interdisciplinary knowledge, which is primarily located in scholarly environments, transdisciplinary knowledge production entails a fusion of academic and non-academic knowledge, theory and practice, discipline and profession. Architecture (and urbanism), operating as both a discipline and a profession, seems to form a particularly receptive ground for transdisciplinary research. However, this specificity has not yet been developed into a full-fledged, unique mode of knowledge production.

 

In order to dedicate specific attention to transdisciplinary knowledge production, this book aims to explore (new) hybrid modes of inquiry that allow many of architecture’s longstanding schisms to be overcome: such as between theory/history and practice, critical theory and projective design, the adoption of an external viewpoint and a view-from-within (often under the guise of bottom-up vs. top-down). It therefore offers the reader a mix of contributions that elaborate on knowledge production that is situated in the (architectural and urban) profession or practice, and on practice-based approaches in theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Isabelle Doucet

  • Department of Architecture Sint-Lucas, Brussels, Belgium

    Nel Janssens

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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