Doucet / Janssens Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism

Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-94-007-0104-5
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 136 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Urban and Landscape Perspectives

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janssens, Nel

Doucet, Isabelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
1.1;References;8
2;Contributors;9
3;Contents;14
4;1 Editorial: Transdisciplinarity, the Hybridisation of Knowledge Production and Space-Related Research;15
4.1;1.1 Defining Transdisciplinarity;16
4.2;1.2 Introduction to the Chapters;19
4.3;1.3 Conclusions Incitements (Agenda Setting);23
4.4;Notes;26
4.5;Bibliography;27
5;2 Getting over Architecture: Thinking, SurmountingINTbreak; and Redirecting;29
5.1;2.1 The Collective Moment, the Unsustainable and the Practice of Architecture;31
5.2;2.2 Architecture Now and Then;32
5.2.1;2.2.1 Sustainability Sustaining the Unsustainable;33
5.2.2;2.2.2 Technics and Design After the Subject (Designer);35
5.3;2.3 Redesigning the Self, the Practice and Its Pro-duct;37
5.4;2.4 Post-disciplinary Thought and Redirective Action: Three Examples;39
5.4.1;2.4.1 Metrofitting;39
5.4.2;2.4.2 Moving Cities;40
5.4.3;2.4.3 Rapid Cities;42
5.5;2.5 Conclusions: Architectural and Design History and Theory;43
5.6;Notes;44
5.7;Bibliography;45
6;3 Implementing Transdisciplinarity: Architecture andINTtie;Urban Planning at Work;47
6.1;3.1 Introduction;47
6.2;3.2 Defining Transdisciplinarity;49
6.3;3.3 Architecture and Urban Planning as Undisciplined Disciplines;49
6.3.1;3.3.1 The Case of Urban Planning;50
6.3.2;3.3.2 The Case of Architecture;52
6.3.3;3.3.3 Narrowing the Gap Between Research and Practice;53
6.4;3.4 Bringing Architects, Planners and Social Scientists to Work Together: The Case of GIRBa;54
6.4.1;3.4.1 A Context to Narrow the Gap Between Research and Practice;55
6.4.2;3.4.2 A Research and Action Programme on Suburbs and Urban Sprawl;57
6.4.3;3.4.3 The Limitations and Strengths of Operating Within Academia;60
6.5;3.5 Conclusions;61
6.6;Notes;62
6.7;Bibliography;62
7;4 MODERN 2.0 -- Post-criticality and Transdisciplinarity;64
7.1;Preface;65
7.2;Notes;75
8;5 Transdisciplinarity and New Paradigm Research;76
8.1;5.1 Setting the Scene;76
8.2;5.2 Disciplines and Cultures of Knowledge;78
8.3;5.3 Architectural Practice and Architectural Research;83
8.4;5.4 Considering Architectural Research as Transdisciplinary;87
8.5;5.5 Taking a New Perspective;89
8.6;Notes;90
8.7;Bibliography;91
9;6 Building (Trans)Disciplinary Architectural Research Introducing Mode 1 and Mode 2 to Design Practitioners;92
9.1;6.1 Preamble;92
9.2;6.2 Patchwork Quilts of Knowledges and Doctoral Scholarship in Architecture and Design;94
9.2.1;6.2.1 The Mid-1970s Until the Beginning of the 1990s;94
9.2.2;6.2.2 The 1990s and the Turn of the Millennium;97
9.2.3;6.2.3 Mode 1 and Mode 2 of Knowledge Production with Regard to Architectural and Design Scholarship;100
9.3;6.3 Mode 1 and/or Mode 2 for Future Doctoral Scholarship in Architecture and Design?;104
9.4;Notes;106
9.5;Bibliography;106
10;7 Discard an Axiom;110
10.1;Prelude.;111
10.2;Games of Chance.;111
10.3;Proposition.;112
10.4;Architecture Object.;112
10.5;Soft and Hard.;113
10.6;On Teaching.;114
10.7;On Finding Soft Space.;114
10.8;On Teaching.;116
10.9;On Rules.;116
10.10;Delight.;116
10.11;Tension.;116
10.12;The Internal View of the Architect.;118
10.13;The Framing of Practice.;118
10.14;SoftPraxis.;119
10.15;On the Production of Space.;120
10.16;Games of Chance.;122
10.17;Fragility/Failure.;122
10.18;On Collaboration.;123
10.19;On Wasting Time.;124
10.20;Addendum.;126
10.21;Notes;127
10.22;Bibliography;127
11;8 From Reflecting-in-Action Towards Mapping of the Real;129
11.1;8.1 Two Types of Enquiry;130
11.2;8.2 What Is a Controversy? What Is Mapping Controversies?;133
11.3;8.3 From Reflecting-in-Action Towards Mapping of the Real;138
11.4; Notes;139
11.5;Bibliography;140
12;Name Index;141
13;Subject Index;143