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Enabling the City: Learning for Transformational Change
Get PDFTurning globally conceived agendas local means enabling interconnected and sustainable urban knowledge, and giving voice and legitimacy to a multiplicity of agencies, worldviews, ways of knowing and understanding the problems and the possibility for alternative ways of doing things. In this chapter, the authors reflected on the interconnections between these three policy arenas through the lens of the inter-and transdisciplinary experiments at the local level. They highlighted the strong link between the concept of learning and re-learning how to design and plan cities in a holistic manner, and collaborative and participatory processes entailing inter-and transdisciplinarity. To address the combination of resistance, limited capabilities and inevitable contradictions, inter-and transdisciplinary experiments – the framework as well as the INTREPID journey – call for new educational models and a reprioritising of the kind of knowledge that needs to be taught, away from technical skills towards softer competences and dispositions
Enabling the City
No full textEnabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity. The rich stories reflect different research and local practice cultures, exploring issues such as ageing, community, health and dementia, public space, energy, mobility cultures, heritage, housing, re-use, and renewal, as well as more universal questions about urban sustainability and climate change, and perhaps most importantly, education. Against this backdrop, aspirations for the 21st century are related to the international, national, and local agendas expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in the New Urban Agenda (NUA), raising fundamental questions of how to enable development. We highlight aspects of transformative learning and ways of knowing, critical to any collaborative and participatory process
Enabling the City
No full textEnabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity. The rich stories reflect different research and local practice cultures, exploring issues such as ageing, community, health and dementia, public space, energy, mobility cultures, heritage, housing, re-use, and renewal, as well as more universal questions about urban sustainability and climate change, and perhaps most importantly, education. Against this backdrop, aspirations for the 21st century are related to the international, national, and local agendas expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in the New Urban Agenda (NUA), raising fundamental questions of how to enable development. We highlight aspects of transformative learning and ways of knowing, critical to any collaborative and participatory process
Characteristics of integration in inter- and transdisciplinary urban research and practice
No full textIn this chapter, the authors offer a philosophy of science perspective on the dimension of integration in inter-and transdisciplinary processes. In the first part of this chapter, the authors focus on identifying common denominators of characteristics of the outcomes of integration, differentiating between both types of integrative cross-disciplinarity namely, inter-and transdisciplinarity. In the second part of the chapter they discuss challenges and difficulties for transdisciplinary research and practice, and highlight its democratic potential in general and more specifically in the urban realm. Two other interdisciplinary fields, namely economic sociology and social robotics are used here to enhance understanding through the similarities and differences of urban and non urban research and practice. Transdisciplinary integration in urban planning and architecture typically aims at developing and supporting an intricate scenario that is entrenched
Portland works - Sheffield: a framework for co-production and community ownership
Get PDFPortland Works is a building whose importance was recognised with Grade II listing by Historic England, a mechanism to protect by law "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". Built in the 1870s, Portland Works is an integrated cutlery factory listed as a rare complete example of large integrated cutlery works, with a layout that optimises the use of power in the cutlery manufacturing process, and for retaining both hand forges and steam grinding rooms. In 2013 Portland works was bought by nearly five hundred people, through Sheffield's first community share issues. Within the Portland Works project, heritage was framed broadly to include the building alongside its material, technological and social histories. Overall the multiple stories of the Portland Works project and its remarkably positive outcome of community ownership are a testament of what is possible when multiple interests, values and desires converge and when the energy and capacity of each participant are harnessed towards shared goals and objectives
Words matter : a shared baseline vocabulary
No full textA shared baseline vocabulary is co-designed and co-produced, which also offers the space needed to enhance mutual understanding and learning. The baseline vocabulary consists of entries and their baseline definition. When a baseline definition is based on existing definitions of the word, the necessary references are included. In inter-and transdisciplinary communication settings, the jargon of the different disciplines and professions are an important source of ambiguity. Change agents are actors who catalyse a transformative process within society. Often these individuals or organisations facilitate processes of co-producing knowledge and mediate between the many fields of interests and hierarchies. In successful collaboration the processes and methods for participating as well as the quality and degree of the participation result in in-depth contributions from both practice and research. In the framework for analysis, “competence” refers specifically to those skills that allow the facilitation of the process of inter-and transdisciplinary knowledge generation
Barriers and potentials of interprofessional planning:Creating Care Homes for People with Dementia
Get PDFKapitlet argumenterer for ikke blot tværfaglige samarbejder, men også for at arbejde sammen med alle involverede på et givet felt. I dette tilfælde ved etableringen af plejehjem for demensramte: Det er ikke nok at have arkitektonisk eller lægelig ekspertise; plejere, pårørende m.fl. kan med fordel inddrages i komplekse udfordringer.It is a huge challenge to interdisciplinarity that people from different subject fields have to work together and come to the same understanding. On the one hand, growing specialisation results in different subject fields that create valuable in-depth knowledge. On the other, knowledge tends to become separated in silos with different discourses and different perspectives on how to tackle new challenges; differences created during education and reinforced by working experience. For a study of inter-professional knowledge transfer, care homes for people with dementia had the advantage that they have a very complex, but at the same time well-defined problem, which definitely requires different and specialised kinds of knowledge. Inter-professionality, like interdisciplinarity, means cooperation between people from different subject fields. It requires that knowledge is transferred across professional boundaries. To do so, mental barriers against understandings and interpretations embedded in other disciplines or traditions other than one own must be lowered or removed.</p
Enabling the City
No full textEnabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity. The rich stories reflect different research and local practice cultures, exploring issues such as ageing, community, health and dementia, public space, energy, mobility cultures, heritage, housing, re-use, and renewal, as well as more universal questions about urban sustainability and climate change, and perhaps most importantly, education. Against this backdrop, aspirations for the 21st century are related to the international, national, and local agendas expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in the New Urban Agenda (NUA), raising fundamental questions of how to enable development. We highlight aspects of transformative learning and ways of knowing, critical to any collaborative and participatory process
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