Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Discussing Transdisciplinarity: Making Professions and the New Mode of Knowledge Production

Discussing Transdisciplinarity: Making Professions and the New Mode of Knowledge Production

The Nordic Reader

A Publication of the Oslo School of Architecture, Norway (2004)

ISSN 0804-0729

Edited by

Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Liv Merete Nielsen


An Important publication that places knowledge produced within design professions in focus.

Contents include the following topics:
- The Potential of Transdisciplinarity
- The Concept of Technical Knowledge
- Transdisciplinarity and Architectural Design
- On knowledge Production through the Practice of Architecture
- Approaches to Scientific Practice and Transdisciplinary Research
- Transdisciplinarity—Progressive Science and Mob Rules?




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