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Form Follows Life: Reinventing cities. Non Architecture publishing

The aim of this report is to present and discuss the results of the Non Architecture Competition: “Form Follows Life: Reinventing Cities”. Following Non Architecture’s engagement with the potentialities, and urgencies, surrounding cities and “nature” over the last few years, we came together to curate a competition that sought to challenge as much as possible current paradigms shaping ideas about what is “urban...

Enabling the City: Learning for Transformational Change

Turning 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...

The Inter- and Transdisciplinary Process: A Framework

This chapter develops a proposed framework for urban inter-and transdisciplinary processes. In the framework, competences and dispositions are listed separately on purpose to highlight their potential distinctiveness and relevance, thus making them more clearly visible in the phase of planning for an inter-and transdisciplinary process. The first dimension has four phases that characterise inter-and transdiscip...

Enabling the City: Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Resear...

The motivation for writing this book stems from our engagement with three undeniable trends in the twenty-frst century: a geographical trend of escalating urbanisation in a world shaken by multiple interdependent crises, a political trend of recognising the challenges following from this and placing them centrally into global plans for sustainable development, and thirdly, a trend in science policy of proclaimi...

Setting the Stage

Today’s processes of urbanisation and the significant projected growth and shift of dynamic urbanisation to the South and East all imply complex challenges related to urban development. As a result of the global significance of urban trends, the sustainable development agenda is also changing to reflect this priority – through goal-driven changes. Inter-and transdisciplinary approaches are an expression of dept...

9th INTREPID REPORT INTREPID FUTURE INITIATIVES: Re-imagine urban curricula (a ...

Urban studies and the challenge of embedding sustainability: A review of intern...

The United Nations declaration of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN DESD, 2004–2014) advocates the need for universities to embed sustainability in all learning areas. This inquiry examines how selected post-graduate top-level programmes in urban studies are adapting their curricula to promote sustainable urban development. We start by reviewing an extensive literature to identify the prin...

Getting the education for the city we want

University Graduate Syllabi for Urban Studies: a comparative perspective: China...