Abstract
In Chapter 6, “Building (Trans)Disciplinary Architectural Research- Introducing Mode 1 and Mode 2 to Design Practitioners”, Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Fredrik Nilsson discuss Mode 1 and Mode 2 forms of knowledge production from the perspective of the authors´ practice as educators at a doctoral level for PhD students based in the practice of architecture, design and the arts. It builds on a series of lectures and seminars which have explored the potential of transdisciplinarity and Mode 2 knowledge production for practitioners in various design professions, and focuses on various existing “knowledge landscapes” as well as on more recent developments in relation to emerging new modes of knowledge production. The article attempts to grasp the meta-level issues of the new mode of knowledge production and the opportunities it presents with regard to design research. It discusses the development of architectural research during the last four decades together with the essential features of Mode 1 and Mode 2, and tries to relate these features to contemporary architectural and design theory, and various practices in architecture and urban design. As the “scaffold” for constructing this chapter, the authors propose to discuss, firstly, the Scandinavian development of the doctoral scholarship in architecture, and secondly, the international debates that have formed the backdrop to this development with regard to the three major modes of knowledge production: monodisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity. Knowledge production in the area of transdisciplinarity and creative practice was previously seen as being outside of research and scholarship, while developments in the last decade have made it possible to conceptualise the knowledge field of design and architecture in new ways. The authors consider that an inclusive model of research is emerging where more practice-based approaches are possible, that is beginning to achieve academic recognition as well as vital interest from practitioners.
Workshop in explorative architectural design research at Chalmers School of Architecture, Göteborg, Sweden.Photo © Chalmers School of Architecture
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This chapter builds upon and draws from numerous publications of each of the authors and on texts which they have co-authored over the years. We would like to thank doctoral students and participants at seminars and workshops for valuable feedback. Special thanks to Dr. Monika Hestad, Associated Lector, Central Saint Martin, London, for the graphic design of our diagrams 1–4.
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Dunin-Woyseth, H., Nilsson, F. (2011). Building (Trans)Disciplinary Architectural Research – Introducing Mode 1 and Mode 2 to Design Practitioners. In: Doucet, I., Janssens, N. (eds) Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0104-5_6
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