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| "My Public Living Room’’, M. Galanakis |
We see Transdisciplinary Urbanism (TU) as a new, emerging methodological framework according to which social and action researchers, artists, animators, performers, activists, and local communities come together to study uncertainty, chance and open-endedness, and to transparently renegotiate power structures in urban space. TU builds upon the social aspects of Urbanism; it connects different theories and practices, and crosses disciplines in order to study and improve everyday life. The disciplinary crossovers entailed by such practices push inhabitants and professionals out from their comfort zones, encouraging co-operation and co-creation in non-predetermined ways.…
Our personal background encouraged us to adopt a transdisciplinary research approach (Doucet and Janssens, 2011 and Ramadier, 2004) to study our areas, by integrating three major discourses: Social–Spatial Research, Complexity Theories of Cities, and Urban Activism. We also argued that Transdisciplinary Urbanism (TU) underpins a new way of knowledge production that has been labeled by Gibbons et al. (1994) “Mode 2”, i.e. knowledge produced by multiple research agencies/players, within an evolving and dynamic framework, in which empirical data and theory are combined. The fields chosen and the linkages made are indicative of our understandings of cities and urban studies that are evolving and open-ended.
We deployed Urban Artistic Interventions (UAIs) in Tallinn, Helsinki and Toronto as a tool to contest social norms and to openly renegotiate power structures in public space (Zukin, 1995: 20, 279). All three projects provided settings where “Otherness” and foreignness, admittedly in a naively straightforward way, were acknowledged and welcomed. Framing opportunities for dialog to occur was a worthwhile endeavor that created opportunities for even a temporary shift of perspective and yielded results beyond our expectations. we found that the immersion in the poetry and complexity of the everyday was a groundbreaking research experience.”
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References to previous and ongoing work on Transdisciplinary Urbanism (complete list of publications)
RIZZO, A., Habibipour, A., & Ståhlbröst, A. (2021). Transformative thinking and urban living labs in planning practice: a critical review and ongoing case studies in Europe. European Planning Studies, 29(10), 1739-1757.
RIZZO, A., Ekelund, B., Bergström, J., Ek, K. (2020). Participatory Design as a Tool to Create Resourceful Communities in Sweden. In C. Smaniotto Costa, M. Mačiulienė, M. Menezes, B. Goličnik Marušić (Eds.), Co-Creation of Public Open Places. Practice - Reflection - Learning, Lusófona University Press, Lisbon, 95-107. https://doi.org/10.24140/2020-sct-vol.4-1.6.
RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2017). Problematizing Transdisciplinary Urbanism Research: A Reply to “Seeking Northlake”. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 64, 98-99.
RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2015). Transdisciplinary Urbanism: Three experiences from Europe and Canada. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 47, 35–44.
RIZZO, A. & Galanakis, M. (2014). Transurbanism. Towards A New Transdisciplinary Approach in Urban Planning. In IOSSIFOVA, D. (ed.) Architecture and Planning: Reclaiming the Possibility of Making. UK: Third European Urban Summer School. SoftGrid Ltd., 144-157.
RIZZO, A. (2009). Border Cities in the Baltic Sea (Border Cities nel mar Baltico). Urbanistica - INU (National Institute for Urban Planning). 140, 36-41. ISSN: 0042-1022.
RIZZO, A. (2009). The Multiple City. Tallinn as playground to test new paradigms in urban studies. In Ilmavirta, T. (Ed.), Regenerating Urban Core. Publication of the YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School. Espoo, Finland: C-series of CURS, Helsinki University of Technology, 44-57. ISBN: 978-951-22-9979-9.
RIZZO, A. (2009). ‘P2PFOUND CITIES’. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo. P2P Foundation. Retrieved from: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/.
RIZZO, A. (2009). The Multiple City. Tallinn as playground to test new paradigms in urban studies. In Ilmavirta, T. (Ed.), Regenerating Urban Core. Publication of the YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School. Espoo, Finland: C-series of CURS, Helsinki University of Technology, 44-57. ISBN: 978-951-22-9979-9.
RIZZO, A. (2009). ‘P2PFOUND CITIES’. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo. P2P Foundation. Retrieved from: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/.
RIZZO, A., Bajraktari, E., Jonsson, T., Krishnamurthy, S., Micheller, R., and Santacruz, R. (2008) Helsinki-Tallinn Region. Tracing networks in an archipelago of islands. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Kolleg IX, (re-printed in 2014) Lulu Publishers. ISBN: 9781304711175.
