MULTI- INTER- AND  TRANSDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION

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Dr. Mattia Leone, architect and associate professor, Department of Architecture (DiARC) University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Also co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network - European Hub (UCCRN) and Coordinator of the Erasmus+ UCCRN-EDU project.



Are you curious for more? Would you like to get in touch? Feel free to contact our lead directly for any questions or inquiries you may have. tikvah@studioblended.com +31 6 42 47 29 69

In an increasingly complex world, interdisciplinary curricula, and co-creation of knowledge around complex problems seems inevitable. However, this may be hard to achieve at your institute, where internal logic actually tends to encourage you to silo your knowledge. Or, you may find that robust disciplinary expertise is needed first, focusing more on the skills needed to collaborate with experts from other disciplines.

Our Studio partners with you, to synthesise disciplines and their respective knowledge and make sense out of it all at a practical level. Coming from a robust background in both anthropology, with its intrinsic focus on bridging silos, and solid educational design, we work towards concrete outputs that you can use for your course, training or degree.

We work lightly, agile, in between people and departments, and focus on the technical dimension (see our value system) to keep things simple and offer you concrete material at the practical level.

As you aim for co-creation of courses/degrees and collaboration across departments, faculties and beyond, we keep in mind your evidence-based (neuroscience) and pedagogical angle to curriculum design.


Image: Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary explained, with the latter being visualised as co-creation of knowledge with non scientific knowledge cultures. Reproduced by permission ofRoderick J. Lawrence. For reference see bottom of the page.

Key projects

<sup>“You take our ideas, visions, inspiration - and you anchor us.”

A senior manager in a zero emission flooring company, looking for a transition trajectory and -curriculum, Interface (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)

“You [Tikvah] are able to learn/absorb the subject that I’m trying to produce, and you transform it to a methodological angle, and organise it is such a way that it directs me, and I can do things [in my course] in a more effective and efficient way”.</sup>

Tannya Pico, PhD candidate who participated in StudioBlended’s resilience course where she received advice on her course design. Her research is on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and transdisciplinarity, Quito, Ecuador  Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
For her most recent pubication see TRIALOG 144 - ECUADOR - After Habitat III 2022-2023

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Curios? Feel free to contact our independent senior advisor directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com

More design angles we use

Technical resilience
Human resilience
Modular
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Blended
Bichronous
MOOC
Designed to be green (and technological simplicity)
Nature and aspirations
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Simplicity and decluttering

References

Roderick J. Lawrence 2021. Creating Built Environments. New York, Routledge.

We are here especially for you as unique professional, to come alongside you and partner with you, as you work on a (architecture / urban / development / policy / land / water / climate) curriculum, so that you can offer effective and resilient education in its simplest form.