City of the Future Graduation Lab
The Cross Domain City of the Future Graduation Lab, situated in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, has been a pioneer in experimenting with a multidisciplinary approach to education on the built environment. Drawing upon this expertise over the past years, this book r...
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| description | The Cross Domain City of the Future Graduation Lab, situated in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, has been a pioneer in experimenting with a multidisciplinary approach to education on the built environment. Drawing upon this expertise over the past years, this book reflects on multidisciplinarity in the built environment and its implementation in education on the built environment. How should one approach multidisciplinarity in education and practice? What encompasses its core elements, benefits, and challenges? By addressing these questions, the book aims to inform students and practitioners within the realm of the built environment by sharing insights from experiences in multidisciplinary education. It presents eight conclusions regarding the future of multidisciplinary education and, thereby, seeks to contribute to a more humane and sustainable future for cities: Process is central to multidisciplinary collaboration. Negotiating positions, ensuring an environment of respect, balance and open-mindedness, and setting a common vocabulary. Multidisciplinarity can be a way to foster innovation. It triggers complementarity and confrontation. As with any innovation, there is potential for greater outcomes, but, at the same time, extra risks emerge. These need to be managed. Multidisciplinarity could be better integrated into organisational structures. Disciplinarity and multidisciplinarity are in mutual coexistence. They are inseparable. They can complement and contradict each other. Problem precedes solution, not the opposite. Framing the problem, or ‘problematizing’, is a considerable share of the actual solution. This is particularly applicable to multidisciplinarity. Multidisciplinarity is by nature composed of fluid boundaries. Navigating through an enormous diversity of perspectives requires agility, flexibility, independence, spirit of adventure and embracing uncertainty. Professionals should be trained as ‘T-shape’: grounded in their field while able to dialogue with other fields. Both generalists and specialists are needed. Education should provide opportunities for both. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1601902025-05-22T11:44:02Z City of the Future Graduation Lab Cavallo, Roberto Kuijper, Joran Harteveld, Maurice Carreiro Matias, Marcelo Ulkü, Mesut Drašković, Sonja City Future Multidisciplinarity Design Education Engineering Graduation Lab Built Environment Architecture Urban Design Management Geomatics Transport Infrastructure Logistics Collaboration thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPM Educational: Mathematics, science and technology, general::YPMT Educational: Technology The Cross Domain City of the Future Graduation Lab, situated in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, has been a pioneer in experimenting with a multidisciplinary approach to education on the built environment. Drawing upon this expertise over the past years, this book reflects on multidisciplinarity in the built environment and its implementation in education on the built environment. How should one approach multidisciplinarity in education and practice? What encompasses its core elements, benefits, and challenges? By addressing these questions, the book aims to inform students and practitioners within the realm of the built environment by sharing insights from experiences in multidisciplinary education. It presents eight conclusions regarding the future of multidisciplinary education and, thereby, seeks to contribute to a more humane and sustainable future for cities: Process is central to multidisciplinary collaboration. Negotiating positions, ensuring an environment of respect, balance and open-mindedness, and setting a common vocabulary. Multidisciplinarity can be a way to foster innovation. It triggers complementarity and confrontation. As with any innovation, there is potential for greater outcomes, but, at the same time, extra risks emerge. These need to be managed. Multidisciplinarity could be better integrated into organisational structures. Disciplinarity and multidisciplinarity are in mutual coexistence. They are inseparable. They can complement and contradict each other. Problem precedes solution, not the opposite. Framing the problem, or ‘problematizing’, is a considerable share of the actual solution. This is particularly applicable to multidisciplinarity. Multidisciplinarity is by nature composed of fluid boundaries. Navigating through an enormous diversity of perspectives requires agility, flexibility, independence, spirit of adventure and embracing uncertainty. Professionals should be trained as ‘T-shape’: grounded in their field while able to dialogue with other fields. Both generalists and specialists are needed. Education should provide opportunities for both. 2025-05-22T11:44:01Z 2025-05-22T11:44:01Z 2023 book ONIX_20250522T133704_9789463666862_42 9789463666862 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160190 eng Education series image/png Attribution 4.0 International https://store.printservice.nl/tudelftlibrary/en-US/products/4872/City-of-the-Future-Graduation-Lab-Experiences-in-Multidisciplinary-Education/ https://books.open.tudelft.nl/home/catalog/view/66/103/204 TU Delft OPEN Publishing 10.59490/mg.66 10.59490/mg.66 6e038278-520e-4e74-a239-d06f0d179364 9789463666862 open access |
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| topic | City Future Multidisciplinarity Design Education Engineering Graduation Lab Built Environment Architecture Urban Design Management Geomatics Transport Infrastructure Logistics Collaboration thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice thema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPM Educational: Mathematics, science and technology, general::YPMT Educational: Technology |
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