Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This paper suggests a mode of inquiry for urbanism based on transdisciplinarity. Our contention is that if massive geohistorical developments pose a fundamental challenge to the entire field of urban studies (its basic epistemological assumptions, categories of analysis, and object of investigation), as posited by some researchers, then a satisfactory way of meeting such challenge cannot come from within urban studies or any other discipline, but rather from a transdisciplinary perspective “beyond and between disciplines,” one that rejects scientific realism and uses its own, distinct epistemological axioms to flesh out the interactions between object and subject (knowledge and design, discovery and creation) in research as the preliminary foundation for a new conception of urbanism. This paper works as a draft where the focus is on collecting and organizing evidence as a first step in our project for a proposal for transdisciplinary urbanism.
Author: Santamaría, Gerardo del Cerro
Institution: Shenyang Jianzhu University
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7216820333