RASL Minor Tutors – The transdisciplinary RASL Minor at the Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab, Netherlands was introduced in September 2019 and was collectively taught by Josue Amador (Codarts), Sami Hammana (WdKA), Dieuwke Boersma (WdKA/Erasmus University), and Çağlar Köseoğlu (Erasmus University). They spoke with Renée Turner about their approaches to transdisciplinary learning and teaching, addressing student…
Joost De Raeymaecker is an Antwerp-based architect, philosopher, and PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Philosophy (EUR). His research focusses on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and its transition from critique to care in American pragmatism and French empiricism. In addition, he teaches in the LDE minor ‘Modes of Existence: Architecture and Philosophy (MAP)’. On…
Dr. Glenn Loughran is an artist, lecturer, and researcher at the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts. His research interests include transdisciplinary education, artistic research, socially engaged art, critical pedagogy, Island studies, and environmental arts. On the history of transdisciplinarity and transcending versus transgressing SMcD: What is your approach to transdisciplinarity, and how does it relate to…
*Scale* The dominant problems of the contemporary moment are transnational, effecting planetary systems and the plural biotic, abiotic and metabiotic actors that make up this world.1 One of the goals of Euromodernity was to render the Universal legible, a goal that involved standardisation, classification, categorisation, and homogenisation.2 Through these processes, scalable methodologies aimed to be…
*Listening* One of the challenges within transdisciplinary teaching and learning is fostering safe and brave spaces for speaking and listening. 1 When collaborating, it is easy for communication to collapse into a simple game of relay where you say this and I say that. Inevitably, the soundscape can be rapidly filled with disparate opinions and,…
*Conflict* “Conflict, though often unsettling, is a natural part of collective human experience. It can leave participants ill at ease, so it is often avoided and suppressed. Yet conflict, when well-managed, breathes life and energy into relationships and can cause individuals to be more innovative and productive. Conflict is present within our schools whether we…
While the word care conjures Edenic images of peace and selfless acts of altruism, through various conversations and workshops we conducted, a more complicated understanding emerged and especially within the framework of transdisciplinary teaching.