Undisciplined Knowledges for Transversal Futures

To face increasingly uncertain and turbulent futures it is crucial to develop approaches that work with uncertainty across disciplines, fields of expertise and a multiplicity of epistemic cultures. Because of its increasingly processual, ethical and future-facing drive to tackle world challenges, design has a leading role to play in this endeavour. However transdisciplinarity presents challenges. What does it mean exactly to work together across disciplines?

The talk presents a constellation of concepts to orient possible journeys into transdisciplinarity. It draws on process philosophy to suggest an intellectual rationale to transdisciplinarity, and proposes a transversal approach to design that highlights imagination, inventive problem-making (rather than problem-solving), and the co-creation of spaces of learning and unlearning.