Skydio 2+ Enterprise Kit with 3D Scan

Abstract

TA D 6 : 2 guided, participatory, and knowledgebased.3 If environmental studies were recast with inspiration from transdisciplinary approaches, research methods might include design research, practicebased research, research-creation, participatory design, codesign, and design thinking. These approaches explicitly aim to integrate knowledge production with processes of change-inducing action and do so by engaging with local environments. Such local emphasis helps learners develop a systemic understanding of environmental contexts as junctions of social, technological, political, economic, and natural phenomena. Inspiration for advanced methods in transdisciplinary designand practice-based research may be found in Doucet and Janssens’s Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. This book explicitly engages with designerly ways of knowing and the tensions between professional practice, academic discipline, and ethics in research through design.4 Other relevant sources of inspiration are anthropologist Tim Ingold’s Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, sociologists Lury and Wakeford’s Inventive Methods, communications scholar Philip Vannini’s Non-Representational Methodologies, as well as my Situated Design Methods.5 This book does not provide many paths for research that directly intervene and seek to create environmental change. However, it does provide an accessible suite of naturalistic social science methods for environmental studies aimed at policy and academic discussion.