The
Humpty Dumpty Dilemma Challenge(the(future
Or ‘Why we need to integrate knowledge across different communities of practice’
Prepared by Roberto Rocco Chair Spatial Planning and Strategy, TU Delft
For the course Ar2U090
‘Methodology for Urbanism’ Master 2 in Urbanism, TU Delft by Roberto Rocco and Egbert Stolk within the Grassroots Project of TU Delft
But what is ‘Urbanism’?
URBANISM Challenge(the(future
...Analysis, critical
understanding, planning and design of human life over a territory
area
neighbourhood
city
metropolitan area
region But what is ‘Urbanism’?
country
Urbanism? AR2U090 Methodology for Urbanism *Logics of Enquiry
In this exercise, you will need to ‘locate’ yourself inthe hypothetical triangle that composes URBANISM at TU Delft. According to your previous education and aspirations for the future, where would you be? Mark a cross inside the triangle and write your name and country of origin near that cross. Would you add another element to this geometrical form? Is it a polygon? A square? What other categories would you add, if any?
Design
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Physical Sciences
logics of enquiry
questions
methods
Logics of enquiry
View of the Dutch landscape near Rotterdam
Photo by Roberto Rocco
Urbanisation with water in the Netherlands (Delft)
Photo by Roberto Rocco
Idiosyncrasy
Scope
Dynamic nature of urban studies
Snow Cover and Sea Surface Temperatures With an albedo of up to 80 percent or more, snow-covered terrain reflects most of the earth’s incoming solar radiation back into space, cooling the lower atmosphere. When snow cover melts, the albedo drops suddenly to less than about 30 percent, allowing the ground to absorb more solar radiation, heating the earth's surface and lower atmosphere.
Climate change
Credit: NASA
Mapping coupled to GIS and rendering
Source: ESRI: http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall11articles/the-future-of-urban-design.html
Participatory planning and design http://colabradio.mit.edu/Understanding the RedeCataSampa Ecosystem: groups working on their stakeholders maps. Photo by Patricia Molina Costa
Mindmap produced by TU Delft Urbanism students: Di Fang, Lynn van Calmhout & Wen Wen Sun
Evolving paradigms
We are
real TU Delft
Urbanism students from all over the world!
Evolving paradigms Internationalisation
Idiosyncrasy Scope
Dynamic nature of urban studies Internationalization
Questions Answers Methods Discourse
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OTB Chair: Neighbourhood Change and Housing
Chair: Cultural History & Design
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Chair: Landscape Architecture
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Chair: Urban Design
Prof. Han Meyer
Prof. Henco Bekkering
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Worldviews
Answers
Methods Research Questions
Worldviews
governance of the city region?
how do we use the
how to develop the
city region?
city region?
Methods
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These are real TU Delft Urbanism teachers and researchers
what is the
Disciplines
Communities Methods
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’
Of course you
don't! _till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice
knock-down argument for you!
But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'!
When I use a word, it
means just what I choose it to mean窶馬either more nor less.
The question is
whether you can make words mean so many different things.
The question is, which is to be master— that's all!
When I use a word,
it means just what I
choose it to mean—neither more nor less.
“Glory”
If I validate my own meanings, if I decide that my words mean what I want them to mean, regardless of
what other people think, then I am always right!
But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'!
If I have seen further, it is
because I was standing on the shoulders of giants (Sir Isaac Newton)
Knowledge must
be articulated and
communicated across
communities of practice to be
validated, used and integrated by new knowledge.
Thanks for listening and watching! Should you have any doubts, please contact Roberto Rocco at r.c.rocco@tudelft.nl
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This presentation has been realized with funds from the Grassroots project of the TU Delft http://www.icto.tudelft.nl/grassroots with the help of Erna Kotkamp and Ruud van Zijl
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