Humpty Dumpty

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The

Dilemma

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 courseAr2U090

‘Methodology for Urbanism’

Master 2 in Urbanism, TU Delftby Roberto Rocco and Egbert Stolk

within the Grassroots Project of TU Delft

But what is ‘Urbanism’?

URBANISM

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...Analysis, critical understanding, planning and design

of human life over a territory

area

neighbourhood

city

metropolitan area

But what is ‘Urbanism’?

region

country

Design

HumanSciences

PhysicalSciences

AR2U090 Methodology for Urbanism*Logics of EnquiryIn 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? Urbanism?

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logics of enquiry

questions methods

Logics of enquiry

View of the Dutch landscape near Rotterdam Photo by Roberto Rocco

Photo by Roberto RoccoUrbanisation with water in the Netherlands (Delft)

Idiosyncrasy

Scope

Dynamic nature of urban studies

Climate change

Snow Cover and Sea Surface TemperaturesWith 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.

Credit: NASA

Source: ESRI: http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall11articles/the-future-of-urban-design.html

Mapping coupled to GIS and rendering

http://colabradio.mit.edu/Understanding the RedeCataSampa Ecosystem: groups working on their stakeholders maps. Photo by Patricia Molina Costa

Participatory planning and design

Mindmap produced by TU Delft Urbanism students: Di Fang, Lynn van Calmhout & Wen Wen Sun

Evolving paradigms

Evolving paradigms

Internationalisation

We are real TU Delft

Urbanism students from all over the

world!

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Dynamic nature of urban studiesInternationalization

Discourse

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URBANISM @ TU DELFT

OTBChair:Urban an Regional Development

Prof. Wil Zonneveld

OTBChair:Neighbourhood Change and Housing

Prof. Maarten van Ham

Chair:Environmental Technology

Prof. Arjan van Timmeren

Chair:Cultural History & Design

Prof. Eric Luiten

Chair:Landscape Architecture

Prof. Dirk Sijmons

Chair:Urban Design

Prof. Henco Bekkering

Chair:Theory & Methods

Prof. Han Meyer

Chair:The Why Factory

Prof. Winy Maas

Chair:Spatial Planning & Strategy

Prof. Vincent Nadin

Chair:Design & PoliticsProf. Wouter Vanstiphout

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the king’s horsesAnd 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—neither 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.

Should you have any doubts, please contact Roberto Rocco at

r.c.rocco@tudelft.nl

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Thanks for listening and

watching!

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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