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Josefine Fokdal is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of International Urbanism at the University of Stuttgart. Josefine's research focus is on co-production in urban development, governance, and informal dynamics amd she is involved in the Realworld Laboratory for Sustainable Mobility Culture. Olivia Bina is a Principal Researcher at the University of Lisbon, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of Geography & Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. She has a degree in Political Sciences and PhD in Geography. Through interdisciplinarity Olivia searches for pathways that balance ever-smarter growth and technology with a recovery of the unlimited potential of human-nature connectedness. Olivia was the Chair of the COST Action Intrepid. Prue Chiles is Professor of Architectural Design Research at Newcastle and part of the practice Chiles, Evans and Care Architects CE+CA. Prue works to strengthen connections between people, place, teaching, imagination, and architectural design. Liis Ojamäe is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology and also at the School of Governance, Law and Society, Tallinn University. Liis' research interests are related to urban housing: residential culture, housing policy and markets, housing re-construction, and sustainability. Katrin Paadam is Professor of Sociology in the School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. Katrin has an integrated approach towards urban and residential dynamics and her research focuses on transforming actors’ practices and cultures on different scales of city space in the interplay of material structures and larger socio-spatial processes.
This intellectually and visually attractive book offers an invaluable guide to the innovative inter- and transdisciplinary ideas, vocabularies and tools for crafting more sustainable urban futures. Applied case studies from Newcastle to Ljubljana and Tallinn to Calabria, by authors from diverse communities of practice, demonstrate the transformative power of combining different knowledges in co-productive collaborations. This is sure to become a landmark in its field. David Simon, Professor of Development Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Transpositional knowledge has the power to ignite innovation and enrich collaboration when applied across the complex urban contexts that define the cities of today. The multi-regional and multi-scalar ethnographic accounts offered in this book illustrate the agency inter and in particular transdisciplinary approaches offer diverse stakeholders, at a time when the imperative for fostering cooperation couldn't be more acute. Harriet Harriss, Dean of the School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, US
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