Advancing Anti-Disciplinary Pedagogies. Refining and Building the Book

This chapter summarizes the second roundtable between this book's contributors and editors, at the University of Greenwich. Conversations encompassed Jacques Rancière and Joseph Jacotot and an equality of intelligences between teacher and student (Tim Waterman), virtual reality as a tool for developing spatial awareness (Shiyu Wei), feminist ecology (Chandrani Chakrabarti and Sonal Mithal), affective architecture (Mauro Gil-Fournier), ‘uselessness’ as a method to counter techno-solutionism (Richard Peragine), historical re-construction as a form of design (Kalandar Kamalkhan), counter-cartography (Mitesh Dixit and Fedah Taqi), ‘scrappy’ teaching and learning methods (Mark Heller and Mariel Collard), and the burdens of contemporary architectural education (Ed Wall). The roundtable ended up clarifying both a method for making this book and for approaching anti-disciplinarity: validating failure, experimentation, contradiction, and building the courage to step outside disciplinary comfort zones.