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Trans//undisciplinarity is a way to find new approaches or re-think complex societal issues, by making visible and examining underlying assumptions and structures. Engaging with a societal issue in a project proposes an interesting tension: whether or not we choose to actively engage with a complex societal issue, we are always already engaged with the world with each other and with the world through networks of various sorts (technological, aesthetic, economic, etc.). Trans//undisciplinary practice has to be aware of these modes of engagement and bring them into productive relation with each other.

A discipline, whether in academia, visual art, design, or the performing arts, has its own specific practices and produces its own specialized knowledge. Working in these disciplinary structures can make it difficult to see the particularities and limitations of these ways of working, however. Therefore, during the minor, you contribution is not limited to adding your knowledge and skills to the team, but also includes learning to recognize them and reflect on them. Collaborating intensively with others (students, tutors and external collaborators) from a variety of disciplines helps in reconsidering your own practice in a critical fashion. From these considerations the possibility of new ways of doing and knowing arises, lifting the collaboration beyond solely adding up different practices or approaches without changing them or creating something new. Creating new knowledges and practices through critical reflection and making is one of the characteristics of trans//undisciplinarity.

In western society, scientific knowledge is placed at the top of the knowledge hierarchy, with other types, such as artistic, indigenous and experiential ways of knowing, considered as inferior, unreliably and irrational. Trans//undisciplinary collaboration, in contrast, assumes the equality of knowledge. Working from this assumption requires an attitude of attention and curiosity with regards to other ways of knowing and acting, whether this applies to your fellow students, tutors or external partners, or other existing knowledges.

Making public the outcomes of research or artistic processes presupposes a receiving public, or several publics. Publics, however, do not exist prior to being addressed – they exist in their relation with whatever they are meant to receive. Trans//undisciplinary knowledge and practices, in their creation of new ways of knowing the world, both respond to and produce new publics. As part of your project, you will make public some of the work you will do (it is up to decide when and how you will do so). By doing so, you will have to consider who your audience is, how you present your work, and reflect on what the consequences are of making your work public.

Collaboration across and beyond discplines

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