michael dear professor, college of environmental...

Michael Dear Professor, College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley April 25, 2013

GLOBAL URBAN HUMANITIES

RESITUATING KNOWLEDGE

Year 1: Epistemologies for a Humane Urbanism

!e geohumanities may be de"ned as a transdisciplinary and mixed-method mode of inquiry that begins from the meaning of place and proceeds to reconstruct those meanings in ways that produce new knowledge as well as the promise of a better-informed political practice.

NEW GLOBAL SPACES(Creative Places)

Visual (Photography’s

Geography)

Textual (Spatial Literacies)

GIS(Spatial Histories)

STRUCTURE & MEANINGS OF PLACE

DYNAMICS

METHOD

OUTCOMES

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Fig. 1: Geography and Literature: A Concordance

Period GEOGRAPHY LITERATURE

1950-60 Quantitative Revolution

1960-70 Neo-Marxism Marxist-studies

1980- Social Theory Cultural Studies

1980- Humanities City as “text”

1980- GIS Mapping texts

1990- Environmentalism Eco-criticism

EPISTEMOLOGIES FOR A HUMANE URBANISM [A drama in six acts] • Non-exclusionary ontologies • Epistemological incommensurability • Past concordances, present convergences • Studio as common ground • Assessing outcomes • Knowledge to action, professional and political

EPISTEMOLOGIES FOR A HUMANE URBANISM [A drama in six acts] • Non-exclusionary ontologies • Epistemological incommensurability • Past concordances, present convergences • Studio as common ground • Assessing outcomes • Knowledge to action, professional and political