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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