Metrolab Brussels publishes the book "Designing Transdisciplinarity in Urban Research. Metrolab Brussels (2015-2023)". The electronic version of the book can be downloaded for free on the website of Metrolab Brussels.
This book proposes a reflexive, self-critical and largely collective look back at the Metrolab experience: eight years of transdisciplinary urban research in Brussels. Together, these 15 contributions offer an in-depth exploration of the issue of communication and collaboration between academic knowledge and urban actors’ know-how; between scientific, technical or administrative expertise and the experience of users, residents and citizens. It has been designed as a reflexive tool for use by any research group wishing to set up a similar laboratory of applied and transdisciplinary urban research, and that are eager to learn from Metrolab's practices, our trials and errors, successes and failures.
Enhanced by the visual contributions of graphic designers Lucas Gicquel and Sébastien Gairaud, this book goes beyond a mere retrospective; it aims to serve as a conceptual, methodological and reflexive tool for those seeking to address the complexities of urban research's interactions, both internal, among disciplines, and with the real, non-academic world. It provides a set of theoretical notions and pragmatic solutions for researchers seeking to accompany and support public action (state-driven or not) in favour of a transition towards more inclusive and sustainable cities, in the face of urgent challenges of climate change, migratory crisis, public health problems and urban growth.
Editors : Mathieu Berger, Sarah Van Hollebeke.
Contributors : Mathieu Berger, Andrea Bortolotti, Louise Carlier, Daniel Cefaï, Sara Cesari, Roselyne de Lestrange, Christian Dessouroux, Sophie Feyder, Carlotta Fioretti, Lucile Gruntz, Patrick Le Galès, Miodrag Mitrašinović, Harvey Molotch, Luca Pattaroni, Louise Prouteau, Marco Ranzato, Sarah Van Hollebeke, Marc Zune.