Initiating a transdisciplinary conversation to improve indoor ecologies

Wakefield-Rann, R; Fam, D

Initiating a transdisciplinary conversation to improve indoor ecologies

Wakefield-Rann, R

Fam, D

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human Ecology Review, 2018, 24 (2), pp. 3 - 23
Issue Date:: 2018-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wakefield-Rann, R https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1046-8788	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fam, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-5034	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Human Ecology Review, 2018, 24 (2), pp. 3 - 23	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1074-4827	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132962
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. Indoor spaces have not traditionally been considered the domain of human ecology. They have been the subject of cultural, architectural, and sociological inquiry, and more recently the site at which various pathogenic or toxic encounters may be studied; yet, these concerns have rarely been investigated as part of one unified and codependent ecology. This special issue aims to remedy this dislocation by beginning a conversation between a range of disciplinary perspectives concerned with the indoors. This ambition is not only linked to a desire to articulate and connect multiple interacting variables operative in indoor spaces, but also to address both a number of factors that are increasingly creating indoor environmental conditions that are suboptimal for human habitation, and the broader more-than-human ecosystems in which they are situated. Although certainly not exhaustive in scope, the research presented in this special issue provides an exemplary profile of situated knowledge that must form the basis of future, integrative, transdisciplinary research into indoor ecologies. Spanning design, architecture, social and human ecology, environmental psychology, sociology, mycology, biotechnology, spatial sciences, statistics, engineering, philosophy, and “lay” and experiential knowledge perspectives, this special issue uncovers a number of the challenges and fertile points of overlap across epistemological approaches and areas of concern within the indoors. The goal of this issue is to highlight the points of divergence, and, more crucially, the points of convergence from which a new transdisciplinary approach to indoor research can emerge.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Human Ecology Review	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.22459/HER.24.02.2018.01	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Ecology	en_US
dc.title	Initiating a transdisciplinary conversation to improve indoor ecologies	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - ISF - Institute for Sustainable Futures
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© 2018, Society for Human Ecology. All rights reserved. Indoor spaces have not traditionally been considered the domain of human ecology. They have been the subject of cultural, architectural, and sociological inquiry, and more recently the site at which various pathogenic or toxic encounters may be studied; yet, these concerns have rarely been investigated as part of one unified and codependent ecology. This special issue aims to remedy this dislocation by beginning a conversation between a range of disciplinary perspectives concerned with the indoors. This ambition is not only linked to a desire to articulate and connect multiple interacting variables operative in indoor spaces, but also to address both a number of factors that are increasingly creating indoor environmental conditions that are suboptimal for human habitation, and the broader more-than-human ecosystems in which they are situated. Although certainly not exhaustive in scope, the research presented in this special issue provides an exemplary profile of situated knowledge that must form the basis of future, integrative, transdisciplinary research into indoor ecologies. Spanning design, architecture, social and human ecology, environmental psychology, sociology, mycology, biotechnology, spatial sciences, statistics, engineering, philosophy, and “lay” and experiential knowledge perspectives, this special issue uncovers a number of the challenges and fertile points of overlap across epistemological approaches and areas of concern within the indoors. The goal of this issue is to highlight the points of divergence, and, more crucially, the points of convergence from which a new transdisciplinary approach to indoor research can emerge.

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