Where Knowledge Resides: Exploring Architecture of Learning and Knowing from the Community of Practice Perspective

In his 1994 essay, Truth without Correspondence to Reality, Richard Rorty writes that“one should stop worrying about whether what one believes is well-grounded and startworrying about whether one has been imaginative enough to think up interesting alternativesto one’s present beliefs” (p. 34). Advocating for theoretical inter-disciplinarityas a catalyst toward new design agency, this paper explores a theoretical model fromwhich contemporary practice can draw principles and apply to the design of certainplaces. The model contributes to the topic by offering interpretations and insightsabout the programmatic, physical, and spatial aspects of sites of production in theknowledge economy including work and educational spaces.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6