TACK – Communities of Tacit Knowledge
Architecture and its Ways of Knowing
‘TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing’ is a newly funded Innovative Training Network, as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions within the European Framework Program Horizon 2020. It trains young researchers in understanding the specific knowledge that architects use when designing buildings and cities. TACK gathers ten major academic institutions, three leading cultural architectural institutions as well as nine distinguished architecture design offices. Collaboratively these partners offer an innovative PhD training program on the nature of tacit knowledge in architecture, resulting in ten parallel PhD projects.
The ‘Communities of Tacit Knowledge’ research and training network synthesizes and expands the expertise that has been generated at ten academic institutions from across Europe to systematically examine tacit knowledge in architecture and thereby train a new generation of researchers in the field of architecture. ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture is represented by Prof. dr. ir. Tom Avermaete, as project leader, and Dr. ir. Janina Gosseye, Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design.
The Kick-Off Meeting for the project will take place on Thursday, 26/09 and Friday, 27/09, and will be attended by all academic partners.