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Join us at the University of Podgorica, Faculty of Architecture next Tuesday, October 20. What resources are available for reimagining design education today? Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education (Routledge, 2026) mobilizes teaching experiments by authors from twelve global institutions who seek to transcend disciplinary boundaries in design education. This talk – part of an international series of discussions emerging from the book – will focus on Dixit’s earlier work in studios across different institutions, to the making of the book and lastly, his PhD work which embodies the idea of anti-disciplinary thinking in architecture. Photo credit: Alia Hamaoui
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Upcoming Event!!🚨 Please join D-Crit as we kick off our fall speaker series with Mitesh Dixit (@miteshdixit), Fedah Taqi (@fedahtaqi), and James Westcott, the editors of Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education, who present ways of radically rethinking education to “match the complexity of the present.” This event is hosted by SVA MA Design Research, Writing, and Criticism. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and reception. 📍 SVA Teaching & Learning Center Screening Room, 136 W 21st St Ground Floor 🕥 Doors at 5:30 PM | Presentation at 6:00 🔗 RSVP at the link in bio!
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Becoming Undisciplined The editors of Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education (Routledge, 2026) announce Becoming Undisciplined, an international series of public conversations marking the book’s publication. Edited by Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, and James Westcott, the volume brings together teaching experiments from contributors across twelve universities in ten countries. At a moment when design education is caught between institutional inertia, market pressures, and planetary crises, the series asks how pedagogy might confront the entanglements in which design operates. Moving beyond disciplinary divisions, these discussions will explore practical, ethical, and context-specific alternatives for design education. The talks begins at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York City in October, then moves to Politecnico di Milano, the University of Montenegro, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and ETSAM Madrid. In 2027, the tour continues at CEPT University in Ahmedabad and at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Each event will bring editors and contributors together with faculty, students, practitioners, and the public through presentations, invited responses, and panel discussions. Editors Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, James Westcott Dates & Locations Pratt Institute School of Architecture, NYC, US Tuesday, October 6, 2026 School of Visual Arts, NYC, US Wednesday, October 7, 2026 Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT Wednesday, October 14, 2026 University of Montenegro, Podgorica, ME Tuesday, October 20, 2026 UCL Bartlett, UK Thursday, November 5, 2026 ETSAM, Madrid, ES Tuesday, November 17, 2026 CEPT, Ahmedabad, IN Wednesday, February 3, 2027 Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC Wednesday, May 19, 2027 Photo credit: Alia Hamaoui
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BECOMING UNDISCIPLINED? // OCTOBER 14 Becoming Undisciplined convenes academics, students, and practitioners to explore how anti-disciplinary pedagogies can challenge educational structures and advance ethical, situated alternatives within design education. In this episode, we will host the curators of the book “Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education”. This book was one of the starting points of our discussion series; the questions raised during the roundtable discussions of this book led us to believe these issues won’t stay unaddressed. We’re excited to host them and see how this discussion evolves as each student, practitioner, and professor joins us, with the hope that we will always ask the right questions to keep this ground ever-evolving and engaged. See you on October 14th at Politecnico di Milano! Precise location to be revealed soon. #unlearnhowyouthink #collectivepedagogies #becomingundisciplined
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LECTURE Royal Geographical Society International Conference 1- 4 September 2026 Architectural Cartography: Counter-Mapping the Transscalar Landscapes of Copper Mining in Krivelj, Serbia Mitesh Dixit will present ‘Architectural Cartography,’ exploring how the village of Krivelj in Eastern Serbia exemplifies the intersection of global copper demands, critical raw materials policies, foreign investments, spatial planning, and daily life. The research investigates how copper is “done” in Krivelj, encompassing not only extraction but also legal frameworks, supply chains, environmental effects, household displacement, and personal stories. It introduces Architectural Cartography as a transscalar, transdisciplinary approach that integrates geomatics, fieldwork, critical cartography, data science, and imaging. The project treats architectural drawing and cartographic image-making as vital research tools for connecting global phenomena with local impacts. Thursday, 3 September 2026 14:15-16.00 Imperial College London Sherfield Building Room 8 Prince Consort Rd, South Kensington London SW7 2BB
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@miteshdixit PhD viva / from Podgorica 2016 to Torino 2026 🤍
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Viva Voce — Architectural Cartography Mitesh Dixit’s PhD Defense Presentation PhD Title Architectural Cartography: Methods for Counter-Mapping the Transscalar Landscapes of Copper Mining in Krivelj, Serbia Date and Time Thursday, 07 May 2026, 14:30 Location Politecnico di Torino Castello del Valentino, Sala della Caccia Torino Mitesh Dixit will present his doctoral dissertation, Architectural Cartography, which examines the village of Krivelj in Eastern Serbia as a site where global demands for copper, critical raw materials policy, foreign investment, spatial planning, and everyday life converge. The research asks how copper is “done” in Krivelj: not only through extraction but also through legal instruments, supply chains, environmental impacts, household displacement, and personal narratives. The dissertation develops Architectural Cartography as a transscalar and transdisciplinary research methodology that combines geomatics, fieldwork, critical cartography, data science, drawing, and image-making. Rather than treating representation as an illustration of research, the project positions architectural drawing and cartographic image-making as central research methods for linking global processes to local consequences. Examination Committee Tim Waterman; Iva Čukić; Rosalea Monacell; Mark Linder; Camillo Boano Advisors Alessandro Armando; Fabio Giulio Tonolo; Natasa Danilovic Hristic
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Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education (Routledge), edited by Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, James Westcott, will be released for sale on May 11, 2026. At a moment when architectural education is strained by institutional inertia, market pressures, and overlapping planetary crises, this volume calls for a radical rethinking of design pedagogy. Rather than treating climate, nature, inequality, food systems, and other urgent concerns as secondary topics, the book argues that they require a reordering of pedagogy itself. Bringing together 15 contributors from 12 universities across 10 countries, the book documents emerging pedagogical experiments that respond to the transcalar conflicts shaping design today. It asks what becomes possible when architectural education moves beyond disciplinary silos and engages the wider political, ecological, historical, and economic conditions in which design operates. Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education makes the case that another design education is not only necessary, but already underway. It offers frameworks, methods, and examples for educators, students, and practitioners seeking more critical, connected, and responsible ways of teaching and learning. Contributors include Camillo Boano, Chandrani Chakrabarti, Mariel Collard, Daniel Daou, Mauro Gil-Fournier, Mark Heller, Kalandar Kamalkhan, Sisi Liang, Sonal Mithal, Francisco Vergara Perucich, Richard L. Preragine, Elena Tudela, Ed Wall, Tim Waterman, and Shiyu Wei.
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2026 AAG - Researching Across Dualistic and Dichotomous Disciplinary Boundaries March 20, 2026 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Nob Hill 10, 6th Floor, Hilton, Tower 3 San Francisco, CA Title Thirdspace Cartography: Counter-Mapping Territories of Extraction in Bor, Serbia Abstract How can architecture challenge extractive territorial changes through counter-cartographic and transscalar spatial practices? This paper explores this question using Bor, Serbia, a village heavily affected by copper mining linked to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Titled “Thirdspace Cartography: Counter-Mapping Transscalar Landscapes of Extraction in Bor, Serbia,” the research critiques traditional spatial planning and planetary urbanization frameworks, which often abstract resource geographies and overlook local lived experience. By combining geomatics, ethnography, and architectural analysis, the study advocates for a counter-cartographic approach that reveals how global sustainability efforts, often praised for their ecological benefits, rely on local dispossession, environmental harm, and bureaucratic exclusion. The paper creates a detailed geospatial archive that documents and visualizes these effects, illustrating how mapping and spatial data have been strategically utilized to facilitate land grabs and exacerbate social division (Scott 1998; Gordon 2008). Instead of viewing mapping as a neutral tool, this research treats it as a site of contestation and renewal, emphasizing participatory methods that use environmental sensor data, reverse-engineered cadastral records, and community-based cartography. By reimagining residents not just as subjects of extraction but as active creators of their environmental knowledge and memory, the paper demonstrates how counter-cartographies can empower marginalized groups. This work contributes to broader conversations on ecological justice, offering an ethical and practical approach to resisting and reshaping spatial power relations in contested extractive zones.
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More than many books, the acknowledgements of Collective Landscape Futures must recognise the many, many people who have contributed to this discourse. As editors, organisers, and chairs of the roundtables and symposium that led to the book we are indebted to the generosity of those who joined the roundtables: Roo Angell, Loretta Bosence, Julia Watson, Meredith Will, Ben Campkin, Henry Day, Toya Peal, Helena Rivera, Will Sandy, Ross Exo-Adams, Gemma Hoult, Marti Franch Batllori, Rebecca McDonald-Balfour, Iman Datoo, Giacomo Guzzon, Dilip Lakhani, Sui Searle, Samuel Vessey, Larry Botchway, Christina Geros, Amund Hugin, Wattan Jawaresh, Johanna Gibbons, Alan Gillingwater, Simon Goldsmith, Indy Johar, Henry Wilson, Kris Cullum-Fernandez, Torange Khonsari, Meaghan Kombol, Paul McGann, Frances Reeves, River Wittke, Ruby Allison, Maria E. Silvas Salinas, Gabriella Gomez Monte, Lenny Rajmont, Alex Erwee, Elin Eyborg, Cong Ma, Cesare Cardia, Matilda O’Callaghan, Theo Paulson, Zanna Woodgate, Mitesh Dixit, Peter Wilder, Bryony Heaven, Andrew Bellfield, Naomi Gibson, Bradon LaBelle, Ian Thompson, and Palak Metha. We would also like to recognise the commitment of attendees who contributed to the events. / Speakers at the symposium helped us make more sense of collective forms and practices of landscape. Thank you to Hannah Hopewell. Antonella Contin & Giovanni Santamaria, Sarah Aziz, David Morgan, Daniel Coombes, Paula Olmtojaeda Latoja, Gareth Doherty, Aniket Bhagwat , Marc Miller, Ophylia Vinodhini, Soumini Raja, Ar. Vishinu K., Tom Sterling, Juana Salcedo, Natsumi Nonaka, Eric Guibert, Tiago Torres Campos, Ben Keene, Roo Angell, Ellie Pritchard, Phil Watson & Derek Hayles, Myrto Karampela-Makrygiannni & Luisa Maria Calabrese, Mitesh Dixit, Koenraad Danneels, Nikos Katsikis, Sensing Site, Maria Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez, and Mattie O’Callaghan. Thank you to all the authors, who in addition to speaking at the roundtables and the symposium, further committed to sharing their writing. / Photos by Robbie Munn / Anushka Athique, Duncan Goodwin, and Ed Wall
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TALK Center for Spatial and Digital Ecologies University of Greenwich Tuesday, 11 November 2025 13.00-14.00 10 Stockwell Street Please join The Spatial and Digital Ecologies, directed by @eddwall & @mariapasholokkorolkova of @gredesignschool , on Tuesday (11th Nov) at 13.00 for the next research seminar by Mitesh Dixit: Becoming Undisciplined: Making & Unmaking of Design Education Abstract Becoming Undisciplined addresses the impasse in architectural education, caught between institutional inertia, market logics, and a planetary crisis. It advances an anti‑disciplinary pedagogy that treats climate disruption, ecological degradation, inequality, and food systems as structural rather than elective concerns. Centered on the soon-to-be-released publication, Pedagogies for an Anti-Disciplinary Design Education (PADDE) (Routledge), which features fifteen contributors from twelve universities in ten countries, the talk outlines methods operating across scales—from supply chains and energy regimes to debt infrastructures, border policies, histories of dispossession, and more-than-human ecologies. Although architecture claims broad jurisdiction, schools often partition adjacent domains—architecture, urbanism, landscape, preservation, conservation, interiors, and industrial design—while making collaboration with geography, sociology, history, politics, and theory difficult. The result is a curriculum that is both overburdened and underpowered. PADDE argues for reordering the terms of design education to cultivate practices that traverse boundaries while acknowledging constraints of accreditation, labor, time, and resources. Dixit will also examine the making of the book: editorial strategies, selection criteria, the design of the Roundtable, and logistics of assembling (and disassembling) trans‑institutional participation and peer review. Presenting experiments and outcomes, Becoming Undisciplined posits that another design education is both thinkable and emerging, and that embracing anti‑disciplinarity is essential to enable designers to act within entangled socio‑ecological systems. @fedahtaqi @miteshdixit @collective_pedagogies @routledgearchitecture
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Out Spring 2026 by Routledge Architecture. Architectural education today is stretched between institutional inertia, market orientation, and planetary polycrisis. Contemporary urgencies – climate, nature, inequality, food systems– are typically treated superficially, when they demand a reordering of the terms of pedagogy itself. Pedagogies for an Anti-Disciplinary Design Education assembles methods from 15 contributors – across 12 universities in 10 countries – who are attempting to encompass the trans-scalar conflicts that design must take responsibility for. Why anti-disciplinarity? Architecture is undoubtedly permissive in its range of interests and roles. Still, in design schools today, even subjects that share teaching spaces – architecture, urbanism, landscape, preservation, (nature) conservation, interior design, industrial design, etc. – are structurally prevented from interacting. And architecture education is so demanding and so market-oriented that engaging disciplines beyond design schools – geography, sociology, history, politics, theory – is even harder. This book argues that a radical rethink is needed. An anti-disciplinary approach can engage the entangled supply chains, energy regimes, debt structures, border policies, histories of dispossession, and more-than-human ecologies in which design operates. Another design education is not only imaginable but already emerging in the experiments documented here, and it can be pursued without denying the constraints within which most of us work. Edited by Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, & James Westcott. Chapters by: Tim Waterman Sonal Mithal & Chandrani Chakrabarti Daniel Daou & Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra Mariel Collard Arias & Mark Heller Richard Lee Peragine & Camillo Boano Francisco Vergara Kalandar Kamalkhan Shiyu Wei & Sisi Liang Mitesh Dixit & Fedah Taqi Ed Wall
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