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    Transforming Community: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Application

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    Authors
    Lommerse, Marina
    Smith, Dianne
    Tiwari, Reena
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Lommerse, M. and Smith, D. and Tiwari, R. 2014. Transforming Community: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Application. In M2 Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement, ed. R. Tiwari, M. Lommerse, D. Smith, 255-280. Singapore: Springer.
    Source Title
    M2 Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement Springer
    DOI
    10.1007/978-981-4585-11-8_15
    ISBN
    978-9814585118
    School
    Dept of Architecture and Interior Architecture
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22332
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This chapter discusses how individual authors in Parts I and II of this book have understood and investigated the idea of community. We look at whether and how their definition of community is dependent on location and the nature of their projects, how their views changed through reflection and interaction with community members, and what constitutes capacity building in different socio-cultural contexts. The projects discussed capture a multitude of ways to interface and interact with communities, of modes of interaction, empowerment or engagement, of varying scales and complexity and socio-economic circumstances, as well as of physical locations across the world. The transformative experience is valid, not only for local users/residents in the project, but also for the associated civil society, the policymakers, the professionals, the students and other social actors involved. The case studies described in the chapters in Parts I and II are reflected on in terms of the concept of community as a discipline in its own right, which builds capacity in a transformative experience that brings physical, social, economic or environmental change. We revisit notions of co-creation, capacity building and transformation, and identify transdisciplinary understandings of community engagement. The editors have arrived at the notion of community as a discipline and the increased value of recognizing community engagement as a transdisciplinary practice.

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