Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing (TACK). (TACK)

'TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing' is an Innovative Training Network within the European Framework Program Horizon 2020. It focuses on understanding the specific knowledge that architects use when designing buildings and cities. TACK gathers ten academic institutions, three architectural institutions and nine architecture offices to offer a PhD training program on the nature of tacit knowledge in architecture, with ten PhD projects situated in three clusters and one overview project. 'Approaching tacit knowledge' investigates tacit knowledge from a theoretical and methodological perspective. It examines how material vectors, such as drawings, plans and models function as mediators of tacit knowledge. 'Probing tacit knowledge' addresses concrete cases of how tacit knowledge operates. It investigates the implicit codes and conventions of contemporary architectural practice and the role of tacit knowledge in negotiating the complex assemblages of architectural practice, design and teaching. 'Situating tacit knowledge' develops new theoretical concepts and new heuristic approaches to examine tacit knowledge in architectural practice. It explores how value-systems inherent to specific cultural contexts affect the perception of tacit knowledge in architecture, and how self-reflexivity can clarify the functioning of tacit knowledge. 'Transmitting tacit knowledge' investigates how tacit knowledge operates in architectural teaching and learning, and which methods and which tools are employed to transmit tacit knowledge in architectural pedagogy. As a whole, the network explores and conceptualizes the very character of tacit knowledge to better understand its possible roles in addressing new and pressing issues in the built environment from alternative vantage points.

Keywords:HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

Disciplines:Design research, Architectural history and theory, Architectural design history and theory

Project type:Collaboration project