Processing transdisciplinary knowledge: Intensity, extensity, and potentiality in digital architecture

The convergence of computational technologies has accelerated the efficacy of transdisciplinary experiments through access to common platforms of interaction and communicable technologies. We propose to examine a series of transdisciplinary experiments undertaken by the authors, providing a report and critical analysis on the convergence of heterogeneous sources of knowledge. While these experiments can be compared to deductive and inductive research approaches, we propose to define a third category enabled by technology and its increasing transdisciplinary activity that bridges the arts and sciences. This third approach is defined as adaptive because its technological operations oscillate between axiomatic principles and intuitive observations, determinism and empiricism. The experimental projects explore a breadth of conceptual ideas, technologies utilized, collaborative expertise and physical implementation, providing multivalent entries into the integrative discourse on transdisciplinarity.