Each project, piece of art, design and research produced by Laura Tuccan is the result of an extensive transdisciplinary research and creation process. For me, Architecture, Art, Design and Science expand and overlap in a wide area of permeable borders in order to explore the relationship of the Homo Sapiens species with the natural space inhabited and transformed by it, in an effort to build sustainable spaces and a symbiotic relationship with nature.
Transdisciplinary research presupposes epistemological plurality and requires the integration of dialectical and dialogical processes that emerge from research and maintain knowledge as an open system. According to Basarab Nicolescu, author of the Transdisciplinarity Manifesto (1999, p.22): "as the prefix 'trans' indicates, it concerns that which is at once between disciplines, across disciplines, and beyond any discipline".
The process begins through Science, from an in-depth study of a certain living organism that will be the driving force of the work, including its composition, structure, formal aspects, internal functioning and behavior in relation to the ecosystem.
Such information leads me to an approach in Design, through which sketches allow us to analyze their applicability and function for the human species. Later, this material will lead to experiments in the fields of Architecture and Art. There is an alternative relationship here. The field to be worked on in the first instance varies according to the entire previous process, my focus of study at the moment and where creativity will take me. Still, the creation of an object in one of these fields causes the condition in which the aesthetic experience derived from it raises new information and connections with information left in the process that will lead to a new interpretation of it and creation in the other field.
The result is the construction of a complex thought in the definition of Morin and Le Moigne (2000, p.207) “the thought capable of bringing together (complexus: that which is woven together), of contextualizing, of globalizing, but at the same time, capable of recognizing the singular, the individual, the concrete.” It configures a prism that recognizes different levels of reality, as well as different ways of accessing them through formal, sensitive and experiential reasons. According to Vieira (2008), complexity can be subdivided into two forms: ontological (the complexity that actually exists in things) and semiotic (which resides in the complexity of representations of things). In this way, the final object of my work is doubly systemic: in the first instance, by the way it is idealized and constructed and, in a second moment, by the way it is received, interpreted and disseminated intersystemically via individuals.
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