Ioannis Bardakos, Malvina Apostolou
https://doi.org/10.60152/h1lxhb9a
Abstract: This paper proposes membranes as dynamic interfaces for x-disciplinary entanglements across inter multi-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary practices. Membranes, arising transitional spaces, could reconceptualize the notions of in-between, the liminality, the uncanny and the non-places. Unlike static spaces, membranes can be dynamic structures with measurable properties defined by elasticity, tearability, porosity, and selective permeability. These characteristics enable membranes to mediate flows of knowledge, methods, as well as concepts between disciplines, and to operate through mathematical formulations that include functions, permeability coefficients and topological transformations. Multi-layered systems could enable simultaneous disciplinary distinction and hybrid emergence. Extending this framework, we introduce multi-individuation, that is processes where disciplines maintain identity while generating novel forms through membranic interaction. This form(s) of interaction(s) and transformation(s) could bear cognition, emerging from recursive encounters between fields, producing methodologies and vocabularies irreducible to their constituent parts. Through techno-artistic practice and computational humanities applications, we aim to demonstrate how membranic thinking could provide tools for experimentation and knowledge production. By illustrating how mechanisms of x-disciplinary exchange operate within intersecting scales and concepts of science, technology and arts, this framework could offer an approach to disciplinary hybridization and fusion beyond traditional models.
Keywords: membranes; multi-individuation; cognitive process; space; disciplinary hybridity
How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):
Bardakos, I. and Apostolou, M. (2025) ‘On Membranes Within Disciplinary Entanglements: A Cognitive Framework‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 221–227.
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