An Experimental TACEESM Meta-design Approach

The TACEESM experience implemented in Yerevan cannot be reduced to the didactic aspects of the workshop. Workshop, among its operational practices, often implies various methodological and disciplinary certainties tending towards the absolutization of the project. The choice to adopt a meta-designing process and the challenge of declining its development trajectories using heterogeneous approaches and tools, in fact, go in the opposite direction to the reiteration of reassuring or standardised formats. On this double cross between practices, methods, disciplined design certainties, and processes, approaches, disciplinary pluralities of meta-design, the reference framework of the workshop was built. At the centre of the activities was a dialogue on the various levels of knowledge, creative, critical, training, and professional innovation toward the possible futures of the case-study area. The innovative content of the experience is therefore to be found not in the project itself, but in the search for the reasons behind it.