Common knowledge and prototyping culture

Antonio Lafuente 

Spain

Problems do (not) come to us by subjects, departments or faculties. They are always presented to us in their totality, without respecting the contingent parceling that academia has introduced into the practices of knowledge.

But, in addition to affecting the experts, they also affect those who do not know. And it is a waste that we cannot afford to continue excluding them from the formulation of questions and the search for solutions.

In short, we need not only interdisciplinarity, but also indisciplinarity. Not only do we need to bring together all the knowledge, but also all the actors, those concerned, whose contribution is based on experiential, local, situated, ancestral or, in short, tacit knowledge. All that uncodified knowledge that we will never find in a book and that is only in the bodies.