Book Talk: Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education
About this Event
Join us for an evening with Mitesh Dixit, Fedah Taqi, and James Westcott, the editors of Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education, for a conversation on architectural education and the case for radically rethinking the current approaches in interdisciplinary design. This event is hosted by SVA MA Design Research, Writing & Criticism.
Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education assembles methods from 15 contributors – across 12 universities in 10 countries – who are attempting to encompass the transcalar conflicts that design must take responsibility for. In design schools today, subjects that share teaching spaces – architecture, urbanism, landscape, preservation, (nature) conservation, interior design, industrial design, etc. – are structurally prevented from interacting. And architecture education is so demanding and so market-oriented that engaging disciplines beyond design schools – geography, sociology, history, politics, theory – is even harder.
This book argues that an anti-disciplinary approach can engage the entangled supply chains, energy regimes, debt structures, border policies, histories of dispossession, and more-than-human ecologies in which design operates. Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education imagines a more accessible design education to pursue within the constraints in which most of us already work.
The event will be in the screening room on the ground floor of 136 W 21st St.
5:30pm : Doors
6:00pm : Program
7:00pm : Reception (2nd Fl, MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism)
Learn more about the book: Pedagogies for Anti-Disciplinary Design Education, Routledge (May 2026).
Mitesh Dixit is an architect, geographer, and founder of DOMAIN Office. He holds a PhD in Architectural History and Urbanism. His research bridges design, cartography, and political geography to examine how infrastructure, governance, environmental change, and geopolitics shape territories. He is a Research and Knowledge Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Fedah Taqi is a junior designer at BIG in New York. Her prior work as a Project Designer at DOMAIN Office included projects in the United States, teaching in Serbia and Austria, and curatorial research in Italy; her recent work studied socio-spatial conditions along MENA borders.
James Westcott is an editor and writer. He taught a studio on material reuse with Rotor at the Architectural Association in London, and continues to teach a seminar on (nature) conservation. He is currently editing Rem Koolhaas’s upcoming autobiography (Taschen, 2026) and edited Ad Hoc Baroque (Rotor, 2023), Back to the Office (Nai010, 2022), Countryside(Taschen, 2020), Elements of Architecture (Taschen, 2018), and Project Japan (Taschen, 2011). He is the author of When Marina Abramović Dies (MIT Press, 2010).
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