Introduction. Excursions to border areas

Abstract

The encounters between architecture and the human sciences in this thematic dossier are extremely diverse and raise a large number of questions. First of all, any encounter between two terms necessarily raises questions about them: neither architecture nor the human sciences emerge unscathed from a crossover. In fact, it rarely appears to be these 'fields' that are at the origin of the encounter, but rather problematic situations that lead to the blithe crossing of disciplinary boundaries. In fact, a number of the studies in this dossier show that it is the objects of study that mobilise different registers and require the researcher to find ways of describing them properly, but also of importing them. It is for this reason that some studies use fiction to describe their subjects and to give a critical scope to their transdisciplinary trajectory.