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A transdisciplinary journey from Virginia Tech to the Venice Biennale,this book showcases collaborative, student-led projects from the VirginiaTech Honors College addressing real-world challenges across time, sectors,and scales. UnEarthed: Scaling Transdisciplinary from Blacksburg to the Biennale is agroundbreaking chronicle highlighting Virginia Tech's commitment totransdisciplinary education while providing students international exposureand a platform for critical global conversations. It documents the processand content of the 2025 Biennale Architettura exhibit unEarthed /Second Nature / PolliNATION presented by the VT Honors College incollaboration with Cloud 9 and Joba Studio. The volume features projectsfrom VT Honors students, Cloud 9, and collaborators representing diverseviewpoints and values aligned with the event's collective intelligence theme. This book arrives at a crucial moment to discuss the permeability betweensectors and scales and the need to work across time, regions, and valuesto reestablish balance between humans and nature. Through transdisciplinaryeducation and design, it seeks to build a foundation for ecological andcultural preservation by unEarthing solutions to the planet's mostcritical challenges.

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Anne-Lise Velez is a Collegiate Professor & Studio Lead in the Honors College at Virginia Tech as well as affiliated faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs. Anne-Lise has a background in design and in public administration, and holds master's degrees in architecture and public administration as well as a PhD in Public Administration. This background leaves her well versed in working across scales and boundaries. In her current position she teaches, conducts research, and designs curricula and courses. She is also a ceramic artist. Enric Ruiz Geli is Professor of Practice in Collaborative Discovery and Design at the Honors College of Virginia Tech and visiting faculty at SCI_ Arc in Los Angeles. He has achieved his PHD dissertation ""It's All About Particles"" with RMIT Europe. He is an architect by Barcelona's School ETSAB-UPC and the Founder of Cloud 9 Studio. His work is fertile with an interdisciplinary approach to architecture including multiple collaborations with theater director Robert Wilson, theorist and philosopher Paul Virilio, visual artist Frederic Amat, ceramist Toni Cumella, designer and educator Simon Taylor, artist Inma Femenía, performer Pep Bou, soundscape's musicians Rioji Ikeda, architect Frei Otto, landscape architect Margie Ruddick, physicist Josep Perelló and Neil Gershenfeld, fashion designers Bless, photographers Daniel Riera and Iwan Baan, economist Jeremy Rifkin, and most recently with El Bulli's chef Ferran Adrià.

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