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I’ve been working in and around transdisciplinary practice for the last twenty years now, and have found it to be a fertile and stimulating ground both for those working consistently within it or just passing through, I’ve just noticed that only recently has it started to become fashionable.

With a background in architectural design, followed by research in architectural history, and then a period teaching public art and writing art criticism, my research has tended to focus on transdisciplinary meeting points – between feminist theory and architectural history, conceptual art practice and architectural design, art criticism and autobiographical writing – through individual and collaborative research projects.¹

“Life flows forth out of the door from the limitation of isolated separate existence into the limitlessness of all possible directions”. Georg Simmel, ‘Bridge and Door’

Guyan Porter reports on the recent NAN event that brought eleven artists from Scotland together with thirty artists and arts workers from the north west of England.

Emilia Telese describes Icelandic solutions to artists’ interaction.

Foreword by Jane Watt.

Jane Watt examines NAN’s characteristics and its relationship to the current networking climate.

Jane Watt outlines the core strengths of NAN and looks to the future.

Tristan Hessing of Moot reports from the NAN-NANA event.