Working in the In-Between: A Methodological Declaration (Research Notebook Series, No. 00)

This methodological declaration establishes the Research Notebook Series as a structured yet plural field of inquiry within architecture and urban design. It positions deconstruction, plurality, and the in-between as operational principles for examining urban questions across spatial, social, institutional, and epistemic dimensions. The series isolates and reconnects concepts through a constellation of cross-linked notebooks organised by five methodological threads: Ground, Relation Fields, Practices of Attention, Prototypes of Becoming, and Lineages. Working in the in-between is framed here as a disciplinary stance. Urban conditions rarely align within stable categories or single scales; they emerge through relations between form and use, individual and collective life, design and governance. The series, therefore, advances a mode of inquiry that clarifies these relational thresholds without collapsing them into simplification. In doing so, it proposes a research architecture capable of engaging contemporary urban challenges while maintaining conceptual plurality and structural coherence.