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French term or phrase:	voies de traverse
English translation:	crossovers
Entered by:	Miranda Joubioux

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08:16 Sep 8, 2011

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Tech/Engineering - Architecture

French term or phrase: voies de traverse

Architecture Magazine
Target = UK

Autant concepteur que fabricant, cet aventurier bricoleur, au sens noble du terme, explore des voies de traverse entre ergonomie et chimie, artisanat et haute technologie, sans perdre en « constance dans le butinage ».

I don't think "paths through/accross" or "shortcuts" gets the meaning across here and for the moment I'm toying with "unusual combinations".
Does anyone have any other ideas ?

Miranda Joubioux KudoZ activity Questions: 474 (none open) (46 closed without grading) Answers: 616
Local time: 18:03

crossovers

Explanation:
As in hybrid...

Selected response from:

fionn
Mexico
Local time: 11:03

Grading comment

There are a number of possible solutions and many of the suggestions could have worked. This one seemed particularly suited. Thanks to everyone.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +5

crossovers

fionn

4 +1

interplay

Frank Foley

3 +1

(enjoys exploring the) interfaces/interaction/links

polyglot45

3 +1

connections

Melzie

paths leading between / crossing between

Noni Gilbert

points of intersection

Helen Shiner

Answers

2 mins confidence:

paths leading between / crossing between

Explanation:
This is what occurred to me.

Noni Gilbert
Local time: 18:03
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(enjoys exploring the) interfaces/interaction/links

Explanation:
I suspect that the "traverse" is back to the good old "multidisciplinary" and that all they are saying is that he enjoys wandering from one speciality to another, refusing to acknowledge the boundaries between things that are very different.

You could even say he enjoys wandering in and out of different and apparently incompatible fields

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 4

27 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

crossovers

Explanation:
As in hybrid...

Example sentence(s):

"Architecture + Art : Crossover and Collaboration A series of trans-disciplinary investigations into how collaborative and artistic approaches can change the practice and products of architecture."

Reference: http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/arch...

fionn
Mexico
Local time: 11:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

There are a number of possible solutions and many of the suggestions could have worked. This one seemed particularly suited. Thanks to everyone.

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

connections

Explanation:
this way you still have a -tenuous- transport theme, perhaps preceded by little-used/trod...

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or even : out-of-the-box connections

Melzie
Local time: 18:03
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

interplay

Explanation:
Fellow adventurers John Coltrane and John Foxx would approve. :-)

Frank Foley
Local time: 18:03
Native speaker of: English

6 hrs confidence:

points of intersection

Explanation:
Not a literal translation, but a formulation often used in academia. Just a suggestion, certainly not the only way to say it:

Project MUSE - Goethe Yearbook - Introduction—Goethe and Idealism: Points of Intersection

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/goethe_yearbook/v018...

Fanon and cultural theory: points of intersection?

http://machines.pomona.edu/149a-2009/fanon-and-cultural-theo...

The Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University offers the broadest range of courses available in North America today. The faculty offers courses covering the diverse historical and cultural geographies of the world—as well as their points of intersection, dialogue, and exchange—in the fields of African, American, Ancient (Near East, Greek, and Roman), architectural history and theory, Baroque and Rococo, Byzantine, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Japanese, Latin American/Pre-Columbian, Medieval, modern and contemporary, photography, and the Renaissance (Northern and Southern). The scope of art and architecture studied is matched in variety by both approaches and methods of study.

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69286&pageid=i...

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 62

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