Advances in transdisciplinarity: Epistemologies, methodologies and processes

Lawrence, Roderick J.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2014.11.007

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“…The growing literature on TD identifies a number of challenges in conceptualizing and executing TDR, specifically, determining how TDR projects are initiated and framed, how practitioners are involved, how quality standards are defined, how established academic disciplines are integrated with practical knowledge and what new methods are capable of achieving such integration, what type of outreach and communication is relevant and generates impact, how TDR is funded, and how progress and success are generally measured and defined [8,12,15,[18][19][20].…”

Section: Context and Aimmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The process from societal problems to the formation of a common research object and the extent of involvement of practitioners are prominent features of defining success in TDR, distinguishing it from other types of collaborative research. The extent to which integration and empowerment are achieved is viewed as one indication of success [12,14,17,19,21]. Lang et al [8] discuss typical challenges and outline possible coping strategies providing a TDR framework with design principles for progress and success; moreover, they identify "fundamental differences among TDR approaches conducted in different cultural contexts" but find a general applicability of their principles, while demonstrating the need "to turn them into an evidence-based set of principles" (p. 40), based on empirical research experience.…”

Section: Context and Aimmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The underlying process of knowledge distribution and management is of key interest; both for scientists who wish to connect with practice, for practitioners who benefit from science, and for (academic) teaching. Along with the broader ongoing discourse and the growing popularity of TDR, there is a vivid academic discussion on establishing a common TDR framework [8,12,15,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

Section: Establishing a Common Transdisciplinary Research (Tdr) Framementioning

confidence: 99%

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Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Luthe

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The complexity of sustainable development and societal transitions require both analytical understandings of how coupled human-environment systems function and transdisciplinary science-to-practice approaches. The academic discourse has advanced in developing a framework for defining success in transdisciplinary research (TDR). Further empirical evidence is needed to validate the proposed concepts with TDR case studies. This paper applies a widely used TDR framework to test and critically evaluate its design principles and criteria of success with five TDR case studies the author is intimately familiar with. Overall, the design principles of the framework are validated for the five cases. Additional design principles are derived from the case analysis and proposed to complement the applied framework: (1) A project origin from society as opposed to with and for society; (2) Quickly available initiation funding; (3) Flexibility in time, objectives and methods throughout the research process; (4) Acceptance of process vs. project results; (5) Inclusion of public science communication; and (6) A demand-driven transition to a prolonged or new project partnership. The complementing principles are proposed for integration in the applied framework and are subject to further empirical testing. The reflexive empirical approach I have taken in this paper offers a key step towards removing institutional barriers for successful TDR, demonstrating how conceptual frameworks can be applied.

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Section: Context and Aimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Context and Aimmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Establishing a Common Transdisciplinary Research (Tdr) Framementioning

confidence: 99%

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Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Luthe

2017

Sustainability

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“…In correspondence to the established functions of participation practices, Wiek and Iwaniec [58] describe several process-level functions of collective visioning activities: building capacity, empowering stakeholders, creating ownership, and developing accountability. Despite increasingly becoming established, transdisciplinarity is far from being a standard tool for supporting decision making and several barriers remain in place, such as failing or absent mechanisms for translating outcomes of deliberative processes into policy making, decision makers' failing interest in or diffuse understanding of the use of such results, as well as slow and partial implementation of the participatory norm as laid out in EU constitutional treaties, that entails large room for interpretation [59][60][61].…”

Section: From Participatory To Transdisciplinary Foresightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human centred science and technology—transdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance

Gudowsky

Peissl

2016

Eur J Futures Res

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Current governance structures are increasingly showing inability to address complex issues such as the Grand Challenges. Dealing with these highly interrelated, cross cutting, extensive and potentially open ended issues requires research, development and innovation to be oriented towards societal needs and demands. Here, developing and applying sustainable long term strategies for socio-technical change on the basis of socially robust knowledge seems inevitable and using the tools of anticipatory governance-forward looking and participation-is essential in order to govern innovation actively and responsibly. Yet, expert-based forward looking has its limits, especially when considering long term perspectives, and may fail to include all necessary opinions. Thus, stakeholder engagement has become a norm over the last decades, but including laypeople into forward looking science, technology and innovation (STI) governance is underexplored. Here, strategy and policy programme development may be well suited to function as early entry point for public needs and values into the innovation process. This paper will briefly review the theoretical basis for transdisciplinary forward looking and provide first insights into an ongoing highly deliberative and reflexive foresight and co-creation process engaging science, society and policy makers, CIMULACTCitizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon2020. We will especially focus on the role of technology within a collective visioning exercise that allowed for shared explorations of desirable futures, thereby collecting tacit knowledge as well as social needs and values. Integrating these with stakeholders' and experts' knowledge serves for co-creating socially robust knowledge for orienting policy and strategy programming towards needs based science, technology and innovation.

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“…Some trandisciplinary research focuses on developing transdisciplinary definitions that distinguish it from other disciplinary approaches, especially interdisciplinarity, which have been subject to an intensive scholarly discourse over the last 40 years (Nicolescu 2006;Darbellay 2015;Klein 2015). Other research groups are focusing on the development of tools, models or frameworks to facilitate transdisciplinary processes while other groups are assessing transdisciplinary processes developed mainly in research centres and networks funded by public agencies and private organisations (Tötzer et al 2011;Guzmán Ruiz et al 2015;Lawrence 2015;Polk 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multifunctional Sydney laneway: what’s transdisciplinarity got to do with it?

Ruíz

Dobbie

Brown

2017

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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Academia and industry increasingly recognise the need for multifunctional urban spaces. But how do we meet this need? Emerging responses point to the promise of transdisciplinarity. We critically reflect on this claim by analysing the role of transdisciplinary practice in the successful conversion of a Sydney laneway into a multifunctional urban space. We trace the co-existence of different disciplinary practices throughout the project stages, to better understand how much transdisciplinarity contributed to its success. A tentative explanatory framework emerges from our analysis and is offered to map the enabling conditions, disciplinary dynamics and strategies that allowed this laneway's transformation into a multifunctional space. Enabling conditions were the municipality had institutionalised a concern for the environment; an organisational change programme ensured the project's independence from the capital budget; and an environmentally aware community group played a core role. The disciplinary dynamics observed were diverse. Planning and design were transdisciplinary, but implementation and maintenance were not. Finally, practitioners used various strategies to bring actors together: they understood the political nature of the organisation; they recognised the different types of actors involved in the project, and then used appropriate language to communicate ideas and to manage risks and expectations.

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Advances in transdisciplinarity: Epistemologies, methodologies and processes

Cited by 114 publications

References 6 publications

Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Success in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Human centred science and technology—transdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance

A multifunctional Sydney laneway: what’s transdisciplinarity got to do with it?

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