td-net | Network for Transdisciplinary Research
Researchers and teachers, as well as young academics, can find information on methodological approaches and the current discourse in the transdisciplinary community on this website. Research funding institutions and representatives from civil society will also find information on forms and processes of transdisciplinary research partnerships.
News
News
Tour d'Horizon 2024 published
For the twentieth time, thanks to contributions from the community, td-net has compiled a list of key literature from 2024 in the field of inter- and transdisciplinary research, education and practice. 57 publications, are classified into 5 categories with short annotations from the contributors. Feedback on the use and usefulness of this product is very much appreciated - simply email to td-net@scnat.ch
All “Tour d’Horizon of Literature” issues can be found here. Many thanks to our contributors for making this years Tour d’Horizon possible!
Upcoming Events
09:45-17:00
Location of the event
Université de Lausanne
ITD-CH 25 Beziehungen knüpfen – in Beziehungen denken. Wie kann Transdisziplinarität neue Denkräume öffnen?
This year's Swiss Conference on Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD-CH 25) will be held in cooperation with the University of Lausanne.
Please note: The event will be held in German and French mostly.
Location of the event
University of Évora
International Transdisciplinary Conference ITD27
This conference offers leading trainers, researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world the opportunity to share their knowledge, insights, and expertise on the critical issues in inter- and transdisciplinarity needed to build capacity in and through research, education, policy making, activism, and artistic engagement.
Current Publications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter and transdisciplinarity
Laursen, B, Vienni-Baptista, B, Bammer, G, Di Giulio, A, Paulsen, T, Robson-Williams, M, Studer, S (2024)
A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits.
Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Two decades of transdisciplinarity in Switzerland: Past, present, future
Paulsen, T, Küffer, C (2023)
Switzerland has been a stronghold of transdisciplinarity in the past decades, thanks in particular to saguf and td-net. td-net’s 20 years anniversary is an opportunity to recall the past and look ahead.