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Publications of td-net or in collaboration with td-net

Here you will find the td-net toolbox profile series, a summary of our toolbox, as well as all publications that td-net has published or contributed to.

  • 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.

  • Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

    Building a transdisciplinary future: Balancing collaboration and excellence

    Paulsen, T, Pohl, C (2023)

    Amidst an era of rapid change and social paradigm shifts, rethinking and renegotiating the social contract between science and society is more urgent than ever.

  • Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

    In Memoriam: Julie Thompson Klein

    Vienni Baptista, B, Pearce, B, Paulsen, T, Stauffacher, M, Pohl, C, Krütli, P, Buser, T (2023)

    Julie’s unwavering enthusiasm and energy proved infectious throughout the two decades we had the privilege of working with her. She was always ready to take on new challenges and explore new horizons.

  • Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

    Creating spaces and cultivating mindesets for transdisciplinary learning and experimentation

    Pearce, B, Vienni Baptista, B, Stauffacher, M, Paulsen, T, Krütli, P, Buser, T, Salsabila, N P, Christl, C (2023)

    This Special Focus highlights the potential of transdisciplinary research and learning to confront the complexity of the challenges facing society today. By serving as a bridge between science, practice and society, transdisciplinarity can be a means to help foster collaboration between diverse actors, question existing paradigms of knowledge co-production and build pathways towards transformation

td-net toolbox profile series

This series compiles the methods and tools of the web-based td-net toolbox in a permanent format that is easy to cite.

  • Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+

    Three types of knowledge - td-net toolbox profile 19 Pohl, C. 2022

    This publication describes the toolbox dialogue approach and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge. The toolbox approach is a tool to uncover implicit assumptions and shared understandings of scientific disciplines and to oppose them to the thought styles of other disciplines.

  • Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+

    Constellation analysis - td-net toolbox profile 20 td-net, Schäfer, M. 2022

    This method develops constellations of social actors, natural elements, technical elements as well as signs/ symbols with regard to an issue. It involves heterogenous groups with the intention to find the constellation most participants can agree to.

  • Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+

    Multi-stakeholder discussion group - td-net toolbox profile 15 Fry, P. 2021

    An approach to involve stakeholders in accompanying a (research) project.

  • Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+

    Functional-dynamic stakeholder involvement - td-net toolbox profile 18 Krütli, P. 2021

    This approach helps to specify the functional (related to the goal of the respective project step) as well as dynamic (related to the type of participation in the respective project step) involvement of stakeholders.

  • Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+

    Erzähl deine Geschichte anhand eines Objekts - td-net toolbox profile 17 Tanner, A. 2021

    Persönliche Bezüge und Wertvorstellungen werden anhand von mitgebrachten Gegenständen explizit gemacht. Das dient der Gruppe dazu, gemeinsame thematische Schwerpunkte zu finden, die den verschiedenen Wertvorstellungen Rechnung tragen.

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