How can transdisciplinary research contribute to knowledge democracy?

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.

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.

"Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.” This quote from the novel The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa sums up the challenges of our time. 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.