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Methods for Coproduction of Knowledge Among Diverse Disciplines and Stakeholders

Pohl, C, Wuelser, G (2019), in Hall, K., Vogel, A., Croyle, R., (eds.) Strategies for Team Science Success

To address complex issues, knowledge and experts of different fields have to be brought together. Experts come with expectations and assumptions, for instance, about the knowledge that other fields might provide, how trustworthy this knowledge will be, or how important it might be for the issue at stake. Td-net’s toolbox for coproducing knowledge provides tools that help uncover these expectations and assumptions. We consider the disclosure of expectations and assumptions a key precondition for successful collaboration.

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  • 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.

  • Network for Transdisciplinary Research td-net

    Gaia Editorial: Building a transdisciplinary future: Balancing collaboration and excellence

    "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.

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