Network for Transdisciplinary Research td-net
Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for transdisciplinary learning and experimentation: Pathways beyond the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021
Global crises unleashed by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine compel us to find sustainable solutions to social, cultural, political, economic, environmental, and health challenges. Yet, these crises have shown us, once again, that existing modes of overcoming challenges are limited or are yet to be implemented.
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.
By BinBin Pearce, Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Michael Stauffacher, Theres Paulsen, Pius Krütli, Tobias Buser, Nabila Putri Salsabila, Celine Christl
Global crises unleashed by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine compel us to find sustainable solutions to social, cultural, political, economic, environmental, and health challenges. Yet, these crises have shown us, once again, that existing modes of overcoming challenges are limited or are yet to be implemented. There is thus a critical need to move beyond what we already know and do. Science must play a pivotal role in supporting societies to search for, create and explore diverse pathways to meeting these challenges. The communities of transdisciplinary (TD) researchers and practitioners are willing and poised to connect scientific endeavors with societal concerns to create and cultivate spaces for overcoming these complex challenges.