Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+
Design thinking - td-net toolbox profile 11 Pearce, B. 2020
This publication describes Design Thinking as a tool and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge). Design Thinking is an iterative methodology for (re)framing problems and co-creating implementable solutions using visual thinking and prototyping.
Design thinking is a collaborative problem-solving strategy. Design thinking:
a) connects the needs of people involved in the problem to researchers’/experts’ observations of the problem;
b) focuses on creating innovative ways of looking at the problem;
c) embraces visualization, storytelling, and experimentation through building and testing prototypes.
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.