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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.
The constellation analysis (CA) develops constellations. Constellations are relations between heterogenous elements that build a cohesive cluster. Four types of elements are differentiated: social actors, natural elements, technical elements as well as signs symbols. During the CA, equal importance is assigned to all elements and there is a focus on the relations between them. This method involves experts from science and practice with the intention to find the constellation reflecting the perceived reality most participants can accept or even share.
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.