Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences a+
Soft systems methodology - td-net toolbox profile 7 Pohl, C. 2020
This publication describes the soft system methodology and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge. Soft system methodology is a systems thinking based tool for creating shared understandings of a problem situation, working out possible improvements and deciding on the one(s) to implement.
Soft systems methodology is a methodology to structure complex real world problems and to develop and identify desirable and feasible changes in a heterogeneous group of actors. It particularly supports dealing with different thought styles (“Worldviews” or “Weltanschauung” in Checkland’s terminology).
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.