Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives

Edited by Roderick J. Lawrence, Honorary Professor, Geneva School of Social Sciences and Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

• Contents:Foreword xxixAlfonso MontuoriAcknowledgements xxxixRoderick J. LawrenceIntroduction 1Roderick J. LawrencePART I EPISTEMOLOGIES, PHILOSOPHIES, AND THEORIES1 The promise of scaffolding: a metaphor and living practice fortransdisciplinary inquiry 28Pia Andersson and Henrietta Palmer2 Transdisciplinarity as it emerges: a living-systems perspective 44Danielle Davelaar3 The public epistemic role of higher education for all 62Su-ming Khoo4 The pertinence of transdisciplinarity for global studies: the case ofglobalization 79Amentahru Wahlrab5 Addressing power relations in the global field of science 95Petra Dannecker6 Cross-pollination in art and science: plasticity of the mind and birth oftranscultures 111Marc-Williams Debono7 New pragmatics and hermeneutics of self, knowledge, and society:transdisciplinarity, trans-civilizational dialogues, and planetary conversations 128Ananta Kumar GiriPART II PRAXIS8 Transdisciplinary practice: being, doing, knowing 145David Adams and Kate Maguire9 Emergence of transdisciplinarity in global environmental changeresearch: moving from system understanding to systemic sustainabilitysolutions 159Rik Leemans and Karen Fortuin10 Navigating knowledge systems to address resilience challenges:contributions of communities of practice 177Corina Angheloiu, Shuchi Vora and Mike Tennant11 The transdisciplinary potential of citizen science 197Alexandra Albert, Muki Haklay, Fabien Moustard, Susanne Hecker,Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Marina Chang and Ariel B. Lindner12 Real-world Labs as transdisciplinary learning environments 214Richard Beecroft13 Transdisciplinary teams as discourse coalitions: building transformativenarratives for transdisciplinary inquiry 230Chris Riedy14 Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urbanregeneration project in London, UK 247Gemma Moore, Irene Pluchinotta, Helen Pineo, David Osrin, NiciZimmermann, Giuseppe Salvia and Michael DaviesPART III PEDAGOGY AND TRAINING15 Collaborating for good: what would a transdisciplinary university look like? 267Michael F. Mascolo16 Advancing transdisciplinary research in the Global South 286Katsia Paulavets, Sarah Moore and Mathieu Denis17 Transdisciplinarity in higher education: the potential of digitalization 306Theres Paulsen, Jakob Zinsstag and Lisa Crump18 Transdisciplinary education and ATLAS activities: past, present, andfuture perspectives 319Atila Ertas, Raymond T. Yeh, Bob Block and David BlockPART IV A GLOBAL SAMPLE OF TRANSDISCIPLINARITY19 Value-added transdisciplinary One Health research and problem solving 333Jakob Zinsstag, Kristina Pelikan, Monica Berger Gonzalez, AndreaKaiser-Grolimund, Lisa Crump, Stephanie Mauti, Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa,Bassirou Bonfoh, Seid Mohammed Ali, Rahma Abtidon and Rea Tschopp20 Engaging in transformative spaces: a design perspective 351Aniek Hebinck, Timo von Wirth, Giorgia Silvestri and Laura Pereira21 Amidst the flyway: co-designing accommodation fields for the barnaclegoose in south-eastern Finland 367Juha Hiedanpää, Matti Salo, Mikko Jokinen, Jani Pellikka, Ron Store, ToniLaaksonen, Mika Pirinen, Wieland Heim, Antti Piironen, Nina Mikander,Hanne Lohilahti and Jukka T. Forsman22 Schola’s action program: modernizing and sustaining public schools inQuebec 384Carole Després, Claude Demers, Caroline Gagnon, Pierre Larochelle,Frédérick Lépinay, André Potvin and Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre23 Children as research actors: theories, methods, and experimentation 403Frédéric Darbellay and Zoe Moody24 Transdisciplinarity at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Kyoto, Japan 419Tetsuzo Yasunari, Yasuhisa Kondo, Ria Lambino, Hein Mallee, Yuko Onishi,Makoto Taniguchi and Ichiro Tayasu25 Implementing sustainability in Taipei with transdisciplinarity 436Liling Huang, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Yun-Tsui Chang, Kuan-Chieh Chen andQile Dong26 Co-producing urban and peri-urban agriculture in Andean countries 455Jaime Hernández-García and Tannya Pico Parra27 Reconceptualizing stakeholders and decentering collaborations:reflections from the Lagos housing sector 474Basirat Oyalowo28 Implementing transdisciplinarity in the Caucasus region: societalconditions, institutional transitions, and perspectives 492Tamara Mitrofanenko, Tigran Keryan, Nina Shatberashvili, Lana Ghvinjiliaand Ulli VilsmaierPART V RESOURCES29 Resourcing transdisciplinary programs and projects 513Erica Key30 Global alliance for inter- and transdisciplinarity: connectingorganizations to advance collaborative research and education 525Stephen M. Fiore, Julie Thompson Klein, Ulli Vilsmaier, Machiel Keestra andTheres Paulsen31 Toolkits for transdisciplinary research: state of the art, challenges, andpotentials for further developments 536Sibylle Studer and Christian Pohl32 Does transdisciplinarity need an underpinning discipline? The case forIntegration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 547Gabriele BammerPART VI PROSPECTS33 Prospects for transdisciplinarity and beyond: collectively keeping thefuture in mind 560Valerie A. Brown and John A. Harris34 Digital Life Norway – should biotechnology be transdisciplinary? 575Maria Bårdsen Hesjedal, Trygve Brautaset and Roger Strand35 What futures for transdisciplinarity in nuclear R&D? 592Catrinel Turcanu, Gaston Meskens, Robbe Geysmans, Joke Kenens, MarikaSilvikko de Villafranca and Tanja PerkoEpilogue: globalizing transdisciplinarity 609Julie Thompson KleinIndex 619

‘An indispensable Handbook on transdisciplinarity that unifies conceptual, pedagogic and practical contributions from over 100 authors across five continents. Transdisciplinarity is a global approach to complexity that progresses “between”, “through” and “beyond” individual disciplines. It is an obligatory yet challenging process, helping us to understand the (unstable) current world and to generate novel transformative propositions.’