Essays about: "transdisciplinarity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the word transdisciplinarity.

  1. 1. Towards co-production of knowledge? : Natural scientists’ perspectives on collaboration with local communities in the Brazilian Amazon

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Roksana Rotter; [2023]
    Keywords : Collaborative Research; Community Based Participatory Research; Indigenous People; Indigenous and Local Knowledge; Transdisciplinary Research;

    Abstract : Solving complex sustainability problems requires diverse perspectives from different academic disciplines and non-academic actors. However, no generally accepted guidelines exist on how to apply transdisciplinarity or other collaborative approaches in a research process. READ MORE

  3. 2. "It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with" : A Feminist-Phenomenological Re-telling of Donna Haraway's Practices of Collaborative Writing and Storytelling

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Silvia Thomackenstein; [2023]
    Keywords : Feminist writing; phenomenology; Donna Haraway; Situated Knowledges; storytelling; nomadic subjects; co-authoring; Rosi Braidotti; Nina Lykke; Mona Livholts; feminist modes of academic writing; curatorial editing; publishing; exhibition catalogue; worlding; becoming-with; curatorial research; quoting; referencing; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Bruno Latour; Peter Weibel; transdisciplinarity;

    Abstract : This paper explores through Donna Haraway's storytelling practices feminist approaches to collaborative writing. Employing a phenomenological qualitative research approach, the thesis aims to analyze how Haraway herself exercises feminist writing and facilitates the learning of collaborative storytelling. READ MORE

  4. 3. Status and Risk Assessment as Decision Support for Energy Efficiency Measures in Historical Buildings; Testing and Development of the ‘3B’ Method

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Klara Sundlöf; [2022-07-05]
    Keywords : historic buildings; energy efficiency; decision support; status; risk;

    Abstract : Within the Swedish research and development programme on energy efficiency in historic buildings, one project is developing a transdisciplinary method for assessing building status and intervention risks as a means of providing decision support for the selection of measures. The method, here tentatively referred to as the ‘3B’ method, fuses the disciplines of Building conservation, Building physics and Building biology into a holistic approach. READ MORE

  5. 4. Disseminating Nature-based Thinking across Local and Global Networks : the case study of Turin (IT), CONEXUS (H2020, grant agreement n. 867564)

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Mariangela Pastorello; [2022]
    Keywords : Nature-based solutions; climate change adaptation strategies; urban planning; transformative learning; participatory communication; living labs; NBS projects; participatory governance; citizen science; European programmes;

    Abstract : Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are currently considered among the most effective tools available to city administrations and urban planners to tackle the negative effects of climate change.This umbrella concept comprises a large set of different low-impact technical solutions that are inspired/supported, or copied, from nature. READ MORE

  6. 5. On Cultural Forms : The sensemaking and expression of cybersemiotics

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2022]
    Keywords : cultural forms; transdisciplinarity; pragmaticism; cybersemiotics; case study; consonance management; mixed methods; Ernst Cassirer; C.S. Peirce; Søren Brier;

    Abstract : This study contributes to the understanding of cultural forms, inspired by Cassirer’s notion of a general function manifesting in the many particular expressions of human culture. The special case of cybersemiotics (a newly established scientific discipline) is studied as a social system to make sense of how it operates as a viable cultural form. READ MORE