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Emancipatory boundary critique - td-net toolbox profile 1 Pohl, C. 2020

This publication describes the emancipatory boundary critique and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge.
Emancipatory boundary critique consists of a set of questions supporting non-experts in critically challenging an expert’s suggested solution to a problem and the solution’s social and ecological implications.

Emancipatory boundary critique consists of a set of questions to empower non-experts to uncover normative assumptions underlying an expert’s solution to a problem along with the solution’s social and ecological implications. It is one way of using Critical Systems Heuristics, a framework for reflective professional practice developed by Werner Ulrich.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

    Building a transdisciplinary future: Balancing collaboration and excellence

    Paulsen, T, Pohl, C (2023)

    Amidst an era of rapid change and social paradigm shifts, rethinking and renegotiating the social contract between science and society is more urgent than ever.

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