Académies suisses des sciences a+
Three types of knowledge - td-net toolbox profile 19 Pohl, C. 2022
This publication describes the toolbox dialogue approach and is part of a series of tools and methods compiled in the td-net toolbox for co-producing knowledge. The toolbox approach is a tool to uncover implicit assumptions and shared understandings of scientific disciplines and to oppose them to the thought styles of other disciplines.
The three types of knowledge tool serves to reformulate research questions in order to check what (societal) knowledge demands the questions meet. The tool aims to generate three versions of a research question, each version stressing a different type of knowledge:
Knowledge about what is (systems knowledge)
Knowledge about what should be (target knowledge)
Knowledge about how we come from where we are to where we should be (transformation knowledge)
On the basis of the different versions of a research question, the most relevant one, with respect to the particular (societal) knowledge demand in question, can jointly be identified in group discussions.
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.
Gaia Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
