Designing Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide
Explore a new resource for the transdisciplinary community of educators, trainers, change agents, curriculum planners, and more!
What’s in the guide? View the guide and select Full screen mode to Search and Share. You will find sections on training design, essential concepts and practices of trandisciplinarity, qualities of leadership, and proficiencies. The guide is intended to enable you to make decisions about all the components you will want to consider for your intended audience and purpose. [View online. Download PDF.]
Who developed the guide? See the list of Contributors.
Can you recommend how to use the guide?
- Visit the Additional Materials page to find a design worksheet, a series of questions that help you navigate, plan, and select. You will also find handouts you can share with your workshop or class participants on key concepts and practices in transdisciplinarity.
- Go to the Tools Library to find interactive activities that you can search and sort in several ways.
Background
Seated: Coleen Vogel, Pamela Matson, Connie Nshemereirwe, Susanne Moser
Standing: Karina Kloos, Devanathan Parthasarathy, Patricia Balvanara, Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Tobias Buser, Hein Mallee, Margaret Krebs
The TD Training Collaboratory funded in 2021 by the US National Science Foundation brings together pioneering researchers and trainers from regional centers across the globe. Drawing upon their collective experience, the group developed the guide, and pilot tested its use at various conferences and institutes: Sustainability Research and Innovation conferences in Panama (2023) and Helsinki (2024), Australia National University (Canberra, Australia), Future Africa (Pretoria, South Africa) and Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto, Japan). In the grant’s final phase in 2024, the TD Training Collaboratory approached the ITD Alliance about adding the guide to the resources menu of their website since many members of the Collaboratory are also members of the Alliance.
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Disclaimer: Designing Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide was developed as part of a project funded by a US National Science Foundation research grant. Although around half of the project team are members of the ITD Alliance, the project was not formally affiliated with the ITD Alliance, and the ITD Alliance takes no responsibility for the content of the guide. That responsibility rests with the contributors to the guide. The ITD Alliance agreed to host Designing Inspiring Workshops and Courses in Transdisciplinarity: A Guide on its website, but does not have the resources to keep the guide current or to update it beyond 2025.