The ISC’s discussion paper Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research by Matthias Kaiser and Peter Gluckman is a necessary provocation to a research establishment that, in the aggregate, is not sufficiently meeting the challenges of the Anthropocene and the needs of a post-carbon transition.
In an era where climate change is rapidly altering landscapes and livelihoods, the preservation of cultural heritage becomes crucial for the resilience of communities. The Coastal TALES (Coastal Trans-Atlantic Learning for Engagement and Sustainability) project, spearheaded by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES (UK) hub at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), aims to address this challenge
This April I flew to Colombia to meet the Kogui, one of four Indigenous groups that live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, to discuss the design of a collaborative transdisciplinary conservation project they hope to create.
Historians and prehistorians like myself need to work closely with palaeoecologists to learn from each others methods, and to establish working relationships across disciplines.
The sciences and the arts represent two complementary dimensions of knowledge that can converse and converge with one another to generate continually evolving knowledge that is greater than the sum of its parts.
