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- Andersson, Pia, et al.
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The promise of scaffolding : a metaphor and living practice for transdisciplinary inquiry
- 2023
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In: Handbook of transdisciplinarity. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781802207828 - 9781802207835 ; , s. 28-43
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Scaffolding is becoming an increasingly common concept in transdisciplinary research. However, there is some uncertainty about what scaffolding as a practice means for the research process, other than the wide-ranging use of tools and facilitated methods. In this chapter, we start from a societal need to co-create knowledge for complex thinking on complex issues as we argue that learning is central and that scaffolding has an important role to play in promoting learning as both process and process outcome. The chapter examines scaffolding both as metaphor and practice, and how these perspectives of scaffolding have bearings on transdisciplinary projects. We build our discussion from two components: an imaginary walk on the construction site and diverse principles and practices for complex thinking taken from varying disciplinary discourse where collaborative processes are central. We continue by developing a model for scaffolding from a systemic approach - a learning system - based on previous learning models. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the promises and pitfalls of scaffolding in transdisciplinary research and how scaffolding opens new avenues for transdisciplinary processes.
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- Andersson, Pia, 1968, et al.
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The promise of scaffolding: a metaphor and living practice for transdisciplinary inquiry
- 2023
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In: Handbook of transdisciplinarity: Global perspectives. - Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781802207828 ; , s. 28-43
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Scaffolding is becoming an increasingly common concept in transdisciplinary research. However, there is some uncertainty about what scaffolding as a practice means for the research process, other than the wide-ranging use of tools and facilitated methods. In this chapter, we start from a societal need to co-create knowledge for complex thinking on complex issues as we argue that learning is central and that scaffolding has an important role to play in promoting learning as both process and process outcome. The chapter examines scaffolding both as metaphor and practice, and how these perspectives of scaffolding have bearings on transdisciplinary projects. We build our discussion from two components: an imaginary walk on the construction site and diverse principles and practices for complex thinking taken from varying disciplinary discourse where collaborative processes are central. We continue by developing a model for scaffolding from a systemic approach – a learning system – based on previous learning models. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the promises and pitfalls of scaffolding in transdisciplinary research and how scaffolding opens new avenues for transdisciplinary processes.
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- Bengtsson, Ylva, et al.
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Ulriksdals slott under 350 år
- 1995
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Studierna har utgått från Ulriksdals slott, uppfört av Jacob De la Gardie för 350 år sedan. Som kungligt slott har Ulriksdal genomgått ombyggnader under 1600 - och 1700-talet, men präglas idag mest av Karl XVs omfattande omdaning på 1850-talet och Gustav VI Adolfs lika genomgripande förändringar på 1920-talet.Slottet har bjudit på rika studiemöjligheter av stilideal, planlösning, interiörgestaltning, snickerikultur och stormtekniska system från hela 350-årsperioden. Genom noggranna uppmätningar och inventeringar på plats kopplade till arkivstudier har slottets komplicerade förändringshistoria kunnat analyseras,
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Co-production in Action: Towards Realising Just Cities
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Some years ago, in several cities on different continents, groups of people started to organise themselves differently – beyond their institutional frameworks – to create knowledge about how cities possibly could evolve in the future using co-production approaches. They began to share their insights across continents, learning from each other what particular local contexts could offer. These knowledge-transferring group of people grew into the unique international collaboration that is Mistra Urban Futures.If you are interested in how urban change can work towards realising a more just society in a world as challenged and challenging as ours, the book Co-production in action: Towards realising just cities will take you one step in that direction. Its contributors share their stories of how they developed, and are constantly reworking, their methods for addressing the complexities of the urban environment. You will not be given the answers to what could be a sustainable solution to a specific urban problem, but it will take you into a discussion of how possibly to create new knowledge for difficult emerging urban challenges.In search of this new knowledge, it is more and more frequently said that complex urban issues need a transdisciplinary approach – in other words, bringing academic and other researchers and stakeholders together in joint teams to co-produce knowledge. However, this is a challenging way of doing research. Challenging for the collaborating institutions bound by traditional formal plans and work descriptions. Challenging for research agendas that are not able to address a multi-stakeholder approach, and above all, challenging for participants who need to step out of both institutional and individual comfort zones.
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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
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A model for co-production of knowledge: Creating a Research Forum
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In: Transdisciplinary knowledge co-production: A guide for sustainable cities. - Rugby, UK : Practical Action Publishing. - 9781788531450 - 9781788531467 - 9781788531481 ; , s. 144-147
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Collaborations based on academic–practitioner interactions are not always as straightforward as presented in commonplace transdisciplinary theory. This chapter provides the most important insights from past and ongoing work from a sustainability project that uses the ‘Research Forum’ (RF) as a new a means of co-producing transdisciplinary knowledge. The findings center on four of the most common modes of interaction encountered during our work with the RF: academics to practitioners (A > P); practitioners to academics (A < P); academics with practitioners (A >< P); and academics without practitioners (A | P). As such, the RF a method helps better grasp the complexity of transdisciplinary interaction using the principle of separation between the different forms of actor configurations that may arise. We conclude that the specificity of different forms of knowledge cannot me melted into an amorphous mass, elsewise co-production is likely to become a tokenistic effort of little applicatory utility. Put simply, we must constantly remain open to change but also stay protective of knowledge that works without reinvigoration.
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- Džokić, Ana, 1970-, et al.
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Upscaling, Training, Commoning
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- When on September 15, 2008 the financial conglomerate Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy – and with that ‘officially’ sparks the international financial crisis – still few would anticipate the invasive effect this crisis would come to have on the professional and personal life of many across the world. Today, it’s implosion remains a mere ‘blip’ in the universe of events that followed.On closer observation, this financial turmoil started out as a ‘mortgage crisis’, largely fuelled by unsustainable or speculative investments in real-estate in cities across the world. In the run-up to the boom-and-bust of 2008, some – among them architects, urban designers, spatial practitioners, artists, activists, but also economists and others – started preparing for what they understood as (the necessity) of a different world to come, beyond the broken neo-liberal dogma. Today, fragments of such a different reality are unfolding in front of us. Modest, but for real.STEALTH.unlimited (practice of Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen) is one of the protagonists in this field, pointing to the responsibilities and capacities of architecture in contemporary societies, and acts between the fields of architecture, art and activism. With “Upscaling, Training, Commoning”, in 2011 they set on an expedition of sorts, to transform their practice. Following a decade of research addressing urgent cultural and urban issues ahead (resulting in publications, exhibitions, spatial interventions), now they use questions, doubts or limitations of such a practice as a lead towards direct long-term engagements with specific spatial process and/or communities.The resulting practice based exploration has been far away from a distant or objective research condition. It is subject to volatile political and economic situations, to conflicting interests or the engagements with(in) local communities encountered in the work. In this, three lines of exploration have been followed; that of the practice assuming new responsibilities, of the economies of engagement and disengagement, and that of the urban commons. The title “Upscaling, Training, Commoning” relates to the awareness that the relevant activities and approaches need to be nurtured, and that the imperfect contexts in which this take place can be seen as ‘training grounds’ to arrive to practices of commoning. Hence, upscaling, training, commoning describes a trajectory (to be) taken.The artistic research (PhD) “Upscaling, Training, Commoning” concludes with a set of six books, and includes comments on the trajectory taken since 2008 by: the writer Dougald Hine, the economist Martijn Jeroen van der Linden, architects Ana Méndez de Andés and Iva Marčetić. The concluding book, set to words by the writer Paul Currion, features a fictional narrative, looking what the future could possibly hold, in which collective action might enable citizens to navigate through difficult times to create a new political economy.
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- Finnveden, G., et al.
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Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden
- 2020
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In: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. - : Emerald. - 1467-6370. ; 21:4, s. 685-698
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose Since 2006, higher education institutions (HEIs) in Sweden, should according to the Higher Education Act, promote sustainable development (SD). In 2016, the Swedish Government asked the Swedish higher education authority to evaluate how this study is proceeding. The authority chose to focus on education. This paper aims to produce a report on this evaluation. Design/methodology/approach All 47 HEIs in Sweden were asked to write a self-evaluation report based on certain evaluation criteria. A panel was appointed consisting of academics and representatives for students and working life. The panel wrote an evaluation of each HEI, a report on general findings and recommendations, and gave an overall judgement of each HEI in two classes as follows: the HEI has well-developed processes for integration of SD in education or the HEI needs to develop their processes. Findings Overall, a mixed picture developed. Most HEIs could give examples of programmes or courses where SD was integrated. However, less than half of the HEIs had overarching goals for integration of SD in education or had a systematic follow-up of these goals. Even fewer worked specifically with pedagogy and didactics, teaching and learning methods and environments, sustainability competences or other characters of education for SD. Overall, only 12 out of 47 got a higher judgement. Originality/value This is a unique study in which all HEIs in a country are evaluated. This provides unique possibilities for identifying success factors and barriers. The importance of the leadership of the HEIs became clear.
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