Collaborative design prototyping in transdisciplinary research: An approach to heterogeneity and unknowns

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This paper provides insights into the practice of design-based interventions in transdisciplinary research and demonstrates how design prototyping can be made fruitful in processes of transformation and collaborative knowledge production. It shows how heterogeneous perspectives and stocks of knowledge can be related to each other and moments of integration generated by working with conceptual designs. Due to their open character, design methods are discussed as particularly promising when dealing with a high degree of complexity, uncertainties, and unknowns. After a characterization of design research and prototyping, common strategies of design research and transdisciplinary research for addressing heterogeneity and unknowns will be explored. This serves to frame the transfer of design practices to support integration processes in transdisciplinary teams. Using an example from a transdisciplinary case study in Transylvania, the implementation of design prototyping will be demonstrated and initial findings presented. Different integration dimensions from transdisciplinary sustainability research serve as a basis for investigating the epistemic, social-organizational, and communicative integration performance of design prototyping. For transdisciplinary research, design practices expand the methodical canon for working in heterogeneous teams and tackling uncertainty and unknowns in openness.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer102808
ZeitschriftFutures
Jahrgang132
Anzahl der Seiten10
ISSN0016-3287
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.09.2021

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  1. Personalising the impersonal: Interaction in public information messages across cultures (Universität Bayreuth, invited talk)
  2. Member of the selection committee for the COAL Prize Art & Environment 2011
  3. It’s all about engagement with texts – Empirical findings about promoting students’ reading comprehension by well-structured texts
  4. Co-determination Workshop Lüneburg 2010
  5. The bumpy road from investigation to knowledge
  6. Rational Design of Molecules by Life Cycle Engineering.
  7. How viable are institutional innovations for national long-term governance? Lessons from a comparative empirical analysis
  8. 'Can you play a new CD,please?' Speech act representation in EFL textbooks: An interlanguage pragmatic appraisal (Universität Gießen, invited talk)
  9. Tagung "Mathe für alle" 2012
  10. Different cultures, different communicative norms: Implications for content and language integrated learning (Lüneburg)
  11. Biological Oxidation of Iron with Various Oxidants.
  12. Panel session on “The grand challenges of the 21st century”
  13. Conceptualizing the Governance of Global Telecoupling
  14. Organization Studies (Fachzeitschrift)
  15. Zootechnologies. A Media History of Swarm Intelligence
  16. Organization Studies (Fachzeitschrift)
  17. Joint Conference Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - DSPDEs 2010
  18. Arlene Raven and the Feminist Studio Workshop
  19. 26th CCSBE Conference 2010 (Veranstaltung)
  20. 5. Rotwildsymposium - 2010
  21. Panel session on “Strategy Communications: Talk and Text” with Andreas König, Eero Vaara, Freek Vermeulen, and Basak Yakis-Douglas