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2024 | Future Transdisciplinarity at ASU

Introduction

Transdisciplinary approaches are frequently invoked for addressing the most pressing problems currently affecting humanity. Challenges like global climate change, inequality, and sustainable cities cannot be understood or responded to by a single method or discipline, and ASU prides itself for fostering transdisciplinary work in teaching and research. However, scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities can understand the concept of transdisciplinarity in noticeably divergent ways. In this workshop, we want to explore the following questions: How do ideas about what constitutes transdisciplinarity impact faculty research and teaching at ASU? What factors push faculty towards transdisciplinary work, and what factors pull them away from it? How do ASU faculty understand the relationships between transdisciplinarity, community-engaged research, and the co-production of knowledge?

Schedule of Events

Time	Event
10:00 – 10:30 AM	Coffee Service, Hospitality Y’ow Hospitality Suite
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Welcome & Introductions \| Origin & Expected Outcomes Osvaldo Sala & Jason Bruner \| Y’ow Hospitality Suite
11:30 – 12:00 AM	Previous Takeaways from Different Disciplines Jingle Wu, Daniel Gilfillan & Peter de Marneffe \| Y’ow Hospitality Suite
12:00 – 1:00 PM	Lunch Y’ow Hospitality Suite
1:00 – 1:15 PM	Intro to Coproduction Steward Pickett \| Y’ow Hospitality Suite
1:15 – 2:15 PM	Working Group 1 \| Coproduction & Transdisciplinarity Y’ow Hospitality Suite
2:15 – 2:30 PM	Reporting, Working Group 1 Y’ow Hospitality Suite
2:30 – 2:45 PM	Break Y’ow Hospitality Suite
2:45 – 3:45 PM	Working Group 2 \| Drivers: Pushes & Pulls for Transdisciplinarity Y’ow Hospitality Suite
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Reporting, Working Group 2 Y’ow Hospitality Suite
4:00 – 4:30 PM	Future Outcomes & Anticipated Actions Osvaldo Sala & Jason Bruner \| Y’ow Hospitality Suite

Venue Information and Maps

The workshop will be hosted at We-Ko-Pa, in the Y’ow Hospitality Suite.

The Yo’w Hospitality Suite is located on the first floor just past the Hotel Front Desk on the right side of the hallway. A layout of the We’Ko’Pa Resort can be found here. If you have any issue finding the suite, please reach out to Em Gonzalez.