leading transdisciplinary projects to success: isabelle lessard
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Learning from the Emergence of the Sustainable Neighbourhood Theme
Future Earth WebinarSeptember 29th, 2016
Leading Transdisciplinary Projects to Success
Isabelle Lessard, Ph.D.Scientific Coordinator
CIRODD
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Emergence of the Sustainable Neighbourhood (SN) Theme
April 2014: First CIRODD workshop on this themeAim: Enable the emergence of (a) new transdisciplinary project(s)
About 25 participants– 8 engineers-researchers– 8 social sciences researchers– 3 practitioners (architect, town planner and director of stakeholder and community
relations from a university) (what research grants call “end user”)– 2 facilitators, 4 scribes and observers– 2 potential sites for pilot projects
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Transdisciplinarity Challenges
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Collective Intelligence
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Designing a Project / Event / Workshop
Needs & Context
Intention
Harvesting Many individual intentions
(ideally, should be explicited)
Collective intention
How
What
Why
Similarity with the « Golden Circle » of Simon Sinek
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Diamond of Participation
(Gray, D., Brown, S., Macanufo, J. 2010.)
Check inEngage, empower,
motivate, brainstorm, no judgement, intentions
Check outPrioritize, do an action plan, put emphasis on what has been learned
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Groan Zone
INTENTION
(Gray, D., Brown, S., Macanufo, J. 2010.)
Navigate through to find clusters, nodes, issues, barriers,
potential solutions
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Variations (infinite!)
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The interface / facilitator / liaison
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Group and Project Phases in TD
(Schauppenlehner-Kloyber & Penker, 2015; Brandt et al., 2013)
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Behaviours and Feelings during the Project Phases
(Schauppenlehner-Kloyber & Penker, 2015)
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Facilitator’s Role through the Phases
Facilitator role
(Schauppenlehner-Kloyber & Penker, 2015)
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So, how did we manage the Sustainable Neighbourhood theme?
Smaller sub-groups around smaller projects
One-on-one meeting
Principal investigator rotation between researchers AND
practitioners
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Ongoing Sustainable Neighbourhood Projects
La Cité Verte Technopôle Angus
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Keep learning TD through action and experimentation!
Remember why you decided to dive into/ believe in transdisciplinarity and keep going back to your
INTENTION
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References and ResourcesBrandt, P., Ernst, A., Gralla, F., Luederitz, C., Lang, D.J., Newig, J., Reinert, F., Abson, D.J., von Wehrden, H. 2013. A review od transciciplinary research in sustainability science. Ecological Economics, 92, p. 1-15.
Fitzgerald, D. 2013. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Understanding Collaboration between the Social Sciences and the Life Sciences. Strategic Workshop Report, Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS), Denmark. 40 p.
Gray, D., Brown, S., Macanufo, J. 2010. Gamestorming A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers. O'Reilly Media. 290 p.
Schauppenlehner-Kloyber E., Penker M. 2015. Managing group processes in transdisciplinary future studies: How to facilitate social learning and capacity building for self-organised action towards sustainable urban development?, Futures, 65, p. 57-71.
RESOURCES The Art of Hosting movement
Conflict Management training: e.g.: Nonviolent communication approach of Marshall B. Rosenberg
Coaching, participative leadership, innovation management, etc.
http://www.artofhosting.org
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Back up Slides
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Epistemic Distance
Fitzgerald, D. 2013. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Understanding Collaboration between the Social Sciences and the Life Sciences. Strategic Workshop Report, Standing Committee for the Social Sciences (SCSS), Denmark. 40 p.
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Level of TD projects
Schauppenlehner-Kloyber E, Penker M. 2015. Managing group processes in transdisciplinary future studies: How to facilitate social learning and capacity building for self-organised action towards sustainable urban development?, Futures, Volume 65, Pages 57-71.