Transdisciplinarity
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, 2021, pp. 1-8
- Issue Date:
- 2021-08-29
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Transdisciplinarity is a practice that transcends disciplines and fields, extending the notion of what is known and knowable and what is possible to discover and create across, between, and beyond all our disciplines. As such, it is a practice that takes place in the emergent spaces between disciplines, which some writers believe is the future of discovery (Johansson F, The Medici effect. Harvard Business School Press, 2004). It is being hailed as a new way to tackle our most complex, networked challenges, yet it is also one of the most ancient ways of seeing the world as a connected whole, as evidenced by Indigenous cultures that do not separate their ethics from their geography, or their religion from their science (Yunkaporta T, Sand talk, how indigenous thinking can save the world. Text, Melbourne, 2019). It excludes no discipline, field, stakeholder, or country and is therefore described as an attempt at a unified field of knowledge – an inherently spiritual notion for some (Nuñez MC, Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science 2, 2011): “The keystone of transdisciplinarity is the semantic and practical unification of the meanings that traverse and lie beyond different disciplines” (Nicolescu B, Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. Suny Press, 2002).
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