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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"transdisciplinary research"”.
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Pervasive Media and Eudaimonia: Transdisciplinary Research by Practice
… intrude upon daily reality for many people, this research practice provides an alternative pathway in which creative engagement with pervasive media offers a holistic experience of oneself in relation to the people, place and technologies of our time. This thesis introduces the concept of …
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Defining new knowledge produced by collaborative art-science research
… takes a theoretical framework constructed for transdisciplinary research within different natural science disciplines and investigates what kind of new knowledge is produced when this framework is applied to projects at the interface of art and natural science. The main case study is “Sauti ya …
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Intersectoral policy approaches to healthy cities with a focus on built and food environments
… environment lens in South Africa. Firstly, this research investigates the landscape of global, regional (African) and national (South African) policies to identify opportunities to integrate health considerations into diet-related and human settlements policies. Secondly, focusing on the built …
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
… overlapping elements. From the reimagining of research in relation to the new infrastructures to the development of new technologies and their social, cultural, ontological, and epistemological implications, here the politics of knowledge centers around questions of information technology …
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Knowledge in the making : embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… standpoints and knowledges. In this context, a transdisciplinary approach is deemed suitable to provide context-specific insights into organic agriculture. This dissertation draws on anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) to explore the politics of knowledge of organic agriculture …
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Building a Transdisciplinary Trading Zone: Knowledge Sharing and Integration in a Heterogeneous Milieu
The numerous transdisciplinary research initiatives currently addressing a variety of complex social issues could benefit from a deeper understanding of the ways in which intellectually diverse groups work together to address problems. This research focused on a small group of investigators in a …
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Adventures in academic storytelling: using the tools of creative writing to produce peer-reviewed academic research
… academic fields, but each one also draws research from a number of distinct academic disciplines. This makes my writing practice more closely aligned with that of a poet, novelist or writer of creative non-fiction, than that of a traditional single-subject academic. While employed in …
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Guaratiba verde: subsídios para o projeto de uma infra-estrutura verde em área de expansão urbana na cidade do Rio de Janeiro
… ecological services. This is an inter and transdisciplinary research. The assessment started searching for available data in both public and academic institutions, site trips and photographic documentation during a period of over three years. The area was mapped in several aspects, such as …
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Transdisciplinarity on Paper: How do interdisciplinary faculty translate university initiatives into the classroom?
University-level transdisciplinary initiatives have become prevalent as institutions reorient disciplines around complex problems that are relevant to society. Transdisciplinary research initiatives, like those of interdisciplinarity in the previous decade, are reinforced by federal funding …
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Detached from Our Bodies: Representing women's mental health and well-being with graphic memoirs
… incorporation of creative works in geographical research (de Leeuw & Hawkins, 2017). With their ever-growing popularity in the humanities, graphic novels are one example of a creative work gaining epistemological momentum in geography. Graphic novels have proven attractive to geographers for …
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Transdisciplinary Climate Research to Support Decision Making
Climate research holds great promise for helping societies around the world adapt to what are likely to be dramatic changes in social-ecological systems in the 21st century. The climate research community has made enormous strides forward over the last 30 years in understanding how the climate …
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African American Female Political Behavior in the Georgia General Assembly: Policy, Position, & Power
… member, congresswoman, etc.). However, dismal research has been conducted on their multi-faceted political behavior, and on the salient policy issues authored by them. This mixed methods transdisciplinary research employs feminist qualitative research methods and political science quantitative …
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The Transdisciplinary Dilemma: Making SEAD in the Contemporary Research University
… decades, many American universities have created transdisciplinary institutes devoted to science, engineering, art, and design (SEAD). These organizations promote research, teaching, and engagement across technoscientific and artistic disciplines, and seek to cultivate creativity and innovation. …
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Visual Anthropological Methods in Earthquake Risk Communication: A Transdisciplinary Approach
… these novel requirements into their daily research practice. This thesis presents a practice-led enquiry dedicated to exploring the potential of audiovisual methods for novel approaches in the field of seismic risk communication. It confronts the shortcoming that disaster risk communication …
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
… from a hermeneutical-semiotic perspective, with transdisciplinary research into existing theory concerning the human subject. These readings form my case studies. I keep a particular focus on holistic biophysics (Mae Wan Ho, James Oschman, Marko Bischof). Furthermore, Søren Brier's cybersemiotic …
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A transdisciplinary study of embodiment in HCI, AI and New Media.
The aim of this thesis is to report on a transdisciplinary approach, regarding the complexity of thinking about human embodiment in relation to machine embodiment. A practical dimension of this thesis is to elicit some principles for the design and evaluation of virtual embodiment. The …
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
Recent trends in sustainability research have particularly propagated transdisciplinary approaches in knowledge production. These new modes of knowledge production seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
… Irit Rogoff, and Terry Smith); and writings by transdisciplinary scholars (such as Kamau Brathwaite, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Édouard Glissant, Sylvia Wynter, and Anna Tsing). The analysis is structured around five curatorial modes (collaboration, confluent processes, situated crossings, …
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Product stewardship: Linking waste back to primary production
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: In what ways are regulated Product Stewardship schemes likely to contribute to waste reduction in New Zealand? a. How do organisations explain and make sense of Product Stewardship? b. How do people explain and make sense of Product Stewardship? c. What impacts will Product …
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Pātangaroa: Co-developing management strategies for a starfish outbreak in Ōhiwa Harbour
… strategies and greater sources of evidence. This research is located in Aotearoa New Zealand and engages in mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) alongside marine ecology as an appropriate method for contemporary marine research and management. The thesis study focused on Ōhiwa Harbour, aiming to …
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