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Transdisciplinary Experiments

Research, teaching and institutionalisation

This volume pairs practical and theoretical insights on experimentation while advancing new models of transdisciplinary research, teaching, and institutional transformation.

Transdisciplinary Experiments explores how experimental approaches can reshape research, education, and institutions in higher education to respond to today’s complex and interconnected challenges. Grounded in the idea that experiment can open up new possibilities, the volume examines how transdisciplinary teaching and learning can inspire change across disciplines, sectors, and cultures.


280 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2026

Education: Higher Education


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Table of Contents

List of figures
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: transdisciplinary experiments for a more flourishing future
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Wendy Sims-Schouten and Jack Tsao

2 Provocation 1. Tolerating discomfort: the creative unease of transdisciplinary experiments
Ken Arnold

Part I: Transdisciplinary research

3 Transdisciplinary research: doctoral, postdoctoral and professional voices
Wendy Sims-Schouten, Bart de Nil, Helen Omand and Sarah Ferner

4 Transdisciplinary architectures: children, space and climate change
Francesca Salvi, Nicola Crowson and Guido Robazza

5 Exploring art and the earth: ReLOAD communities, transdisciplinarity and empowering youth
Rick Dolphijn and Irena Chawrilska

6 Visioning transdisciplinarity in public health
Ranjita Dhital

7 Provocation 2. To see what everyone sees but think what no one has thought
Rana Basem Dajani

Part II: Transdisciplinary teaching and learning

8 Artificial intelligence and transdisciplinary playgrounds
Jack Tsao

9 Becoming a nomadic artisan: cosmos, streets and transdisciplinarity
Mark Ingham

10 Facilitating a transdisciplinary spirit in higher education: a matter of knowns and yet-to-be-knowns
Kate Maguire and Agi Ryder

11 Provocation 3. Travelling with theory: experiments in gender and childhood sexualities in the Global South
Deevia Bhana

Part III: Institutionalising transdisciplinarity

12 Institutionalising a transdisciplinary science curriculum
David J. Helfand

13 Transdisciplinary emergence: public universities seeking to provide common good
Paul Gibbs

14 Supporting transdisciplinary humanities and arts research at the Trinity Long Room Hub
Caitriona Curtis, Maureen Burgess, Giovanna Lima and Doireann Wallace

15 Two concepts of transdisciplinarity: glimpsing a trans-experientiality in higher education
Ronald Barnett and Karen Gravett

16 Provocation 4. Place, pace and scale: experimenting with transdisciplinarity within a university
Louise McWhinnie

17 Coda: transdisciplinary experiments in motion
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Wendy Sims-Schouten, and Jack Tsao

Index

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