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What does co-design for tackling complex challenges look like in practice?

Co-design is a collective way of navigating complexity, taking different forms depending on context. The following six elements are a reflection on patterns I’ve seen emerge through practice, especially in settings where multiple perspectives matter.

In developing a conference, what does it take for people to leave their comfort zones to co-design something new? What possibilities does this open up for more meaningful conference designs? What are the broader lessons for transformative research?

Motivated by productive events during the ITD24 conference in Utrecht, the ITD Alliance Integration Experts and Expertise Working Group is now focused on three concrete output-oriented projects led by new co-leaders and a fourth project in formation. See the Integration Experts and Expertise web page for details on the projects and how to get involved.  

The SNSF celebrates 50 years of National Research Programmes and gives some updates on four of these programmes:

• for the NRP 81 on "Baukultur" project portraits have been published

• for the NRP 82 for transdisciplinary biodiversity research 15 projects have been selected

• the NRP 83 on Gender Medicine and Health is newly illustrated by a project landscape

• for the NRP 84 on Plant Breeding Innovation brief descrpitions of 11 projects have been published

SHARED GREEN DEAL is hosting a series of short online coffee talks exploring how community-based social experiments can inform, challenge, and strengthen the implementation of the European Green Deal. Across five thematic sessions, leading researchers will share insights from 24 experiments across Europe, emphasising different perspectives in social sciences and humanities (SSH) priority themes and their relevance for implementing the Green Deal. Each coffee talk, taking place from 10 to 10.30 AM CET on every Thursday in October, is paired with the release of ananalytical report from the researchers, which offers an evidence base for researchers, policymakers, NGOs, practitioners, and communities interested in building a fairer and more inclusive transition.

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is a space for the creative research methods community; it publishes critical and engaged work on creative research methods and welcomes contributions from authors across all disciplines and sectors. Our inaugural issue is free to read for the rest of the year.
Our editorial team is led by Co-Editors in Chief Su-Ming Khoo, Harriet Shortt and Sophie Woodward, with Helen Kara as Consulting Editor.
Read our aims and scope and instructions for authors to learn more about publishing in this innovative new journal. 

In this article, we discuss why transdisciplinary research is more relevant than ever, and why industry and academia should be working together. What are its interests and challenges, and what is the roadmap to follow for your next transdisciplinary research project?

The One Health approach proposes to extend the recognition of the ecosystem-animal-human interconnection into professional actions, aiming at sustainably maintaining health in the broadest sense.

We are delighted to announce that the CAS One Health programme will officially launch in September 2025. Note that there are still a few places available for certain individual modules.

The saguf is launching its own podcast channel! Inside Sustainability Interfaces provides inspiration for scientists and other actors reflecting on sustainability, transformation, and the role of science in society. Members of saguf share insights from inter- and transdisciplinary research. The first episode was released at the end of August.

Is artificial intelligence, a technology aggressively advertised as the ultimate cure-all, fundamentally incompatible with transdisciplinarity and its decades-old insight that the “wicked” problems of the real world do not lend themselves to one-dimensional solutions? Should transdisciplinary research outright reject a technology that is already undermining efforts to achieve social and environmental justice? Or can artificial intelligence actually support transdisciplinary research when used responsibly?