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2025-12-23 Subject: Sciences2
Brandt 2013 - review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
2025-11-24 Subject: Social SciencesThis article reviews peer‑reviewed transdisciplinary research in sustainability science using mixed quantitative and qualitative bibliometric analysis. It assesses growth, impact, methods, process phases, knowledge types, and practitioner involvement. Findings show rising output but fragmented terminology, lack of shared frameworks and platforms, broad yet incoherent method use, geographic concentration in Europe/North America, low empowerment of practitioners, and modest journal impact. The authors recommend clearer framing, common glossary, and a broad suite of appropriate methods, alongside deeper practitioner engagement to advance sustainable transitions.
Ch5 - Arts-Based Research Practices
2025-11-24 Subject: ArtsThis chapter introduces arts-based research (ABR) as a transdisciplinary, public-facing methodology that adapts creative arts—especially theatre—to social research across design, data collection, analysis, and representation. It highlights playbuilding, ethnodrama, and health theatre, emphasizing iterative, collaborative, and responsive processes that engage diverse publics, surface complex feelings and ethics, and democratize meaning-making. Examples include bullying and healthcare issues, with guidance on aesthetics, ethics, and dissemination. The chapter argues ABR can inform policy by educating, challenging stereotypes, and involving stakeholders in decision-making.
Proposal for the Service Design of a Waste Sorting
2025-11-24 Subject: Urban StudiesThis paper applies service design to improve waste sorting in Shanghai’s public residential districts. Using mixed methods—field audits, a 407-respondent survey, user personas and journey maps, and case studies from South Korea and Japan—it identifies gaps between policy and residents’ needs (unclear labels, inconvenient placement, overflows). It proposes an intelligent, modular bin system with IoT sensors, RFID/QR access, image recognition, real-time capacity alerts, integrated handwashing, and a points-based rewards app. A service blueprint targets touchpoints to boost usability, participation, and compliance.
Proposal for the Service Design of a Waste Sorting
2025-11-24 Subject: Urban StudiesThis paper applies service design to improve waste sorting in Shanghai’s public residential districts. Using mixed methods—field audits, a 407-respondent survey, user personas and journey maps, and case studies from South Korea and Japan—it identifies gaps between policy and residents’ needs (unclear labels, inconvenient placement, overflows). It proposes an intelligent, modular bin system with IoT sensors, RFID/QR access, image recognition, real-time capacity alerts, integrated handwashing, and a points-based rewards app. A service blueprint targets touchpoints to boost usability, participation, and compliance.
Proposal for the Service Design of a Waste Sorting
2025-11-24 Subject: Urban StudiesThis paper applies service design to improve waste sorting in Shanghai’s public residential districts. Using mixed methods—field audits, a 407-respondent survey, user personas and journey maps, and case studies from South Korea and Japan—it identifies gaps between policy and residents’ needs (unclear labels, inconvenient placement, overflows). It proposes an intelligent, modular bin system with IoT sensors, RFID/QR access, image recognition, real-time capacity alerts, integrated handwashing, and a points-based rewards app. A service blueprint targets touchpoints to boost usability, participation, and compliance.
Proposal for the Service Design of a Waste Sorting
2025-11-24 Subject: Urban StudiesThis paper applies service design to improve waste sorting in Shanghai’s public residential districts. Using mixed methods—field audits, a 407-respondent survey, user personas and journey maps, and case studies from South Korea and Japan—it identifies gaps between policy and residents’ needs (unclear labels, inconvenient placement, overflows). It proposes an intelligent, modular bin system with IoT sensors, RFID/QR access, image recognition, real-time capacity alerts, integrated handwashing, and a points-based rewards app. A service blueprint targets touchpoints to boost usability, participation, and compliance.
Proposal for the Service Design of a Waste Sorting
2025-11-24 Subject: Urban StudiesThis paper applies service design to improve waste sorting in Shanghai’s public residential districts. Using mixed methods—field audits, a 407-respondent survey, user personas and journey maps, and case studies from South Korea and Japan—it identifies gaps between policy and residents’ needs (unclear labels, inconvenient placement, overflows). It proposes an intelligent, modular bin system with IoT sensors, RFID/QR access, image recognition, real-time capacity alerts, integrated handwashing, and a points-based rewards app. A service blueprint targets touchpoints to boost usability, participation, and compliance.
Lang et al 2012 - Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
2025-11-21 Subject: SciencesThis paper compiles practice-oriented design principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and anchors them in an ideal–typical three-phase process. Drawing on a dispersed body of literature and cases from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia, it synthesizes guidance on collaborative problem framing, the co-production of solution-oriented and transferable knowledge, and the (re-)integration of this knowledge into scientific and societal practice. It also identifies common challenges and coping strategies, and concludes with future research needs to enhance evidence, coordination, and capacity for impactful science–society collaboration.
Ch3 - Research Design
2025-11-21 Subject: Social SciencesThis chapter presents transdisciplinary research design as issue- or problem-centered, holistic, and responsive. It outlines three stages—planning, data collection, and analysis/interpretation/representation—guided by iterative, reflexive, and recursive methodologies. It emphasizes broad preparation across disciplines, mixed/multi-method and hybrid designs (e.g., social network analysis, extended case, qualitative case-control, photovoice), and collaborative division of labor. Examples from integrative health care, architecture, and cross-cultural projects illustrate defining concepts and building intersubjectivity. Finally, it stresses significant, ethical, real-world purposes and accessible dissemination beyond academic journals.
Starting from a conceptual model of an ideal–typical transdisciplinary research process, this article synthesizes and structures such a set of principles from various strands of the literature and empirical experiences.
Language of Importance of this Researchteacher's tips: Highlights bridging science and society
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As a problem- and solution-oriented field, sustainability science is inter alia inspired by concepts of post-normal, mode-2, triple helix, and other science paradigms (Funtowicz and Ravetz 1993; Gibbons et al. 1994; Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 2000) that employ corresponding research practices, such as transdisciplinary, community-based, interactive, or participatory approaches (Kasemir et al. 2003; Savan and Sider 2003; Becker 2006; Robinson and Tansey 2006; Hirsch Hadorn et al. 2006; Jahn 2008; Scholz et al. 2006; Scholz 2011).
Language of Reasoningteacher's tips: Establishes rationale and gaps
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According to this model (Fig. 1), a transdisciplinary research process is conceptualized as a sequence of three phases, including: collaboratively framing the problem and building a collaborative research team (Phase A); co-producing solution-oriented and transferable knowledge through collaborative research (Phase B); and (re-)integrating and applying the produced knowledge in both scientific and societal practice (Phase C).
Language of Importance of this Researchteacher's tips: Clarifies the process structure
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Identify scientists from relevant disciplines/scientific fields and “real-world actors” who have experience, expertise, or any other relevant “stake” in the problem constellation pre-identified for the research project (Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn 2007).
Language of Reasoningteacher's tips: Ensures inclusive and workable start
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Assign in each research effort appropriate roles and responsibilities for scientists and practitioners in a transparent process, accounting for inertia, reluctance, and structural obstacles (Maasen and Lieven 2006; Wiek 2007).
Language of Reasoningteacher's tips: Balances rigor and relevance
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Provide the scientific actors and the practice partners with appropriate products (cf. Defila et al. 2006) that present and “translate” the results of the project in a way that the actors can make use of—as a contribution to real-world problem-solving/transformation or to scientific progress/innovation (Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn 2007).
Language of Importance of this Researchteacher's tips: Emphasizes uptake and assessment
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Since 2019, when Shanghai initiated pilot waste sorting programs in some public residential districts, most waste is still 'mixed and unsorted', with low compliance rates for proper classification. The fundamental issue of sorting waste at the source remains unresolved. Problems such as incomplete regulations, lack of public awareness, and low efficiency in processing continue to persist.
自 2019 年上海在部分居住小區推行垃圾分類試點計劃以來，大部分垃圾依然是『混合未分類』，正確分類的遵從率偏低。源頭分類的根本問題仍未解決。法規不完善、公眾意識不足，以及處理效率低等問題依然持續存在。
Language of Framing
teacher's tips: Why transdisciplinary framing? The writers frame the problem as a stubborn failure. By citing "regulations" (policy/law), "public awareness" (sociology/psychology), and "processing efficiency" (engineering/logistics) as simultaneous causes, they demonstrate that the issue cannot be solved by one discipline alone. The phrases "remains unresolved" and "continue to persist" imply that previous, isolated attempts have failed
Template: Since [Year/Timeframe], when [Subject] initiated [Specific Program/Action], most [Target] is still [Negative Outcome], with [Metric of Failure] (e.g., adoption levels, frequency of something). Problems such as [Noun Phrase 1], [Noun Phrase 2], and [Noun Phrase 3] continue to persist.
Where is this sentence from: Health Informatics