R E P O R T AGENDA SETTING WORKSHOP TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN AN INTERCULTURAL ORIENTATION September 11 th to 13 th 2018 Leuphana University Lüneburg Maria De Eguia Huerta, Juliana Merçon, Esther Meyer, Ulli Vilsmaier ‘Complexity or Control? Paradigms for Sustainable Development (CCP)’
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R E P O R T
AGENDA SETTING WORKSHOP
TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND SUSTAINABILITY
WITHIN AN INTERCULTURAL ORIENTATION
September 11th to 13th 2018
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Maria De Eguia Huerta, Juliana Merçon, Esther Meyer, Ulli Vilsmaier
‘Complexity or Control? Paradigms for Sustainable Development (CCP)’
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0. Index
Content 0. Index ................................................................................................................................................ 2
1. Agenda Setting Workshop in a nutshell .......................................................................................... 2
2. The background and aims of the Agenda Setting Workshop .......................................................... 3
3. Preparation Process ........................................................................................................................ 5
4. Workshop Program .......................................................................................................................... 6
about challenges and tensions in Td research and ways to deal with them; what are the best ways
to measure sustainability for goa setting of accountability?
Clustering 3: (de)construction of (tired) ideas; cultures as path dependencies, as barriers slowing
down sustainability, how we overcome those barriers?; The politics of methodology, how to
perform Td in a way that is truly fostering social justice?; experimenting with and reflectiong on
differences for socio-ecological justice.
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Clustering 4: Multiple actors, different visions, potential of conflicts; Which are some of the specific
Td aspects to consider in cases of environmental conflict?, theory and methodology; conflicts of
diverse knowledge chains in Td research and de-construction role plays in conflict management.
Clustering 5: How can we foster sustainability thinking through Nexus approach?; Co-management
of common pool resources (water); Territory co-management.
These are some impressions of this process:
5.4. Exploring forms of ongoing exchange and collaborative research: Concrete Action At the end of the workshop groups rearranged the clustering of cards they took to their working
table, they played with the cards to see alternative structures, connections and questions
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behind the mentioned themes. In what followed, the groups discussed about possible specific
forms of collaboration and developed an action plan. It was strongly encouraged that very
concrete steps would be developed with names and tasks, as well as a rough timeline.
The groups presented to the plenary their action plans or proposals so that those interested to
join them would be able to listen to the concrete plan.
Some of the specific proposals that were developed are listed in what follows:
• A virtual seminar: local groups in different countries, 6 months with two meetings per
month, co-organized by diverse institutions and multi-actor groups.
• A platform of cooperation and a Td-Study to transform education via comparative
research on transformative methodology. This shall be made, amongst others through
the coordination of M.A. students and a research workshop in Brasil (casecase-based
mutual learning). The cases shall be from Brasil, Chile and Bolivia.
• Building understandings of the concept “territorio”: Virtual meetings for sharing
concepts and new insights. Virtual meetings to discuss: Are there
similar/neighbouring/connecting concepts around the world? Under what conditions is
“territorio” co-management successful or a failure? Based on these discussions
broaden indicators shall be explored that could contribute to this debate.
• Water scarcity: concept work, collect cases through virtual meetings.
These are some images of this activity:
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5.5. Further research questions During the Agenda Setting Workshop the participants had the opportunity to write down
possible further issues to research, that were meaningful within the constellation of the group.
The poster stood in a corner of the room and it was possible to add issues as they appeared
in people’s mind. Some people decided to add their name, so that everyone knows who
purposed that specific issue, others decided not to do so. This is the resulting list:
Further issues: - Sustainability as an oblique (indirect) goal - Normativity of sustainability and the other normative worlds (conflicting values) - Making transdisciplinarity more accessible (Stefan) - Democratization of knowledge + don’t forget the alternative worldviews (Inta) - Alternative ways of sharing/co-creating knowledge (?) journal pagers (Stefan) - Open science (Stefan) - Td to solve real world problems - Td integrated knowledge conception - Sustainability-balance, renovation - Bio-diversity conservation (Fonda) - Non-verbal research approaches (Moritz) - Societal conditions for collective research (Moritz) - Intercultural challenges and strategies found in “Td for sustainability” experiences in
different world regions - Knowledge “integration” and/or “cocreation” processes wjere traditional knowledge is
involved - Social learning (Rodrigo) - De-growth (Rodrigo) - Questioning societal assumptions through Td Research (Moritz) - Up-welling sustainability through Td research (Sola) - Conditions for collective action (Ranjini) - Local management practices and corresponding ecological outcomes (Ranjini)
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- What is knowledge in an intercultural and Td context? (Paolo) - How to horizontalize academy-society relations for knowledge co-construction? (Paolo) - Build organizations for alternative economies (Paolo) - Which relationships do we need to build, nurture and foster for a sustainable future?
(Paolo) - Value different forms of knowledge without romanticize or essentialize (Paolo) - Governance of sustainability? Global? UN? - Growth waits? - SDG’S - Indigenous local knowledge – intercultural dialogue (Marcus) - Decolonizing sustainability research (Sola) - Decentralizing sustainability science through advancement of shared best practices (Sola)
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Annex 1. Participants
Given name
Surname Country of origin
Institutional background
Olusola Matthew
Adeoye Nigeria Foundation for Environmental Mediation, Nigeria (Co-Founder)
Fonda Jane
Awuor Kenya Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, National Aquaculture Research Development and Training Centre (NARDTC), Socioeconomist
Marcus Vinícius
Carvalho Garcia
Brazil Inventário Nacional da Diversidade Linguística/CGIR/DPI, Brasília/DF
Beatriz Delgado Aranda
Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA), Bolivia
Angel Rodrigo
Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico, Master Student - Sustainability Science
Gregory Mero Dowo
Zimbabwe PhD Candidate, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zimbabwe
Ranjini Rebecca
Murali India PhD Candidate, Snow Leopard Trust and Nature Conservation Foundation, in affiliation with Manipal University
Heliodoro Ochoa-García
Mexico PhD Candidate at Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, and ITESO Jesuit University of Guadalajara
Paolo Eugenido
Perasso Cerda
Chile Ethnographic Researcher, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Campus Villarrica
Januária Pereira Mello
Brazil Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, Superintendência Regional do Rio de Janeiro
Inta Rivas Chile Universidad de Chile, Project Coordinator, Vice-Rectory for Research and Development
Juliana Mercon Brazil Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, Professor at the Institute of Educational Research
Beate Littig Germany Institute for Advances Studies Vienna, Head of the Department of Sociology and Senior Researcher of the division Socio-ecological transformation
Julian Parra Fernández Chile PhD candidate, Universidad Católica de Chile, Public Management Master