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- Title
Integrating systems and design thinking in transdisciplinary case studies.
- Authors
Pohl, Christian; Pearce, BinBin; Mader, Marlene; Senn, Lisette; Krütli, Pius
- Abstract
Umweltproblemlösen (Tackling environmental problems) is a Bachelor-level course that carries on a long tradition of transdisciplinary (td) case studies in the Environ mental Sciences curriculum at ETH Zurich. Td case studies introduce students to key features of transdisciplinarity. Two corres ponding learning goals of the case studies are 1. to not only analyse problems, but to also suggest solutions, and 2. to take the complexity of the tackled socio-ecological system into account. In the new course we address both learning goals by integrating systems and design thinking. We present this approach in detail to show how features of transdisciplinarity are transferred to learning contexts. We compare it to the approaches of other td case studies by asking how each interprets and addresses the two learning goals. The comparison shows that the case study approaches implicitly impart different ideas about how a td environmental scientist should support societal problem solving. A key difference to previous approach es is that the new course asks students to enter deeply into the world of practice and the stakeholders' divergent needs.
- Subjects
EIDGENOSSISCHE Technische Hochschule; DESIGN thinking; SYSTEMS theory; CASE studies; GOAL (Psychology); LEARNING goals
- Publication
GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science & Society, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 4, p258
- ISSN
0940-5550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14512/gaia.29.4.11