Let’s Institute a Transdisciplinary Academy

The post explores the urgent need for innovative solutions to tackle global challenges, particularly climate change, through the establishment of transdisciplinary science. The author recounts their 30-year journey creating the knowledge federation prototype, which fosters collective meaning-making. This framework emphasizes a holistic approach, integrating diverse perspectives to address complex societal issues while promoting awareness and critical examination of prevailing thought patterns.

Transdisciplinarity Is a Way to Change Course

The human race is hurtling towards disaster. It is absolutely essential to find a way to change course. – Aurelio Peccei The word course in this report’s title is a reference to Peccei’s call to action. He issued it in the opening lines of a brief book titled One Hundred Pages for the Future. The …

We M U S T Learn to Think in a New Way

In spite of great productivity in particulars, dogmatic rigidity prevailed in matters of principle: In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton’s laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction. – …