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“I would have never expected that a 30 min. flipchart session could be so helpful in clarifying the core aspects of a blended model for multidisciplinary integration in higher education! The UCCRN_edu [Erasmus +] project will benefit a lot from such valuable advice.”
Dr. Mattia Leone, architect and associate professor, Department of Architecture (DiARC) University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Also co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network - European Hub (UCCRN) and Coordinator of the Erasmus+ UCCRN-EDU project.
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In an increasingly complex world, interdisciplinary curricula, and co-creation of knowledge around complex problems seems inevitable. However, this may be hard to achieve at your institute, where internal logic actually tends to encourage you to silo your knowledge. Or, you may find that robust disciplinary expertise is needed first, focusing more on the skills needed to collaborate with experts from other disciplines.
Our Studio partners with you, to synthesise disciplines and their respective knowledge and make sense out of it all at a practical level. Coming from a robust background in both anthropology, with its intrinsic focus on bridging silos, and solid educational design, we work towards concrete outputs that you can use for your course, training or degree.
We work lightly, agile, in between people and departments, and focus on the technical dimension (see our value system) to keep things simple and offer you concrete material at the practical level.
As you aim for co-creation of courses/degrees and collaboration across departments, faculties and beyond, we keep in mind your evidence-based (neuroscience) and pedagogical angle to curriculum design.
Transdisciplinary education or learning takes place through collective and collaborative interactions across disciplines (e.g., arts, natural sciences, and social sciences) and with actors external to the higher education institution (Fam et al., 2018). A transdisciplinary approach places academics alongside non-academic actors. A reflexive, multi-stakeholder learning process can lead to a better understanding of complex societal problems, such as climate change, poverty or health inequalities.
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Image: Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary explained, with the latter being visualised as co-creation of knowledge with non scientific knowledge cultures. Reproduced by permission ofRoderick J. Lawrence. For reference see bottom of the page.
“You take our ideas, visions, inspiration - and you anchor us.”
A senior manager in a zero emission flooring company, looking for a transition trajectory and -curriculum, Interface (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)
“You [Tikvah] are able to learn/absorb the subject that I’m trying to produce, and you transform it to a methodological angle, and organise it is such a way that it directs me, and I can do things [in my course] in a more effective and efficient way”.
Tannya Pico, PhD candidate who participated in StudioBlended’s resilience course where she received advice on her course design. Her research is on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and transdisciplinarity, Quito, Ecuador Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
For her most recent pubication see TRIALOG 144 - ECUADOR - After Habitat III 2022-2023
Curios? Feel free to contact our independent senior advisor directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
Big ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended
Roderick J.L. (2021) Creating Built Environments. New York, Routledge.
Resilient education that stands the test of time - by design.
Our Studio partners with you, to synthesise disciplines and their respective knowledge and make sense out of it all at a practical level. Coming from a robust background in both anthropology, with its intrinsic focus on bridging silos, and solid educational design, we work towards concrete outputs that you can use for your course, training or degree.
We work lightly, agile, in between people and departments, and focus on the technical dimension (see our value system) to keep things simple and offer you concrete material at the practical level.
As you aim for co-creation of courses/degrees and collaboration across departments, faculties and beyond, we keep in mind your evidence-based (neuroscience) and pedagogical angle to curriculum design.
Transdisciplinary education or learning takes place through collective and collaborative interactions across disciplines (e.g., arts, natural sciences, and social sciences) and with actors external to the higher education institution (Fam et al., 2018). A transdisciplinary approach places academics alongside non-academic actors. A reflexive, multi-stakeholder learning process can lead to a better understanding of complex societal problems, such as climate change, poverty or health inequalities.
Image: Multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary explained, with the latter being visualised as co-creation of knowledge with non scientific knowledge cultures. Reproduced by permission ofRoderick J. Lawrence. For reference see bottom of the page.
Key projects
“You take our ideas, visions, inspiration - and you anchor us.”
A senior manager in a zero emission flooring company, looking for a transition trajectory and -curriculum, Interface (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia)
“You [Tikvah] are able to learn/absorb the subject that I’m trying to produce, and you transform it to a methodological angle, and organise it is such a way that it directs me, and I can do things [in my course] in a more effective and efficient way”.
Tannya Pico, PhD candidate who participated in StudioBlended’s resilience course where she received advice on her course design. Her research is on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and transdisciplinarity, Quito, Ecuador Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
For her most recent pubication see TRIALOG 144 - ECUADOR - After Habitat III 2022-2023
Related publications
FollowsCurios? Feel free to contact our independent senior advisor directly:
tikvah@studioblended.com
More design angles we use
Technical resilienceBig ideas
Paradigm shifts/decade strong
Simplicity and decluttering
Human resilience
Modular
Innovative and deep pedagogy
Assesment / evaluation
Time dimension
Evidence-based design
Financial health and resilience by (re)design
Multi- Inter- and transdisciplinary
Flexibilisation and personalisation
Blended
References
Fam, D., Leimbach, T., Kelly, S., Hitchens, L., Callen, M. (2018). Meta-considerations for Planning, Introducing and Standardising Inter and Transdisciplinary Learning in Higher Degree Institutions. In: Fam, D., Neuhauser, L., Gibbs, P. (eds) Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93743-4_7Roderick J.L. (2021) Creating Built Environments. New York, Routledge.
Resilient education that stands the test of time - by design.
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tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
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Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc)
Independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, director.
tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69
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STUDIOBLENDED Non Profit Foundation
Registration Chamber of Commerce
KvK-number 86242598 (Dutch)
VAT identification number
NL 86 39 07 29 5 B01
Bankaccount
NL40 INGB 0709 6156 04
SWIFT/BIC: INGBNL2A
StudioBlended Foundation
