Conference
TRED Community day June 12th, 2025
Curious about how others are approaching inter- and transdisciplinary research and learning? Want to deep dive into different approaches?
On June 12th, you can be a part of the exciting programme exploring different approaches and themes related to inter- and transdisciplinary science. The focus of this interactive day is knowledge exchange and community building around inter-, transdisciplinary, and transformative approaches. To help with the community building, we’ll provide coffee breaks, a lunch, and close off with a mixer borrel.
What will be taking place? More sessions are being finalised, but please see the programme and detailed session information below, and don’t forget to click on the registration button above if want to join. Participation when registered is free, but as we want to support our amazing session leaders and avoid food waste, there is a no-show fee.
Everyone within WUR working on inter- and transdisciplinarity in all its forms are welcome to join. Come and interact with (new) networks, experience different approaches, and link up to the WUR-wide inter- and transdisciplinary community!
Programme
Morning
| Time | Activity/ Theme | Session Name | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00-9:15 | Walk in | ||
| 09:15-09:45 | Plenary Session | TRED community day kick-off | Jillian Student |
| 9:45-11:15 | Approach | How can individual living labs really contribute to agrifood and marine related sustainability transitions? | Irene Bouwma |
| Citizen Science / Desigining with communities | Alanya den Boer and Annemarie van Paassen | ||
| Future literacy: building anticipatory capacities in transdisciplinary collaboration | Mareike Smolka | ||
| Developing Transdisciplinary Professionals: student and professionals as co-learners in transdisciplinary mixed classrooms | Sarah de Vries and Carla Oonk | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Break | Time for a breather | |
| 11:45-12:45 | Mixer | Reflecting together: a journey through stories, images, and dialogue | Anke Swanenberg |
| Just enough structuring at the edge of chaos in inter- and transdisciplinary programmes | Barbara van Mierlo and Harriette Bos | ||
| Co-create a handbook for enabling Science/Art collaboration | Tossa Harding and Meghann Ormond | ||
| Dealing with polarisation- a dialogues approach | Simone Ritzer | ||
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch | Moment to refuel and connect |
Afternoon
| Time | Activity/Theme | Session Name | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:45-15:15 | Approach | Envisioning future human-nature relations: encounters of empathetic imagining | Kasper Kok and Jay Gietzelt |
| Lessons learned from designing and playing serious games in transdisciplinary research and education | Gabriel Moinet, Ina Möller, Mathilde Hagens, Gildas Asogba | ||
| Discover Tangible Landscapes: An approach to experience direct impact of choices with a 3D Sand Model | Marlies van Ree and Xiaolu Hu | ||
| Freedom tours: A co-creative approach to walking tour design focused on freedom through Gender and Queer Lenses | Meghann Ormond | ||
| UnBox - Journeying through collaborations in the lands of metaphors | Niki Puskás | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | Break | Time for a breather | |
| 15:45-16:45 | Mixer | Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research - organisational considerations | Nina de Roo |
| From knowledge to impact: The Possibilities of Creative Practices in Research | Marlies van Ree | ||
| Multifunctional Quay Walls of the future | Rohan Daniel and Bas Kramer | ||
| 17:00-18:00 | Drinks | Celebrate the day and WUR community |
It is also possible to register for a half day and participate only in the morning or the afternoon.
Session Information
Morning Approach
How can individual living labs really contribute to agrifood and marine related sustainability transitions?
Living labs are currently seen as an important mechanism to contribute to sustainability transitions. Based on a multilevel perspective we will review the roles Living Labs might play in transitions. Using a quick scan approach we will explore how the Living labs in which participants are involved are currently positioned and how they might enhance their contribution.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Irene Bouwma
Citizen Science/Designing With Communities
How could Citizen Science contribute to sustainability transitions? Join us to further explore how to (co)design Citizen Science for transformative change.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Alanya den Boer and Annemarie van Paassen
Future literacy: building anticipatory capacities in transdisciplinary collaboration
Visions of the future circulating in transdisciplinary innovation research tend to echo dominant hype-fear imaginaries. In this interactive session, we will explore future literacy: the capacity to recognize, reflect on, and potentially alter anticipatory assumptions for imagining plural, alternative, and rich futures.
What you need to bring: a pen.
Led by: Mareike Smolka
Developing Transdisciplinary Professionals: student and professionals as co-learners in transdisciplinary mixed classrooms
We need transdisciplinary professionals who are able to tackle or deal with wicked problems. Transdisciplinary Mixed Classrooms, an innovative learning concept, are where students and professionals act together as co-learners in education. These classrooms can support boundary crossing skills, which are needed to become a transdisciplinary professional. During this session participants will learn about transdisciplinary mixed classrooms. Next, they will experience how boundary crossing can enable collaborating in diverse inter- and transdisciplinary settings.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Sarah de Vries and Carla Oonk
Morning Mixer
Reflecting together: a journey through stories, images, and dialogue
In this interactive session, we explore the power of reflection together. Through storytelling, dialogue, and visual prompts, participants will engage in different modes of reflection that support learning, connection, and transformation across disciplines and roles. No prior experience is needed—just a willingness to share, listen, and explore.
What you need to bring: a phone and a pen
Led by: Anke Swanenberg
Just enough structuring at the edge of chaos in inter- and transdisciplinary programmes
Complex problems addressed in inter- and transdisciplinary programmes need some problem structuring in order to develop and explore specific, time and-space bound opportunities for improvement. We will identify the degree and types of problem structuring by management of inter- and transdisciplinary programmes and discuss how these influence the action perspective of the researchers involved. With the (finished) WUR investment programme Transformative Bioeconomies as an example, participants will reflect on their experiences in a programme they were involved in.
For researchers with experience (leading, managing, participating in) in an inter- and transdisciplinary research.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Barbara van Mierlo and Harriette Bos
Co-create a handbook for enabling Science/Art collaboration
SciArt collaborations are a powerful means for leveraging societal impact and for seeing the work differently. Yet many kinds of institutional barriers exist for these types of collaborations. We want to develop a guiding document to support anyone who wants to initiate or engage in a SciArt project. During this workshop we would like you to co-create this document with us.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Tossa Harding and Meghann Ormond
Dealing with polarisation- a dialogues approach
Dealing with polarisation- a dialogues approach
Polarisation is a hot topic. While polarisation seems undesirable, it is not necessarily the case. But it is valuable to understand its dynamics when conflicts arise and be aware of ways to depolarise – if that’s your aim. In this session, we will explore how to recognise different poles and navigate between them.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Simone Ritzer
Afternoon Approach
Envisioning future human-nature relations: encounters of empathetic imagining
In this visioning session, we will be exploring future (positive) human-nature relations. We will be experimenting with creative techniques that draw on empathetic imagining and multispecies justice, seeking to engage with perspectives of (nonhuman) nature in the visioning process.
What you need to bring: Willingness to try out some creative methods 😊
Led by: Kasper Kok and Jay Gietzelt
Lessons learned from designing and playing serious games in transdisciplinary research and education
This Approach-based session shares lessons learned from designing and playing serious games in transdisciplinary research and education. Two games from the WUR Games Hub community will be played/tested: the Carbon Farming Game (Ina Möller & Gabriel Moinet, PhD course "Grounding Carbon Farming") and the QUEEN Game on crop-livestock integration (Gildas Assogba, SESAM project). In a shared space, participants will rotate between both games in a mini-carousel format, exploring how serious games foster dialogue and bring together diverse perspectives and disciplines on complex challenges.
Led by: Gabriel Moinet, Ina Möller, Mathilde Hagens, Gildas Asogba
What you need to bring: playfulness!
Discover Tangible Landscapes: An approach to experience direct impact of choices with a 3D Sand Model
We are looking for ways that people can engage with changes to landscapes and their consequences. During this session, you will be introduced to Tangible Landscape, a 3D approach that allows you to explore the outcomes of various landscape choices. This will give you a tangible sense of what it entails. After a brief introduction, you will have the opportunity to try out a demonstration using a small test model. This hands-on experience will be followed by a dialogue on how this approach, along with similar methods, can be beneficial for research and decision-making processes.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Xiaolu Hu and Marlies van Ree
Freedom tours: A co-creative approach to walking tour design focused on freedom through Gender and Queer Lenses
Freedom tours Wageningen offers interactive walking tours that explore the complexities of freedom through the diverse experiences of Wageningen residents. Connecting local history with global struggles, these tours inspire reflection, dialogue, and action to protect and expand freedom in inclusive ways. The tours are designed by a co-creative process including storytelling and place based learning. In this approach session you will experience, and we will ask your input on, a prototype of a tour co-created by Freedom Tours Wageningen.
What you need to bring: a bicycle
Led by: Meghann Ormond
UnBox - Journeying through collaborations in the lands of metaphors
Led by: Niki Puskás
Metaphors can help make complex concepts more tangible and help people find common ground. UnBox is a game-like process that facilitates collaborative exploration via physicalised metaphors (e.g. boat, lighthouse, see UnBox). In this session, we invite you to discover UnBox, where you will engage with the metaphors in different spaces. This will encourage and help you to learn how to use metaphors in your collaborations and the multiple ways they can be physically represented.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Afternoon Mixer
Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research - organisational considerations
The practice of inter- and transdisciplinary research (ITD) research within the current research system is like navigating a maze with many possible opportunities for shaping collaborations between disciplines and with diverse societal actors, but with high uncertainty on the potential success of the chosen path and the presence of hurdles along the way. We propose ways to overcome these hurdles. In this session we want to get your input to further refine our ideas how to reshape the maze of the current research system to strengthen its contribution to locally relevant and inclusive socio-technical and nature inclusive solutions.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Led by: Nina de Roo
From knowledge to impact: The Possibilities of Creative Practices in Research
Led by: Marlies van Ree
There is a growing belief that developing and spreading knowledge alone isn't enough to drive societal transformations; people need to be inspired and engaged. Creative practices, where artists and designers collaborate with researchers and societal actors, can bridge this gap through various forms like role plays, community development, storytelling, and VR experiences by touching upon emotions and values. In this session, we share insights and explore together how creative practices can contribute to societal transformations and other related research topics.
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Multifunctional Quay Walls of the future
This project uses an iterative Research Through Design (RTD) methodology to develop evidence-based, multifunctional design types for Amsterdam’s canalsscapes. Through a transdisciplinary approach involving experts such as ecologists, structural engineers, and heritage specialists, the project combines qualitative and quantitative methods to test and refine design solutions to produce a set of adaptable design guidelines for the city.
Led by: Rohan Daniel and Bas Kramer
What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity
Costs
We are providing the structure and the fuel (food). For this first edition, participation is free (when registered and attending)
Venue
The event will take place in the Forum and Orion buildings of the WUR campus. Information on specific rooms will follow later.