Hanns-J. Neubert: When Knowledge Fails
Hanns-J. Neubert | 02 September 20251 September 2009, Hamburg, GermanyGoing back home by car from the ‘Towards Knowledge Democracy’ conference in Leiden, the many hours of long, slow going in a traffic jam up to the border with Germany gave me the opportunity to think about two simp…
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Georgina Aboud: The unravelling
Georgina Aboud | 30 August 2025We live with uncomfortable truths and we live in uncertain times, ‘towards knowledge democracy’ asked us to examine different knowledge processes, pathways of governance and visions for the future. It wanted us to consider how many different acto…
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Georgina Aboud: Power always drives out puzzling – part two
Georgina Aboud | 27 August 2025We know the world is built on uncomfortable truths, and the seminar ‘Inconvenient knowledge and Policy-making’ shone a torchlight on a truth which we all know but wish was different. From within the discussions about approaches, disciplines and in…
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Georgina Aboud: Just do it
Georgina Aboud | 27 August 2025"Diplomacy is about surviving to the next century. Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon." Whilst this is a quote from a 1980s British sitcom called Yes Minister, it might have been taken from the session I attended on the f…
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Ir. Geesje Kuit: Synergies and tensions
Geesje Kuit | 26 August 2025The wrap-up chair from day one of the Conference, Mr Roel in ‘t Veld, gave the impression that the first day really was a serious one. The transition from a knowledge ECONOMY towards a knowledge DEMOCRACY means that the society should change the t…
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Pepijn Jansen: Reflexive science: no unity without discord
Pepijn Jansen | 26 August 2025Now two-thirds through the conference, I can partly say that I have been right in my previous blog: old wine in new bags. A lot of new phrases to say things we already knew. Or at least, some of us might have known. As an anthropologist, I am trai…
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Video: Chris Peterson
26 August 2025Chris Peterson discusses transdisciplinary research with conference blogger Georgina Aboud. Filmed on a mobile phone….
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Ir. Geesje Kuit: Creating the landscape
Geesje Kuit | 26 August 2025It was an interesting morning. What happens between science and practice? The state of the art of ‘Transdisciplinary Research’ was illustrated using regional cases that deal with landscape and transformation. It was remarked that, with the acting…
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Ir. Geesje Kuit: Transdisciplinary research and social learning
Geesje Kuit | 26 August 2025This session made clear the need and significance of ‘social learning’ in different contexts: for public matters, for sustainable development, and for corporate development looking for sustainability. Social learning is needed to improve adaptive…
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