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SHAPE-ID Collaborating on River Time Initiative

SHAPE-ID is pleased to collaborate on this exciting art-science initiative from swissnex, led by artist, writer and philosopher Jonathan Keats. River Time is a multifaceted civic initiative intended to bolster public appreciation of river systems – and people’s understanding of their significance as climate indicators – by enlisting rivers as timekeepers. Register for the event on 16 November here River Time is also a case study in art-and-science collaboration, which will serve as the basis for research on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research by the Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Drawing on insights from SHAPE-ID, with the involvement of SHAPE-ID…

Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity – creating maps for the maze and our labyrinth

Keisha Taylor Wesselink, SHAPE-ID Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, reflects on her own journey through the 'labyrinth' of interdisciplinarity and her efforts to map this space for the SHAPE-ID project.

First SHAPE-ID Remote Learning Case Workshop Takes Place

We were delighted to continue our SHAPE-ID learning case workshop series after a long delay with our first virtual workshop held on 10-11 September. This was originally due to take place in person in Zurich in May but was postponed due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Partners in ETH Zurich have been working tirelessly over the summer to redesign the workshop for the new format and the workshop was a very successful re-start. Co-organised with td-net, the Network for Transdisciplnary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, the workshop brought together participants from across the world to explore how…

On the exhaustion of the interdisciplinary scholar

Jennifer Edmond, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, co-director of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities and President of the Board of Directors of the pan-European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH-EU, writes of the expectation on interdisciplinary scholars to constantly defend the value of their work.

SHAPE-ID at Vitae Connections 2020 | Capacity Building for Interdisciplinary Research

In this special panel discussion organised as part of the Vitae Connections Week 2020 online conference, SHAPE-ID partners Catherine Lyall and Isabel Fletcher and invited guest panellist Geoffrey Crossick discussed the challenges of building capacity for interdisciplinary research in higher education institutions.

SHAPE-ID Learning Case Workshops Intermediate Working Paper Available

We are pleased to share the preliminary results of the first three SHAPE-ID learning case workshops in a new working paper, available for download here. The working paper presents insights from the following workshops: Positioning the Arts and Humanities to Lead Research Addressing Societal Challenges (organised by Trinity College Dublin, 2-3 December 2019) Bringing an Environmental Humanities Lens to Bear on Interdiscipilnary Collaboration among AHSS and between AHSS and STEM (organised by the University of Edinburgh, 20-21 January 2020) Inter/Transdisciplinary Educational Models that Support Sustainable Urban Transformation (organised by ISINNOVA in collaboration with the TrUST project at Politecnico di Torino,…

Public humanities and interdisciplinarity – laying the groundwork in the classroom

Niamh NicGhabhann, Assistant Dean, Research, for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of Limerick and Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance from September 2020, discusses how undergraduate and postgraduate education in the public humanities can help build interdisciplinary capacity in higher education.

SHAPE-ID Learning Case Workshops Rescheduled for September 2020

We were disappointed to have to postpone three of our learning case workshops in March, April and May due to the coronavirus crisis. We are pleased to announce that we have now rescheduled these workshops, which will take place virtually in September to avoid further delays and explore the potential of online collaborative methodologies for inter- and transdisciplinary research. The workshop topics are: Intersections or reconfigurations? Arts and Humanities integration in inter- and trans-disciplinary research (organised by ETH Zurich in collaboration with td-net) Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenges and scenarios of collaborative learning, working and living with machines (co-robotics) (organised by…

Pathways to Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences integration: a policymaker’s perspective on bridging the research-policy gap

Mary Doyle, Public Policy Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub and and former Deputy Secretary General in the Department of Education and Skills of the Irish Government addresses the challenge of improving AHSS integration pathways in inter- and transdisciplinary research from a policymaker’s perspective.

Universities need to change, can change and are changing

Gemma O'Sullivan from Trinity College Dublin and CHARM-EU reflects on the challenges of explaining what it means to be transdisciplinary and the experiences of building transdisciplinary Knowledge Creating Teams as part of the CHARM-EU European University Alliance.