The workshop takes place in the context of the preparatory module to establish an Einstein Center for Population Diversity in Berlin. Within this centre, transdisciplinary research projects will be an important pillar of the innovative projects related to increasing diversity in family forms, related kin, wider networks and population. The purpose of our workshop is to present best practices from research and discuss factors of success that interesting projects on very diverse topics have in common. We invite experts and interested participants to exchange their ideas and experiences with us in an interactive format.
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Agenda
- 10:00 - Welcome
- 10:05 - Marion Mehring (ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research): Methods for transdisciplinary integration - lessons learnt from case studies in different cultural contexts
- 10:20 - Gordian Haas (nexus Institute): Opportunities and challenges of participation in research and research policy
- 10:35 - Jodi Sturge (University of Groningen): A co-design approach to explore housing decisions for people living with dementia
- 10:50 - Gabriele Wendorf (TU Berlin): Shaping transformation processes in the field of mobility together with local stakeholders
- 11:05 - Open Discussion
Speaker
Marion Mehring
Dr. Marion Mehring is a research scientist at ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research and head of the research unit Biodiversity and People. She studied geoecology at the University of Bayreuth. She wrote her doctoral thesis at the University of Greifswald. In her thesis she focused on buffer zone effectiveness in forest biosphere reserve management. She is an expert in social-ecological biodiversity research: sustainable use of ecosystem services, perception and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services and disservices.
Her research focus is on biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, inter- and transdisciplinary research processes, and social-ecological systems.
Jodi Sturge
Jodi Sturge is a postdoc researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen (NL). She is also a research associate with Adema Architecten, where she advises on the design of healthcare facilities and community development. Prior to moving to the Netherlands, she worked for over ten years in British Columbia, Canada in the social housing sector in planning, policy and operations.
She is interested in linking research to design through best practices, conducting user-experience research and post-occupancy evaluations to explore how spaces can be better designed to support social sustainability, positive health and well-being.
Gordian Haas
PD Dr. Gordian Haas is a research fellow at the nexus institute. He is a rehabilitated philosopher who wrote his doctoral thesis on rational belief-forming processes. He is primarily involved in the field of deliberative democracy at the intersection between politics, society and science. Since 2019, Gordian Haas has been working as an expert for the European Commission and regularly evaluates projects in the field of education and research.
His work focuses on the philosophy of science in general and the analysis of democratic decision-making procedures and criteria of scientific significance in particular.
Gabriele Wendorf
Dr. Gabriele Wendorf is head of the Centre for Technology and Society (ZTG) at the TU Berlin since 2014. From 2008 until 2014, she was Vice-President of TU Berlin. Before that, she was responsible for a chair in economics and, between 2002 and 2007, she was heading the interdisciplinary junior research group "Converting instead of building new: socio-ecological potentials in post-war housing stock" funded by the BMBF.
Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects onsustainability, in particular on mobility and sustainable urban development.