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The Swiss Conference on Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD-CH 25) On November 19, 2025, our Translating Transformations team had the pleasure of hosting two identical workshops at the Swiss Conference on Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD-CH 25) at the University of Lausanne. Organized by td-net, Switzerland’s Network for Transdisciplinary Research, the conference gathered around 90 participants from across Switzerland—researchers, practitioners, and others committed to the

Over the past months, our team has been exploring a big question: how can we promote and integrate critical social science (CSS) literacy to improve transdisciplinary research projects that aim for transformative change ( TTCIs )? By CSS, we mean scholarship that addresses power dynamics in society. This focus is at the core of our SNSF-funded project Translating Transformations. In the first phase of our work, we took a close look at two Swiss-based inter- and transdisciplin

How Can ITD Research Better Account for Power and Agency? On 18 February 2025, the Translating Transformations team co-organized a...

Putting Theory into Practice – Testing our First CSS Literacy Tools From November 4 to 8, 2024, the Translating Transformations team...

How can we improve the efficacy of transdisciplinary transformative change initiatives (TTCIs)? This question lies at the heart of our...