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Transdisciplinary (TD) Dialogue: Complexity in Transdisciplinary Research: Creativity, Serendipity, and the Future of Academia

October 22, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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The University of Pretoria’s Future Africa (FA) invites you to the fourth instalment of the Transdisciplinary (TD) Dialogue titled Complexity in Transdisciplinary Research: Creativity, Serendipity, and the Future of Academia , presented by Associate Professor Frédéric Darbellay, from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm SAST

Location: Online on Zoom

Register to join the dialogue: https://bit.ly/3XNy8SD

For more information, please contact Dr Hester du Plessis at hester.duplessis@up.ac.za

In this dialogue, Professor Darbellay will discuss aspects of complexity in research such as: creativity as the foundation for TD, serendipity as part of the TD research process, and the notion of a post-disciplinary academic world in waiting.

The dialogue will be moderated by Dr Neeraj Mistry, Future Africa’s Deputy Director.

Speaker

Frederic Darbellay

Prof. Frédéric Darbellay

Frédéric Darbellay is an Associate Professor at the University of Geneva (Faculty of
Psychology and Educational Sciences), head of the Inter- and Transdisciplinarity Unit within
the Interfaculty Centre for the Rights of the Child (CIDE), and Deputy Director of the CIDE.
His teaching and research address interdisciplinarity in its epistemological, methodological
and organizational/institutional dimensions. His work focuses on the study of the
complexity of the theoretical and practical questions faced today by researchers who work
from, between and beyond disciplinary boundaries in a perspective of discovery, creativity
and innovation. His fields of research are located in the field of human and social sciences
and educational sciences as well as in that of natural, life and technical sciences, as well as
at the dialogical crossroads between these different scientific cultures. His research and
teaching focuses on the study of inter- and transdisciplinarity as a creative process of
knowledge production between and beyond disciplines. He authored multiple publications
on the theory and practice of inter- and transdisciplinarity through various scientific fields,
across Arts, Humanities, Social, Natural, Life and Technical Sciences. Frédéric Darbellay is a
member of the Td-net (Network for Transdisciplinary Research) Scientific Advisory Board of
the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS)
Board of Directors and Scientific Council of the Global Research Institute of Paris (GRIP). He
is the editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia for Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary research
(2024).

Details

Date:
October 22, 2024
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

Online on Zoom

Organiser

Future Africa

Details

Date:
October 22, 2024
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Category:
Event Tags:

Venue

Online on Zoom

Organiser

Future Africa