Toolkit

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Introductions with New Metaphor Cards

Facilitating a check-in: introducing participants to each other by sharing their background and personal reflections.

Embodied mapping

Becoming aware of each other’s disciplinary biases and assumptions by physically positioning along an axis that represents a spectrum.

Empathy map

Exploring different perspectives on a theme and how they are rooted in disciplinary traditions.

Mapping the knowledge landscape

Helping participants map out their individual and collective knowledge landscape.

Listening levels

Creating consciousness of different levels of listening, helping participants practise their listening skills.

Unravelling interdisciplinarity

Exploring and understanding the differences between multi-, inter-  and transdisciplinarity.

Interplanetary travel

Inviting participants to depart from a place of curiosity and wonder in their conversations with others and supports active listening.

Stick exercise

Surfacing reflections on collaboration and finding common ground, through an experiential activity using sticks and movement.

Focaccia method: Integrating research questions

Support processes of knowledge integration by offering a process to generate a variety of possible research questions.

Explain your research to an alien

Understand the disciplinary perspectives that team members bring along in a fun way.

Icebreaker: Many uses of an object

Generate energy, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to support participants in approaching serious topics or design challenges in a creative way.

Icebreaker: Paperclip, pen, paper

Analysing a problem from the position of each interested discipline/background and identify commonalities and differences.

Expert – beginner

Experience how interdisciplinary collaborations require us to move between positions of  ‘being an expert’ and ‘being a beginner’.

Five whys

Understand motivations, values and emotions underlying the collaboration.

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