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Starting well
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.
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.
Working together
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.
Explain your research to an alien
Understand the disciplinary perspectives that team members bring along in a fun way.
Expert – beginner
Experience how interdisciplinary collaborations require us to move between positions of ‘being an expert’ and ‘being a beginner’.
Sharing results and exploring impact
Focaccia method: Integrating research questions
Support processes of knowledge integration by offering a process to generate a variety of possible research questions.
Other tools
Self-assessment tool
Reflect on your competences, determine your strengths and weaknesses, and set goals for competences you may want to improve.
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