Design, one piece of the puzzle: A conceptual and practical perspective on transdisciplinary design

Transdisciplinary research is claimed to be essential in tackling today’s complex societal challenges. Transdisciplinarity includes collaboration and integration across academic disciplines, non-academic ways of knowing, and the ‘real world’ of citizens, professionals and other stakeholders. Design can contribute to transdisciplinarity by...

A pedagogical framework and a transdisciplinary design approach to innovate HCI education

In the current work, we introduce Applab as a pedagogical<br/>framework and a transdisciplinary design approach to innovate HCI education.<br/>Students do not work for a client, but work together with urban stakeholders to<br/>better frame the problem in order to deal with societal challenges. In this way,<br/>Applab embraces design thinking as...