Wed 6 June 4pm: The DMU Transdisciplinary Audit: Results and Feedback

Teatime session in the Transdisciplinary Common Room (TDC), Fletcher Quad. Join us at 4pm. There's always a pot of tea on the go.

The DMU Transdisciplinary Audit attracted over 100 responses. What do they tell us about transdisciplinarity at DMU? Find out at this presentation and discuss the issues and opportunities ahead. With Carl Holland, Dr Kumba Jallow, Prof Sue Thomas, and Prof James Woudhuysen.

Wed 20 June 4pm: Fixing Food: diaries, phone calls & iPhones

Teatime session in the Transdisciplinary Common Room (TDC), Fletcher Quad. Join us at 4pm. There's always a pot of tea on the go.

Fixing Food: An interactive session discussing how transdisciplinary working could benefit the food industry, nutrition and public health. With Dr Graham Basten, HLS

Wed 9 May 4pm: Can beauty be a measure of transdisciplinary success?

Teatime session in the Transdisciplinary Common Room (TDC), Fletcher Quad. Join us at 4pm. There's always a pot of tea on the go.

Drawing on the idea of 'fit for purpose', I review and consider what success might look like in situations where the normal ‘knowledge affirming practices and rhetoric’ of the disciplines do not apply. Transdisciplinary research explicitly rejects such frameworks of knowledge affirmation. I consider the role of 'beauty', understood as the 'pre-conceptual ordering of experience' and 'practice-tracking' as useful indicators of success. Both draw on the counter-enlightenment, and look backwards to the scholastic era, asserting the rejection of the enlightenment account of discipline based knowledge. Paper at: http://dmu.academia.edu/RichardDavies/

Richard Davies, Youth, Community and Education Division, HLS

Wed 2 May 4pm: The Empathic Civilisation

Following on from last week's study of a brain scientist's inside view of her stroke, destroying the functions of her left brain hemisphere; we will look at the discovery of mirror neurons and the implications for science, education and our approach to "Civilization"

Professor Martin Rieser will host the discussion following this entertaining RSA Video animation

Jackie Calderwood :Modelling with Metaphor and Transdisciplinary Research

Wed 18 April 4pm 

Modelling with Metaphor and Transdisciplinary Research 

  

Jackie Calderwood gave a sociable, participatory introduction to   Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, inviting the audience to explore their visions for a flourishing TDC. 

See the website for links to  videos.

Her Presentation can be found here:

http://www.slideshare.net/jackiecalderwood/teatime-at-the-tdc-modelling

Wed 25 April 4pm Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

Teatime session in the Transdisciplinary Common Room (TDC), Fletcher Quad. Join us at 4pm. There's always a pot of tea on the go.

A chance to view - or re-view - one of the most popular TED videos ever:

 (photo credit: Kip May)

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness...

Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."

"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."
Jill Bolte Taylor