Producing Shared Understanding for Digital and Social Innovation: Bridging Divides with Transdisciplinary Information Experience Concepts and Methods

In the Anthropocene age, this book introduces unifying bridging concepts and emerging methods for transdisciplinary projects to produce shared understanding and improve quality of life. It highlights the importance of transferable, lateral mindsets and soft skills for co-designing information experiences that create meaningful moments of shared understanding.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 173 pages
Publication date: 04 September 2021
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

In the Anthropocene era, where human activities have a profound impact on the planet, it is crucial to establish a harmonious relationship between people, technology, and the environment. This book aims to bridge the gaps between these three entities and foster a shared understanding of their interactions, experiences, and impacts across ecosystems.

To achieve this, it introduces two key concepts: informational waves and transdisciplinary resonance. Informational waves refer to the flow of information and knowledge across disciplines, while transdisciplinary resonance involves the integration of different perspectives and expertise to create a comprehensive understanding of complex problems.

The book also presents emerging methods for transdisciplinary projects that focus on specific moments, paradoxes, and dialogues for digital social innovation and sustainable development partnership goals. These methods aim to improve the quality of life by promoting meaningful interactions and collaborations between individuals and organizations from various fields.

Shared understanding is at the heart of this endeavor. It refers to the way people from different fields and perspectives communicate, curate, embody, intuit, and reflect on shared responsibilities within social ecologies. The author emphasizes the importance of co-designing for information experiences that create meaningful moments of shared understanding. To achieve this, the author highlights essential transferable mindsets and soft skills, such as knowing the gaps through imagination, creativity, listening, and noticing, and bridging the gaps through problem emergence, multiple stakeholders, informed learning, and personal change.

By adopting these approaches, we can create a more sustainable and inclusive future where human activities align with the needs of the planet and its ecosystems. The Anthropocene age presents an opportunity to forge new connections, develop innovative solutions, and build a better world for ourselves and future generations.

Weight: 259g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811573743
Edition number: 1st ed. 2020