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The Challenges of Integration - Bammer-Bertalanffy-Seminar
The Challenges of Integration - Bammer-Bertalanffy-Seminar
Challenges
of
Integration
and
Implementation
in
Systems
Approaches
to
Complex
Problems:
Would
a
New
Discipline
Help?
Gabriele
Bammer
Overview
Challenges
and
consequences
Discipline
and
Big
Science
project
Integration
and
Implementation
Sciences
(I2S)
A
Plavour
of
the
I2S
Development
Drive
Next
steps
Lack of links between systems and inter-disciplinary networks Each with their own small conferences (about 200 people)
Fragmented
networks
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Lots
of
useful
concepts
and
methods
But
no
central
compilations
Therefore
hard
to
get:
overall
view
of
what
is
known
access
to
an
array
of
options
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Consequences
1. Intellectually
weak
-
no
agreed
body
of
work
-
no
links
between
theory
and
practice
-
dogma
2.
Politically
powerless
and
marginalised
(academic
decision
making
and
research
funding)
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Why
a
discipline?
Accepted
way
of
organising
and
transmitting
knowledge
internationally
College
of
peers:
professional
associations,
journals,
conferences
Quality
control
Locus
of
power
But
must
avoid
becoming
self-referential
Statistics
as
a
model
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Overview
Challenges
and
consequences
Discipline
and
Big
Science
project
Integration
and
Implementation
Sciences
(I2S)
A
Plavour
of
the
I2S
Development
Drive
Next
steps
11
Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: Integration and Implementation Sciences for Researching Complex Real-World Problems
12
My
focus
1. Complex
real-world
problems
eg
inequality,
organised
crime,
global
climate
change,
rising
health
care
costs
2.
Underpinned
by
a
systems
approach
3.
Multiple
methodological
options
- no
one
right
way
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Core
ingredients
1
Bring
together
expertise
from
different
disciplines
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Core
ingredients
2
Bring
together
expertise
from
different
disciplines
-
and
stakeholders
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Core
ingredients
3
Bring
together
expertise
from
different
disciplines
-
and
stakeholders
Take
action
(policy
and
practice
change)
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Core
ingredients
4
Bring
together
expertise
from
different
disciplines
-
and
stakeholders
Take
action
(policy
and
practice
change)
BUT
also
consider
unknowns
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Five
questions
Q1
1. For
what
and
for
whom?
What
is
the
research
aiming
to
achieve
and
who
is
intended
to
benePit?
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Five
questions
Q2
2.
Of
what?
What
is
being
dealt
with:
- knowledge
synthesis
- diverse
unknowns
- provision
of
integrated
research
support
for
policy
and
practice
change?
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Five
questions
Q3
3.
How?
Methods
for
- knowledge
synthesis
- consideration
of
diverse
unknowns
- provision
of
integrated
research
support
- by
whom
and
when?
23
Five
questions
Q4
4.
Context?
What
circumstances
affect
the
research
and
the
ability
to
implement
the
results
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Five
questions
Q5
5.
Success?
What
is
the
outcome:
-
knowledge
synthesis
-
consideration
of
diverse
unknowns
and
-
provision
of
integrated
research
support
for
policy
and
practice
change?
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Whats
next?
Finding,
compiling
and
classifying
the
options
=
I2S
Development
Drive
Let
me
give
you
a
Plavour
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30
Models 2
32
Uses
of
models
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Organise
information
Synthesise
understandings
Guide
research
or
data
collection
Communicate
Forecast
Compare
options
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Target system
Static
diagrams
1
Picture
of
the
system
(model
does
more)
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Main
Points
No
way
to
get
complete
view
of
problem
Different
systems
view
highlight
different
elements
and
relationships
Models
help
get
handles
on
systems
views
Few
compilations
No
agreed
classiPication
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Unknowns
Less
well
developed
(more
than
risk)
Blind
spot
in
western
thought
Mike Smithson General
orientation:
Unlimited
unknowns
and
limited
research
capacity
Different
ways
of
understanding
unknowns
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Unlimited
unknowns
Constant
innovation
and
change
On-going
research
Irreducible
unknowns
Limited
methods
BenePits
of
unknowns
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54
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Imperfection
is
inevitable
Consequence
of:
Unknowns
But
also
Boundary
setting
Systems
Values
Big
picture
context
57
Overview
Challenges
and
consequences
Discipline
and
Big
Science
project
Integration
and
Implementation
Sciences
(I2S)
A
Plavour
of
the
I2S
Development
Drive
Next
steps
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Next
steps...
1
Disciplining
Interdisciplinarity
Testing
the
ideas:
a)
commentaries
59
Next
steps
2
Disciplining
Interdisciplinarity
Testing
the
ideas:
b)
courses
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Next
steps
3
A
general
resources
compilation
website
and
newsletter
61
New
resource
Concepts
for
co-production
of
knowledge
Enengel, Barbara; Muhar, Andreas; Penker, Marianne; Freyer, Bernhard; Drlik, Stephanie; and, Ritter, Florian. (2012). Co-production of Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Doctoral Theses on Landscape Development An Analysis of Actor Roles and Knowledge Types in Different Research Phases. Landscape and Urban Planning, 105, 1-2: 106-117.
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Next
steps
4
New
projects:
Eg
Making
decisions
when
experts
disagree
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