TRED Community day June 12th, 2025

Living labs are currently seen as an important mechanism to contribute to sustainability transitions. Based on a multilevel perspective we will review the roles Living Labs might play in transitions. Using a quick scan approach we will explore how the Living labs in which participants are involved are currently positioned and how they might enhance their contribution.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Irene Bouwma

How could Citizen Science contribute to sustainability transitions? Join us to further explore how to (co)design Citizen Science for transformative change.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Alanya den Boer and Annemarie van Paassen

Visions of the future circulating in transdisciplinary innovation research tend to echo dominant hype-fear imaginaries. In this interactive session, we will explore future literacy: the capacity to recognize, reflect on, and potentially alter anticipatory assumptions for imagining plural, alternative, and rich futures.

What you need to bring: a pen.

Led by: Mareike Smolka

We need transdisciplinary professionals who are able to tackle or deal with wicked problems. Transdisciplinary Mixed Classrooms, an innovative learning concept, are where students and professionals act together as co-learners in education. These classrooms can support boundary crossing skills, which are needed to become a transdisciplinary professional. During this session participants will learn about transdisciplinary mixed classrooms. Next, they will experience how boundary crossing can enable collaborating in diverse inter- and transdisciplinary settings.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Sarah de Vries and Carla Oonk

In this interactive session, we explore the power of reflection together. Through storytelling, dialogue, and visual prompts, participants will engage in different modes of reflection that support learning, connection, and transformation across disciplines and roles. No prior experience is needed—just a willingness to share, listen, and explore.

What you need to bring: a phone and a pen

Led by: Anke Swanenberg

Complex problems addressed in inter- and transdisciplinary programmes need some problem structuring in order to develop and explore specific, time and-space bound opportunities for improvement. We will identify the degree and types of problem structuring by management of inter- and transdisciplinary programmes and discuss how these influence the action perspective of the researchers involved. With the (finished) WUR investment programme Transformative Bioeconomies as an example, participants will reflect on their experiences in a programme they were involved in.

For researchers with experience (leading, managing, participating in) in an inter- and transdisciplinary research.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Barbara van Mierlo and Harriette Bos

SciArt collaborations are a powerful means for leveraging societal impact and for seeing the work differently. Yet many kinds of institutional barriers exist for these types of collaborations. We want to develop a guiding document to support anyone who wants to initiate or engage in a SciArt project. During this workshop we would like you to co-create this document with us.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Meghann Ormond and Tossa Harding

In this visioning session, we will be exploring future (positive) human-nature relations. We will be experimenting with creative techniques that draw on empathetic imagining and multispecies justice, seeking to engage with perspectives of (nonhuman) nature in the visioning process.

What you need to bring: Willingness to try out some creative methods 😊

Led by: Kasper Kok and Jay Gietzelt

This Approach-based session shares lessons learned from designing and playing serious games in transdisciplinary research and education. Two games from the WUR Games Hub community will be played/tested: the Carbon Farming Game (Ina Möller & Gabriel Moinet, PhD course "Grounding Carbon Farming") and the QUEEN Game on crop-livestock integration (Gildas Assogba, SESAM project). In a shared space, participants will rotate between both games in a mini-carousel format, exploring how serious games foster dialogue and bring together diverse perspectives and disciplines on complex challenges.

Led by: Gabriel Moinet, Ina Möller, Gildas Asogba

What you need to bring: playfulness!

We are looking for ways that people can engage with changes to landscapes and their consequences. During this session, you will be introduced to Tangible Landscape, a 3D approach that allows you to explore the outcomes of various landscape choices. This will give you a tangible sense of what it entails. After a brief introduction, you will have the opportunity to try out a demonstration using a small test model. This hands-on experience will be followed by a dialogue on how this approach, along with similar methods, can be beneficial for research and decision-making processes.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Xiaolu Hu and Marlies van Ree

Freedom tours Wageningen offers interactive walking tours that explore the complexities of freedom through the diverse experiences of Wageningen residents. Connecting local history with global struggles, these tours inspire reflection, dialogue, and action to protect and expand freedom in inclusive ways. The tours are designed by a co-creative process including storytelling and place based learning. In this approach session you will experience, and we will ask your input on, a prototype of a tour co-created by Freedom Tours Wageningen.

What you need to bring: a bicycle

Led by: Meghann Ormond

Led by: Niki Puskás

Metaphors can help make complex concepts more tangible and help people find common ground. UnBox is a game-like process that facilitates collaborative exploration via physicalised metaphors (e.g. boat, lighthouse, see UnBox). In this session, we invite you to discover UnBox, where you will engage with the metaphors in different spaces. This will encourage and help you to learn how to use metaphors in your collaborations and the multiple ways they can be physically represented. 

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

The practice of inter- and transdisciplinary research (ITD) research within the current research system is like navigating a maze with many possible opportunities for shaping collaborations between disciplines and with diverse societal actors, but with high uncertainty on the potential success of the chosen path and the presence of hurdles along the way. We propose ways to overcome these hurdles. In this session we want to get your input to further refine our ideas how to reshape the maze of the current research system to strengthen its contribution to locally relevant and inclusive socio-technical and nature inclusive solutions.

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity

Led by: Nina de Roo

Led by: Marlies van Ree

There is a growing belief that developing and spreading knowledge alone isn't enough to drive societal transformations; people need to be inspired and engaged. Creative practices, where artists and designers collaborate with researchers and societal actors, can bridge this gap through various forms like role plays, community development, storytelling, and VR experiences by touching upon emotions and values. In this session, we share insights and explore together how creative practices can contribute to societal transformations and other related research topics. 

What you need to bring: an open mind and curiosity