A tese aqui proposta resgata a ecogênese a partir da obra paisagística de Fernando Chacel, que desenvolveu a regeneração de paisagens pela recuperação de qualidades ecossistêmicas originais. Sinaliza para a pertinência de aliá-la aos conceitos de lugar, resiliência e transdisciplinaridade. A trandisciplinaridade é tratada, com base na concepção de Basarab Nicolescu, como uma abordagem científica que articula os saberes que estão entre, através e além das disciplinas. A pesquisa utiliza como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica qualitativa e na análise de dados, emprega a hermenêutica dialética. Conforme Maria Cecília Minayo, a hermenêutica envolve: compreensão como categoria metodológica; liberdade, necessidade, força, consciência histórica, todo e partes, como categorias filosóficas fundantes; e, significado, símbolo, intencionalidade e empatia como balizas do pensamento. A dialética é desenvolvida por meio da articulação das ideias de crítica, de negação, de oposição, de mudança, de processo, de contradição, de movimento e de transformação da natureza e da realidade social. Nessa dimensão reflexiva, esta investigação busca a ressignificação da ecogênese inicialmente apresentada e a sua complementação na forma de uma ecogênese transdisciplinar. Sugere-se com esse percurso a positividade e a concretude de um redesenho do conceito de ecogênese como possível referência para as concepções paisagísticas nas cidades e como forma de criar lugares capazes de qualificar a vida urbana, com diferentes repercussões na relação entre seres e ambiente. / This dissertation rescues the concept of Ecogenesis from Fernando Chacel’s work, who developed landscape architecture regeneration method through original ecosystem qualities recovery, comprising the concepts of place, resilience and transdisciplinarity. According to Basarab Nicolescu, trandisciplinarity is dealt as a scientific approach that links types of knowledge that are between, through and beyond disciplines. The investigation work uses as methodology qualitative bibliographic research, and in the data analysis, dialectic hermeneutics. According to Minayo, hermeneutics involve: understanding as methodologic category; liberty, necessity, strength, historical awareness, parts and whole, as ultimate philosophical categories; and meaning, symbol, intentionality and empathy as landmarks of thought. Dialectics is developed through linking the ideas of critics, denial, opposition, changing, process, contradiction, movement and transformation of nature and social reality. In this reflexive dimension, this work pursues the resignification of ecogenesis as initially presented and its complementation as Transdisciplinary Ecogenesis. This way, it is suggested that positivity and concreteness of a redesigning in ecogenesis concept can be a possible reference for urban landscape design and a way to create places capable of qualifying urban life, with different repercussions in the relationship among beings and environment.

Genealogical Family Historians conduct research in order to reconstruct genealogical families, through the application of a rigorous methodology: weighing the evidence for placing each individual in a family group, linking family groups of the past and making contact with kin of the present. Genealogical Family Historians trace the movements and migrations of identified individuals and family groups; and study the local, national and international social settings of lives lived in families and households in different times and places, over many generations. A large worldwide Community of Practice with many constituent groups, including the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Incorporated, has formed itself around this research activity. In this transdisciplinary study focused on social learning, I have explored and analysed the domain, the practice and the community of Genealogical Family Historians researching in and from Aotearoa-New Zealand during the past 50 years. Genealogical Family Historians meet formally and informally, in small groups or at large conferences to pursue their self-directed learning. The collaborative practice includes publishing and teaching; and the locating, preserving and indexing of records. Many conduct research and communicate with others in the new world of cyberspace. My overarching research question has been: where is the future place for this scholarly discourse? My approach to this study is transdisciplinary: my point-of-view is above and across departments and disciplines. The ethos and vision of transdisciplinarity is attained only through existing disciplines, and transdisciplinary research has the potential to contribute to those disciplines, as I demonstrate in this thesis. The transdisciplinary scholarly discourse of Genealogical Family History owes much to the disciplines of history, geography and sociology; and draws on biology, law, religious studies, linguistics, demography, computer science and information technology. I have also drawn on understandings from my own prior and concurrent disciplinary knowledge and experience for this study. Other Genealogical Family Historians bring different disciplinary understandings to the discourse that is Genealogical Family History. My positionality is that of an insider, an involved member of the Community of Practice for many years. In this study, I have allowed my key informants to speak with their own voices; and I have sought illustration and evidence from documentation and observation in the wider Genealogical Family History Community, past and present. I have used enhanced reflection on my own practice in my analysis and in case studies. This study demonstrates how the Community of Practice has played an important role in developing a transdisciplinary mode of inquiry and suggests that there are some generic features of the field and practice of Genealogical Family History that form the substance of a transdisciplinary discourse ready to take its place in academia.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of death in the United States and has the highest death rate among Blacks. Whereas studies have targeted patients to increase CRC adherence in the general population few studies have focused on improving providers’ adherence to screening guidelines. Also, CRC screening studies among HIV-positive patients consistently show lower screening rates compared to screening rates among HIV negative persons. Results of screening colonoscopy studies among HIV positive patients show higher prevalence of neoplastic lesions and colon cancer is diagnosed at advanced cancer stages; these patients have shorter disease-free survival compared to HIV-negative patients. The aim of this transdisciplinary retrospective–prospective and randomized control study is to examine providers’ adherence to screening colonoscopy guidelines before and after screening reminders, evaluate the impact of an educational screening video and review of colonoscopy decisions tree plus usual care on patient adherence compared to usual care only. Results showed that providers’ adherence to screening colonoscopy guidelines significantly increased after reminders to refer patients were placed in medical records. The randomized trial showed that patients in the intervention group were more adherent to screening colonoscopy appointments compared to patients in the usual care arm. Also, patients with little or no social support in the intervention arm were more likely to keep appointments. This is the first reported study of a Transdisciplinary prevention model integrating evidence-based medicine, behavioral medicine and human factors decision support through a multi-faceted intervention to increase screening colonoscopy adherence in the HIV population. We integrated a provider reminder system, patient informed decision support of colonoscopy educational video and decision tree review in addition to patient provider communication to promote increased provider and patient screening behavior. Further studies are needed to elucidate the impact of patient centered intervention strategies and social support on screening colonoscopy behavior.

The thesis research is situated within the field of Architecture. Its principle objective is the articulation of arguments for a new theory of architecture as an architectural poetics, and related to this, a new form of discourse as poetry of an architectonic order. The research was initiated through a series of questions that architects confront when asked to create and to speak about what can be understood to be(come) frameworks for (unknown) life. It thus deals with the question of the unknown and, related to this, the question of open form. It develops on the idea that a concept of inhabitation may be feasible exclusively on the basis of a theory that extends the well known two-valued logic that has been dominant in the Western world since the times of classical metaphysics. Rooted in philosophy, the research extends contemporary architectural and critical theory, notions from poets such as Paul Celan, Marguérite Duras and Samuel Beckett, and research in second order cybernetics – the latter with an emphasis on Gotthard Günther’s writings on Non-Aristotelean logic. The text’s focus is on the notion of Architecture as a transcendental concept. It advances the understanding of Architectural Design as a performative process that creates borders rather than borderlines, limits rather than limitations and, is therefore, a discipline of radical communication that always seeks to extend itself towards an Other – the unknown – addressing it without previously quantifying it to render it provable. The research furthers the field of Architecture by contributing to it a new theory in the form of an architectural poetics. It addresses questions of design with a procedural framework in which critical engagement is an intrinsic principle, and offers an alternative to existing discourses through a poetry of architectonic order that is open to the future.

A tese aqui proposta resgata a ecogênese a partir da obra paisagística de Fernando Chacel, que desenvolveu a regeneração de paisagens pela recuperação de qualidades ecossistêmicas originais. Sinaliza para a pertinência de aliá-la aos conceitos de lugar, resiliência e transdisciplinaridade. A trandisciplinaridade é tratada, com base na concepção de Basarab Nicolescu, como uma abordagem científica que articula os saberes que estão entre, através e além das disciplinas. A pesquisa utiliza como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica qualitativa e na análise de dados, emprega a hermenêutica dialética. Conforme Maria Cecília Minayo, a hermenêutica envolve: compreensão como categoria metodológica; liberdade, necessidade, força, consciência histórica, todo e partes, como categorias filosóficas fundantes; e, significado, símbolo, intencionalidade e empatia como balizas do pensamento. A dialética é desenvolvida por meio da articulação das ideias de crítica, de negação, de oposição, de mudança, de processo, de contradição, de movimento e de transformação da natureza e da realidade social. Nessa dimensão reflexiva, esta investigação busca a ressignificação da ecogênese inicialmente apresentada e a sua complementação na forma de uma ecogênese transdisciplinar. Sugere-se com esse percurso a positividade e a concretude de um redesenho do conceito de ecogênese como possível referência para as concepções paisagísticas nas cidades e como forma de criar lugares capazes de qualificar a vida urbana, com diferentes repercussões na relação entre seres e ambiente. / This dissertation rescues the concept of Ecogenesis from Fernando Chacel’s work, who developed landscape architecture regeneration method through original ecosystem qualities recovery, comprising the concepts of place, resilience and transdisciplinarity. According to Basarab Nicolescu, trandisciplinarity is dealt as a scientific approach that links types of knowledge that are between, through and beyond disciplines. The investigation work uses as methodology qualitative bibliographic research, and in the data analysis, dialectic hermeneutics. According to Minayo, hermeneutics involve: understanding as methodologic category; liberty, necessity, strength, historical awareness, parts and whole, as ultimate philosophical categories; and meaning, symbol, intentionality and empathy as landmarks of thought. Dialectics is developed through linking the ideas of critics, denial, opposition, changing, process, contradiction, movement and transformation of nature and social reality. In this reflexive dimension, this work pursues the resignification of ecogenesis as initially presented and its complementation as Transdisciplinary Ecogenesis. This way, it is suggested that positivity and concreteness of a redesigning in ecogenesis concept can be a possible reference for urban landscape design and a way to create places capable of qualifying urban life, with different repercussions in the relationship among beings and environment.

A tese aqui proposta resgata a ecogênese a partir da obra paisagística de Fernando Chacel, que desenvolveu a regeneração de paisagens pela recuperação de qualidades ecossistêmicas originais. Sinaliza para a pertinência de aliá-la aos conceitos de lugar, resiliência e transdisciplinaridade. A trandisciplinaridade é tratada, com base na concepção de Basarab Nicolescu, como uma abordagem científica que articula os saberes que estão entre, através e além das disciplinas. A pesquisa utiliza como metodologia a pesquisa bibliográfica qualitativa e na análise de dados, emprega a hermenêutica dialética. Conforme Maria Cecília Minayo, a hermenêutica envolve: compreensão como categoria metodológica; liberdade, necessidade, força, consciência histórica, todo e partes, como categorias filosóficas fundantes; e, significado, símbolo, intencionalidade e empatia como balizas do pensamento. A dialética é desenvolvida por meio da articulação das ideias de crítica, de negação, de oposição, de mudança, de processo, de contradição, de movimento e de transformação da natureza e da realidade social. Nessa dimensão reflexiva, esta investigação busca a ressignificação da ecogênese inicialmente apresentada e a sua complementação na forma de uma ecogênese transdisciplinar. Sugere-se com esse percurso a positividade e a concretude de um redesenho do conceito de ecogênese como possível referência para as concepções paisagísticas nas cidades e como forma de criar lugares capazes de qualificar a vida urbana, com diferentes repercussões na relação entre seres e ambiente. / This dissertation rescues the concept of Ecogenesis from Fernando Chacel’s work, who developed landscape architecture regeneration method through original ecosystem qualities recovery, comprising the concepts of place, resilience and transdisciplinarity. According to Basarab Nicolescu, trandisciplinarity is dealt as a scientific approach that links types of knowledge that are between, through and beyond disciplines. The investigation work uses as methodology qualitative bibliographic research, and in the data analysis, dialectic hermeneutics. According to Minayo, hermeneutics involve: understanding as methodologic category; liberty, necessity, strength, historical awareness, parts and whole, as ultimate philosophical categories; and meaning, symbol, intentionality and empathy as landmarks of thought. Dialectics is developed through linking the ideas of critics, denial, opposition, changing, process, contradiction, movement and transformation of nature and social reality. In this reflexive dimension, this work pursues the resignification of ecogenesis as initially presented and its complementation as Transdisciplinary Ecogenesis. This way, it is suggested that positivity and concreteness of a redesigning in ecogenesis concept can be a possible reference for urban landscape design and a way to create places capable of qualifying urban life, with different repercussions in the relationship among beings and environment.

This thesis takes a theoretical framework constructed for transdisciplinary research within different natural science disciplines and investigates what kind of new knowledge is produced when this framework is applied to projects at the interface of art and natural science. The main case study is “Sauti ya Wakulima – The Voice of the Farmers”, which involves collaboration with another intervention artist, and with natural scientists and farmers. This is a collaborative knowledge project with small-scale urban as well as rural farmers in Tanzania who have created an online community archive of their farming practices by using mobile phones to upload images and sounds onto a website. The research uses an open-ended participatory methodology that gives the participants as much creative agency as possible within the given power structures and practical and technical parameters. A second work examined is the Climate Hope Garden, an installation by the author in collaboration with ecologists and climate scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ). The installation consisted of a garden grown in climate-controlled chambers based on the climatic conditions proposed by IPCC climate scenarios. The project aimed to enact these scenarios on a spatial and temporal scale to which visitors could relate. Transdisciplinary research has become a key reference point in funding proposals. Despite many references in the literature, and calls for research involving both the natural sciences and humanities to solve complex world problems such as adaptation to climate change, there seems to be little consensus about exactly what kind of knowledge might be produced from such projects, and how transdisciplinary research proposals might be evaluated, especially those at the interface of art and the natural sciences. Several theoretical frameworks have been suggested for designing transdisciplinary research between and within scientific disciplines, or between the natural and social sciences and humanities. The present study applies the framework proposed by Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn (2007) to a real-world transdisciplinary art-science project in a development context in order to examine the balance between the collective, locally embodied experience and the nomothetic knowledge that arises from it. This thesis found that transdisciplinarity is a different question from that of types of knowledge on the nomothetic-idiographic scale. Transdisciplinarity is a pragmatic question of definitions and inherited boundaries of disciplines. The framework categories do not differentiate between nomothetic and idiographic, just to which part of the problem-solving puzzle they fit. This is perfectly valid for goal-oriented, problem-solving research and can be applied to art-science research, but there are other ways of describing this work, such as using a philosophical description of the knowing process which comes closer to encompassing the richness of the knowledge produced. It is in this sense that the new type of knowledge generated by the transdisciplinary projects required an expansion of the given theoretical framework.

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The numerous transdisciplinary research initiatives currently addressing a variety of complex social issues could benefit from a deeper understanding of the ways in which intellectually diverse groups work together to address problems. This research focused on a small group of investigators in a transdisciplinary institute as they sought to work collaboratively in the domain of infectious disease research. The unit's members described many challenges and successes that provided insights into the character and dynamics of transdisciplinary research, including how members developed a shared conceptual framework. The process proved enormously complex and was the product of long-term interactions among group members. Because participants were rooted in different disciplines and did not share professional trajectories, communication and understanding took extra effort, patience, and the development of a counterintuitive set of cognitive skills. Over time an integrated work process evolved within the group through a combination of strong interpersonal relationships, the mediating role of interactional expertise, and the development of shared boundary objects. Group members began working more closely with other team participants throughout the lifespan of projects. That experience over time allowed individuals to connect the details of their work together with the overarching goals and strategies of the group. This study employed the theory of trading zones to illustrate the ways researchers worked across boundaries to establish shared ideas, values, and goals. It developed and applied the concept of a transdisciplinary trading zone to describe the group's ability to coordinate its action despite both epistemic and communication barriers. Ultimately, the researchers studied sought a balance between being "productive," understood as providing practical tools to industry and government, and generating novel scientific solutions to complex research problems. The group's success in securing a shared research aspiration despite its member's disciplinary and professional differences resulted from an iterative process of interaction that included learning from failed attempts and a constant and persistent negotiation of goals and values among those involved. / Ph. D.

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