Place and Transdisciplinarity

Abstract

This paper tendered a brief exploration of the synergy between place studies and transdisciplinarity.  After describing the main tenets of transdisciplinarity and of place studies, a discussion teased out eight lines of synergy between the two approaches, each striving to ensure voices and perspectives are heard from different places during the solving of complex human problems. Both approaches strive to integrate many levels of truth while generating new knowledge or engaging in place- learning, place-making, even world-making. Place- conscious transdisciplinarians can be sensitive to insights gained from respecting the role of place in solving the problems of the world. They can scaffold TD ontology, logic, epistemology, and axiology with dimensions and dynamics of place.