Transdisciplinary Innovation
SUSTAINABILITY IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION
PROFESSOR LOUISE McWHINNIE. DEAN. FACULTY OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION.
In many ways sustainability is one of the key wicked problems, and that’s very much what a faculty of transdisciplinary innovation actually addresses. Rather than teaching sustainability as a standalone subject, it’s actually integrated in everything that we do. So we’ve been working with the City of Sydney on sustainability in urban cities, we’ve been working with Honda, for example, on the future of sustainability in terms of personal transportation.
What’s really interesting is, I’ve just run in the last couple of months, a survey with the final year BCII students to gauge what really drives them, and the one issue that clearly, clearly drives them, number one, is sustainability.
MARIELA POWELL-THOMAS. STUDENT. BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE AND INNOVATION
Using a transdisciplinary approach to that is key to creating a really holistic and powerful sustainable future, I guess. So, having industries like fashion and textiles working on sustainability that might borrow practices from ethical investment, or that kind of thing. I think that’s the way to, yeah I think that’s where our future is heading, and I’m really interested and excited to sort of step into that area.
PROFESSOR LOUISE McWHINNIE. DEAN. FACULTY OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION.
As the world is changing at immense speeds, so are the professions and we are finding with the big complex and connected wicked problems there are, that have to be tackled in the world, that one discipline is not enough to tackle those. It requires multiple disciplines. So, the faculty of transdisciplinary innovation actually sits at the centre of the faculties and acts as a facilitator and as a nexus for the sort of work that’s going forward.
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY.
Sustainability is by definition multi-disciplinary. Solutions to many complex problems today, from climate change to resource consumption, food security to global inequality will only be achieved by working creatively together in new ways. The Transdisciplinary Innovation School is all about facilitating this process of collaboration.
Students work on real life projects, with industry partners and academic staff from faculties and disciplines across the university.
Key sustainability staff include;
Dr Paul Brown who has a background in accounting and a strong track recored in sustainability cross disciplinary collaboration.
For more information contact the faculty or phone general enquiries on 1300 275 887.