Networking and Outreach

The TD-Lab organizes the permanent networking of participatory and transdisciplinary researchers and practitioners within and outside the Berlin University Alliance. The aim is to enable innovations and robust solutions for societal challenges through integrative collaboration.

ON WATER

The TD-Lab is committed to advancing Berlin’s water research in exchange with society: With the On Water DIALOGUES, the TD-Lab has developed a series of events for water experts from science and practice. They are invited to share their specific expertise in focused workshops and to jointly reflect on solutions for concrete case studies. In this way, the dialogues create a network between research, business, politics, administration, and organized civil society around the future issue of water.

The ON WATER Briefing provides monthly updates on discourses, events, and key developments in the field of water in Berlin and beyond, and introduces inspiring research personalities. You can sign up here.

Events

• Let's Talk About It: Transdisciplinarity and Co-Production – digital networking event in collaboration with the Center for Technology and Society (TU Berlin) and the tdAcademy | Link (irregular event series)
  
  

• Panel Discussions on Excellence in Participatory Research:

  • Opening Discussion: “Excellent Research in Excellent Company – Addressing Societal Challenges Together” (video recording) on 14 February 2024
    with Nicole Burkhardt (Head of Division for Strategic Foresight, Participation, Social Innovation at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Dr. Ina Czyborra (Senator for Science and Health, Berlin), Dr. Volker Meyer-Guckel (Secretary General of the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany), Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind (Mayor of the City of Wuppertal), Prof. Dr. Thomas S. Spengler (Technische Universität Braunschweig and member of the Excellence Strategy Committee of the German Council of Science and Humanities), moderated by Dr. Jan-Martin Wiarda (science journalist)
    – a joint event by the TD-Lab/Berlin University Alliance and the Excellence Universities RWTH Aachen University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

  • "Where Is the Longing for Transformation? A Future Conversation About Science" (report) on 14 May 2025
    with Dr. Karena Kalmbach (Head of Strategy and Content, Futurium), Dr. Nora Kottmann (Deputy Head of Societal Transformations, Volkswagen Foundation), Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen (Professor of Science and Innovation Studies and Director of the TransferAgency at Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Julia Wittmayer (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam), moderated by Dr. Jan-Martin Wiarda (science journalist)
    – a joint event of the TD-Lab – Laboratory for Transdisciplinary Research of the Berlin University Alliance, the Stifterverband (Donors’ Association Germany), the Science and Society Unit at Technische Universität Berlin, and the Society for Transdisciplinary and Participatory Research (GTPF) e.V.

• Kick-Off event "Gemeinsam im Fluss: Kooperationen, Wissen und Forschungsagenden zu Wasser" of the WasserWissen Dialogue-Series at Floating University on 23.10.2024 | Link
• Film Screening and Discussion "Goddess Durga Unveiled: The Timeless Power of Emotion" - Documentary by Dr. Ranjamrittika Bhowmik about museums as Affective Spaces and emotions in cooperation with the TD-Lab on 26.10.2024 at cinema Babylon | Registration | Link

Participatory Research Map 

The Participatory Research Map (PRM) is a mapping of participatory and transdisciplinary research projects of the BUA. This is done in collaboration with the BUA-funded project BUA Open Science Magnifiers. Join us for the online L(a)unch of the PRM on 2nd December and register here.

Workshop Festival "Floating together"

Collaboration with the BUA-Exploration Project “Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet” at Floating University, Festival from June 12-13 2024, Info here.

Previous event:

Lectures: LOOPS – Lecture Series in cooperation with the Master Program Design and Computing of UDK and TU Berlin (in Summer Semester 23 & Winter Semester 23/24) | Link