Episode Details

Many researchers struggle with the gap between deeply understanding a problem and successfully implementing a solution. This episode explores why we must move past subject-matter silos and adopt a unified meta-discipline to address interconnected global challenges.

We examine the I2S framework, which serves as a central hub for tools from various traditions like systems thinking and transdisciplinarity. It provides a structured way to integrate disciplinary expertise with the lived experiences of stakeholders, ensuring that research leads to tangible improvements in policy and practice.

• Adopt a methodological skill set that works across different societal and environmental domains.
• Apply the three functional domains of research: understanding, improving, and interacting.
• Recognize that systems have no natural boundaries and context is always shifting.
• Shift the analytical lens to focus on the interdependencies within dynamic webs.
• Acknowledge that unknown unknowns are a permanent reality in complex systems.

The I2S framework specifically links disparate traditions—such as action research and systems thinking—into a single, applied discipline to manage these complexities.

Are the boundaries we place on our problems preventing us from seeing the unknown unknowns that drive systemic failure?

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