§16§§This exciting new state-of-the art book reviews, explores and advocates ways in which collaborative research endeavours can, through a transdisciplinary lens, enhance student, academic and social experiences. Drawing from a wide range of knowledges, contexts, geographical locations and internationally renowned expertise, the book provides a unique look into the world of transdisciplinary thinking, collaborative learning and action. In doing so, the book is action orientated, reflective, theoretical and intriguing and provides a place for all of these to meet and mingle in the spirit of curiosity and imagination.§§§ §04§§PART I THEORISING TRANSDISCIPLINARITY AS A COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE.- Introduction, Paul Gibbs, Linda Neuhauser and Dena Fam.- Learning and transdisciplinary collaboration: A conceptual vocabulary, Julie Thompson Klein.- Practical and scientific foundations of transdisciplinary research and action, Linda Neuhauser.- Transforming Transdisciplinarity: An expansion of strong transdisciplinarity and its centrality in enabling effective collaboration, Katie Ross and Cynthia Mitchell.- The role of pliability and transversality within trans/disciplinarity: Opening university research and learning to planetary health, Jason Prior, Carole Cusack and Anthony Capon.- The transdisciplinary evolution of the university condition for sustainable development, Basarab Nicolescu.- PART II TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (EDUCATION).- Meta-considerations for planning, introducing and standardising collective learning in higher degree institutions, Dena Fam, Scott Kelly, Tania Leimbach, Lesley Hitchens §04§and Michelle Callen.- Transdisciplinarity: towards an epistemology of what matters, Kate Maguire.- Trandisciplinarity and the 'Living Lab Model': Food waste management as a site for collaborative learning, Alexandra Crosby, Dena Fam and Abby Lopes.- Nurturing transdisciplinary graduate learning and skills through a community of practice approach, Chris Riedy, Cynthia Mitchell, Juliet Willetts and Ian Cunningham.- Making collective learning coherent: An adaptive approach to the practice of transdisciplinary pedagogy, Elizabeth Clarke and Craig Ashhurst.- Making the link between transdisciplinary learning and transdisciplinary design principles, BinBin Pearce, Carolina Adler, Lisette Senn, Pius Krütli, Michael Stauffacher and Christian Pohl.- The Connected Studio: Collective learning in an industry-education research test bed, Tanja Golja, Krista Jordan and Shilo McClean.-PART III TRANSDISCIPLINARY CASE STUDIES.- Shielding Indigenous worlds from extraction and the transformative pot §04§ential of collaborative research, Jason De Santolo (Tribal affiliations: Garrwa and Barunggam).- Collaborative research and action: The Changzhou Worker Wellness Project, Linda Neuhauser, Xiaodong Wang, Hong Yun, Xiaoming Sun, Zhanhong Zong, Xingyu Shu, Jingshu Mao, Eve Wen-Jing Lee, and Sono Aibe.- Creative partnerships and cultural organizations: "Enabling" and "situating" arts-science collaboration and collective learning, Tania Leimbach and Keith Armstrong.- Climate adapted people shelters: A transdisciplinary reimagining of public infrastructure through open, design-led innovation, Brent Jacobs, Jochen Schweitzer, Lee Wallace, Suzanne Dunford and Sarah Barns.- Reflections on collective learning: open and closed, Valerie Brown.- Philosophical reflections: Coda, Paul Gibbs.§§§
