Abstract
Design and analyze a transdisciplinary training and organization experience on cancer, where experts from multiple disciplines and actors with different horizons converge on a diagnosis and intervention horizon on multiple scales. A 140-hour diploma course with more than 60 speakers and 50 relevant actors around cancer was designed and implemented. A 20-hour transversal workshop was developed, using the Design for Transition methods as mediation of collaborative strategies for the construction of diagnoses and interventions in complex and conflict situations. It was possible to build a series of maps with a common view of stakeholders, concerns, conflicts, root causes, ideal scenarios and potential models of intervention, based on diverse participant's input. The visual resources generated were able to function as guides and structures that made possible the identification of biocultural factors that facilitate or impede implementation of strategies and interventions. Infographic material functioned as transdisciplinary mediations that enabled a diverse political (multiple-actors) and pedagogical (multiple-epistemologies) space to act upon an economic and ecological context (material interdependence of actors and environments). The Design for Transition methodology catalized transdisciplinary work by enabling cancer experts and social actors interactions. Through visual mediations such as maps, infographics and tables, it was possible to synthesize and use a shared diagnosis and thus advance towards more inclusive interventions that recognize the biocultural complexity of this pandemic.
Highlights
Infographic material functioned as transdisciplinary mediations that enabled a diverse political and pedagogical space to act upon an economic and ecological context
The Design for Transition methodology catalized transdisciplinary work by enabling cancer experts and social actors interactions. Through visual mediations such as maps, infographics and tables, it was possible to synthesize and use a shared diagnosis and advance towards more inclusive interventions that recognize the biocultural complexity of this pandemic
Por ejemplo: el escenario de “Interacción Cuidador-Paciente”, que hace énfasis en una relación más humana e inclusiva, fue la base para que un grupo de enfermeras de una clínica de primer nivel en Oaxaca acotara el problema a la dificultad de acceso a expedientes e historias clínicas, tanto para el paciente que no tiene una credencial actualizada de su identidad, como para el proveedor de salud para recuperar la información necesaria del paciente, lo que causa un atraso en la etapa de prevención y tratamiento del cáncer
Summary
It was possible to build a series of maps with a common view of stakeholders, concerns, conflicts, root causes, ideal scenarios and potential models of intervention, based on diverse participant’s input. El resultado fue el Diplomado “Cáncer: complejidad biocultural y estrategias transdisciplinarias” [9], el cual se pensó como un espacio donde se pudieran ejercitar diferentes metodologías para el diagnóstico y evaluación de intervenciones en contextos conflictivos o adversos, como a los que se enfrentan las personas afectadas por el cáncer en América Latina. El Diseño para la Transición (DT) convirtió al espacio pedagógico del diplomado en un espacio de investigación-acción participativa, gracias al cual se logró avanzar en los siguientes objetivos: a) Construir, entre expertos y afectados, una visión compartida de la complejidad biocultural del cáncer en México a partir de un análisis multiactor y multiescalar. Panorama general del enfoque del diseño para la transición (DT) en el que se distinguen 3 fases
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