Abstract
Both citizen science and transdisciplinary sustainability research involve nonacademic actors in the production of knowledge while seeking to contribute to sustainability transitions, albeit in different ways. From citizen science, transdisciplinary researchers can learn about the multiple ways of engaging knowledge holders, and producing and sharing knowledge.
Highlights
Both citizen science and transdisciplinary sustainability research involve non-academic actors in the production of knowledge while seeking to contribute to sustainability transitions, albeit in different ways
Implementing transdisciplinarity as a model of sustainability research poses a variety of challenges: inclusion of non-academic actors throughout the research process, integration of different types of knowledge and worldviews, development of appropriate quality criteria and sensitivity to normativity
We have identified areas of mutual learning to address these challenges
Summary
These three approaches to quality criteria for TDR (and there transdisciplinary projects usually integrate non-scientific knowl- are many others) follow different objectives and aim at different edge in reaching out to societal actors to develop interventions, contexts of usage. They provide assistance to those designing, but not to involve them in reflecting the final results CS can learn from transdisciplinarity’s deliberative approach, which allows it to understand issues of normativity and epistemic quality as integral to open research, as well as its contested problem-framing and the implications of participation as a value in and of itself. CS can share its experiences of doing science, which is a diverse practice when preformed in a participatory way and suggests multiple modes of knowledge production that are mutually embedded in science and other parts of society
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