Transdisciplinary Engineering

Engineering conversations across disciplinary boundaries.

 

The climate crisis presents complex challenges that need urgent actions and new ways of working bringing together many different fields.

This Failure Mode looks at how engineers can work together with the social sciences and the humanities, but also with the voices of policy-makers and local communities to generate sustainable solutions to global problems. 

We want to create a space where women and other under-represented groups can bring valuable experiences to the fore and where collective action is possible. This shared knowledge can lead to new solutions and better policies. 

This failure mode asks: 

1. What if disciplines were not silos but more like facets of a changing reality, or even ‘tents’ under which we can see a problem from different stances and under which different groups can gather?

4. How can we nurture and train engineers, from the classroom to the workplace to lead the transition to a sustainable future?