Transdisciplinarity in Practice: Capturing and Experiencing Knowledge across Disciplinary Boundaries
Bryon, Experience (2026) Transdisciplinarity in Practice: Capturing and Experiencing Knowledge across Disciplinary Boundaries. Other. Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte.Ltd..
Abstract
Transdisciplinarity in Practice critically examines how knowledge is produced, experienced, and captured across disciplinary boundaries. It offers a practice-based framework integrating embodied, performative, empirical, and conceptual methodologies. Engaging with the Nicolescuian and Zürich traditions, the book draws on philosophy, cognitive science, performance, and systems thinking to develop a dynamic practice of knowledging: doing and experiencing knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries. It introduces tools such as the active aesthetic and Integrative Performance Practice to rethink how knowledge operates in action. Structured in two parts, connected by a conceptual Intermezzo, the book first maps key transdisciplinary traditions and critiques the historical formation of disciplinarity. It explores the politics of knowledge, including power, value, failure, and collaboration. The Intermezzo introduces non-linear perspectives through systems thinking, rhizomes, and the holographic principle. Part II focuses on embodied performance, arguing that creative processes are essential to epistemological practice. Drawing on enactivism, it presents knowledge as enacted through experience. Concepts such as event(ing) and the middle field offer ways to capture knowledge in motion, supported by exercises and case studies. Key features: • Redefines transdisciplinarity as a practice-based methodology for navigating the complexity of working across disciplines. • Synthesises the Nicolescuian and Zürich traditions, tracing disciplinarity and its influence on knowledge cultures from Ancient Greece to the present. • Introduces original tools, including the active aesthetic and Integrative Performance Practice, to generate and capture emergent knowledge. • Supports flexible reading through diagrams, case studies, boxouts, a glossary, exercises, and practical tools.
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