“Exploring Transdisciplinary Education combining Arts & Sciences” is a EUR+ project that aims to recalibrate 21st century education in order to address the complex problems of current and future times. The project’s consortium is formed by seven European universities – Erasmus University Rotterdam, Technological University Dublin, Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design Budapest, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Roskilde University, Codarts Rotterdam, Zurich University of the Arts – united by common interest in transdisciplinary education.
The main objective of the project was to design innovative, transdisciplinary education methods in which the imaginative and the transferrable, the sensory and the non-sensory, co-inhabit, collaborate, and compose new perspectives and futures by using scientific knowledge, as well as visual and embodied experiences.
The project developed elements required to enable the inclusion of transdisciplinarity in regular curricula all over Europe trough different groups. Four groups were formed by teachers / researchers / students from the different institutes, developing (1) a code of conduct, (2) a tuning document for transdisciplinary education, (3) a transdisciplinary Minor programme as well as (4) a collection of transdisciplinary education methods and case studies. The latter group produced an edited volume titled “This is not a Gardening Book: The Cultivation of Transdisciplinary Practices”, edited by Wander M. van Baalen, Jana Thierfelder and Patrick Müller.