Bianca Vienni Baptista
Biographic Data
| ID | 937991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bianca Vienni Baptista |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bianca Vienni |
| FAMILY NAME | Baptista |
| SIGNATURE | BAPTISTA B V |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1282-4288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who powers alpine photovoltaic projects? Fostering stakeholder engagement for energy democracy in Switzerland
Large-scale renewable energy infrastructures are increasingly deployed in sensitive and contested landscapes, where project development depends not only on technical feasibility but also on how affected stakeholders are engaged in decision-making. Alpine photovoltaic projects in Switzerland are a particularly relevant case, as they are promoted to address energy security while raising concerns over land use, environmental protection, landscape ch…
Advancing key transdisciplinary principles
“Learning by Doing”
This article examines how researchers who study inter- and transdisciplinary research practices conceptualise and navigate methodological choices. Drawing on science, technology and society (STS), we combined a meta-ethnography and semi-structured interviews with scholars engaged in investigating inter- and transdisciplinary research. Our analysis identifies four interrelated dynamic pairs: familiarity/exploration, systematisation/adaptability, t…
The challenge with climate-energy-economy models in constructing fair and equitable climate futures
Climate change and policy are unevenly experienced across nations, social groups, households, sectors, and generations. Understanding how benefits and burdens of climate action can be equitably shared is therefore critical. While the cornerstone concept of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’ is broadly accepted, the absence of consensus on equitable effort-sharing principles presents a challenge that permeates…
Training integration in science, policy and practice
To answer these questions, we combine our conceptual insights from studying integration with empirical insights from leading and engaging in integration in ITD projects or programs. We derive principles for designing and implementing integrative teaching and learning and then exemplify how we apply such principles in our MSc course "Integration in Science, Policy and Practice: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Concepts, Methods, Tools" at ETH Zurich i…
From consultation to inclusive engagement
Traditional modeling approaches for net-zero, sustainable development often prioritize technical and expert-driven inputs, producing outputs that overlook critical institutional and behavioral considerations. Although there has been growing interest in participatory approaches and transdisciplinary research in modeling, most processes currently stop at consultation, missing opportunities for deeper stakeholder integration. This paper introduces a…
Transformative inter- and transdisciplinary methods for global societal challenges
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are widely considered necessary to addressing complex, often called ́wicked ́, problems. Moreover, national and international funding schemes, institutional structures, and education programs have been created to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. However, there is a largely silenced ́wicked ́ problem in the heart of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: the precar…
Toolkitting
A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits. Fragmentation means that researchers are unaware of, and do not have access to, the full array of tools that could benefit their in…
Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity as Knowledge Regimes
This paper presents a heuristic tool aiming at bringing the multiple dimensions of interdisciplinarity (ID) and transdisciplinarity (TD) into direct conversation for researchers, funders, and policymakers. These societal actors have divergent conceptions, definitions, and practices of ID and TD that can be fruitfully put into dialogue to prosecute successful projects and programs. We anchor our study on the concept of "knowledge regime" and its t…
Investigating Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are collaborative research modes that help advance science dealing with grand societal challenges. However, many factors still act as obstacles to high-impact research, showing disconnections between practices and policies. We can reasonably question whether we are still incapable of applying the correct methods to grasp interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary heterogeneity. This article aims to deepen …
Building pathways between transdisciplinarity and transformation
The notion of “transformation” has moved from academic discussion and is now part of the discourse of public and private organizations. Here, we offer a systematic examination of how combining transformation and transdisciplinary approaches can support the transformation to sustainability.In recent years, the notion of “transformation” has moved from academia to the strategic agendas of public and private organizations. Within this discourse, bot…
Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for transdisciplinary learning and experimentation
This Special Focus highlights the potential of transdisciplinary research and learning to confront the complexity of the challenges facing society today. By serving as a bridge between science, practice and society, transdisciplinarity can be a means to help foster collaboration between diverse actors, question existing paradigms of knowledge co-production and build pathways towards transformation
Situated expertise in integration and implementation processes in Latin America
Several environmental, political, social and institutional factors have resulted in the heterogeneous and adaptive integration of knowledge, actors and methodologies in Latin America. Despite poor recognition and even a lack of research conditions, experiences involving different societal actors and types of collaboration have developed across the region. These experiences form a collection of integration and implementation processes not yet full…
Models of transdisciplinary knowledge production at universities
The main objective of this study is to better understand the challenges of transdisciplinary knowledge production processes and its institutionalisation at universities. Transdisciplinary research is considered a collaborative and integrative praxis grounded in different ways of knowing, acting and being. However, transdisciplinary research practices differ significantly in the relations between institutions and actors. These differences have an …
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy
Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation
In this communication, we present the background and core elements of the 2021 edition of the International Transdisciplinarity Conference . Beginning with a brief history of how the event was initiated and the role played by saguf in supporting its development, we then detail the main features of the conference and its relevance for transdisciplinary sustainability research and education
Seven years of the Gaia Masters Student Paper Award
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Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems
Expertise in research integration and implementation is an essential but often overlooked component of tackling complex societal and environmental problems. We focus on expertise relevant to any complex problem, especially contributory expertise, divided into ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how.’ We also deal with interactional expertise and the fact that much expertise is tacit. We explore three questions. First, in examining ‘when is expertise in r…
The desirability of transitions in demand
Transdisciplinary institutionalization in higher education
In this paper, we focus on the institutionalization of transdisciplinarity (TD) in higher education institutions and how they institutionalize Transdisciplinarity (TD). As such, universities have engaged in different activities to enact TD policies that aim at incorporating TD in their research and teaching. We take the Methodology Center at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg as a case study. We analyze the institutionalization process of TD to …
Interlinking open science and community-based participatory research for socio-environmental issues
This paper discusses how open science can be interlinked with community-based participatory research (CBPR) to address socio-environmental issues. By reviewing three case studies in Japan, the authors developed a theoretical framework to span these inter-actor boundaries by (1) discovering and sharing goals that actors with different interests could tackle together (the transcend method); (2) considering ethical equity with special attention to e…
Interdisciplinary Centers in Latin American Universities
Interdisciplinary socialization of archaeological heritage in Uruguay
Purpose – This paper presents the preliminary results of a research which relates two main strands: first, the socialization of scientific knowledge and second, the archaeological heritage. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the socialization process by integrating an “inter-approach” strategy in order to cope with the research problem. It also evaluates the potential of an interdisciplinary approach following the hypothesis that it strength…
Investigating Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are collaborative research modes that help advance science dealing with grand societal challenges. However, many factors still act as obstacles to high-impact research, showing disconnections between practices and policies. We can reasonably question whether we are still incapable of applying the correct methods to grasp interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary heterogeneity. This article aims to deepen …
Interdisciplinary Centers in Latin American Universities
Interlinking open science and community-based participatory research for socio-environmental issues
This paper discusses how open science can be interlinked with community-based participatory research (CBPR) to address socio-environmental issues. By reviewing three case studies in Japan, the authors developed a theoretical framework to span these inter-actor boundaries by (1) discovering and sharing goals that actors with different interests could tackle together (the transcend method); (2) considering ethical equity with special attention to e…
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are widely considered necessary to addressing complex, often called ́wicked ́, problems. Moreover, national and international funding schemes, institutional structures, and education programs have been created to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. However, there is a largely silenced ́wicked ́ problem in the heart of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: the precar…
Interdisciplinary socialization of archaeological heritage in Uruguay
Purpose – This paper presents the preliminary results of a research which relates two main strands: first, the socialization of scientific knowledge and second, the archaeological heritage. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the socialization process by integrating an “inter-approach” strategy in order to cope with the research problem. It also evaluates the potential of an interdisciplinary approach following the hypothesis that it strength…
Interdisciplinary Centers in Latin American Universities
Interlinking open science and community-based participatory research for socio-environmental issues
This paper discusses how open science can be interlinked with community-based participatory research (CBPR) to address socio-environmental issues. By reviewing three case studies in Japan, the authors developed a theoretical framework to span these inter-actor boundaries by (1) discovering and sharing goals that actors with different interests could tackle together (the transcend method); (2) considering ethical equity with special attention to e…
Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems
Expertise in research integration and implementation is an essential but often overlooked component of tackling complex societal and environmental problems. We focus on expertise relevant to any complex problem, especially contributory expertise, divided into ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how.’ We also deal with interactional expertise and the fact that much expertise is tacit. We explore three questions. First, in examining ‘when is expertise in r…
The desirability of transitions in demand
Transdisciplinary institutionalization in higher education
In this paper, we focus on the institutionalization of transdisciplinarity (TD) in higher education institutions and how they institutionalize Transdisciplinarity (TD). As such, universities have engaged in different activities to enact TD policies that aim at incorporating TD in their research and teaching. We take the Methodology Center at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg as a case study. We analyze the institutionalization process of TD to …
Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for learning and experimentation
In this communication, we present the background and core elements of the 2021 edition of the International Transdisciplinarity Conference . Beginning with a brief history of how the event was initiated and the role played by saguf in supporting its development, we then detail the main features of the conference and its relevance for transdisciplinary sustainability research and education
Seven years of the Gaia Masters Student Paper Award
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Situated expertise in integration and implementation processes in Latin America
Several environmental, political, social and institutional factors have resulted in the heterogeneous and adaptive integration of knowledge, actors and methodologies in Latin America. Despite poor recognition and even a lack of research conditions, experiences involving different societal actors and types of collaboration have developed across the region. These experiences form a collection of integration and implementation processes not yet full…
Models of transdisciplinary knowledge production at universities
The main objective of this study is to better understand the challenges of transdisciplinary knowledge production processes and its institutionalisation at universities. Transdisciplinary research is considered a collaborative and integrative praxis grounded in different ways of knowing, acting and being. However, transdisciplinary research practices differ significantly in the relations between institutions and actors. These differences have an …
Situated transdisciplinarity in university policy
Building pathways between transdisciplinarity and transformation
The notion of “transformation” has moved from academic discussion and is now part of the discourse of public and private organizations. Here, we offer a systematic examination of how combining transformation and transdisciplinary approaches can support the transformation to sustainability.In recent years, the notion of “transformation” has moved from academia to the strategic agendas of public and private organizations. Within this discourse, bot…
Creating spaces and cultivating mindsets for transdisciplinary learning and experimentation
This Special Focus highlights the potential of transdisciplinary research and learning to confront the complexity of the challenges facing society today. By serving as a bridge between science, practice and society, transdisciplinarity can be a means to help foster collaboration between diverse actors, question existing paradigms of knowledge co-production and build pathways towards transformation
Toolkitting
A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits. Fragmentation means that researchers are unaware of, and do not have access to, the full array of tools that could benefit their in…
Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity as Knowledge Regimes
This paper presents a heuristic tool aiming at bringing the multiple dimensions of interdisciplinarity (ID) and transdisciplinarity (TD) into direct conversation for researchers, funders, and policymakers. These societal actors have divergent conceptions, definitions, and practices of ID and TD that can be fruitfully put into dialogue to prosecute successful projects and programs. We anchor our study on the concept of "knowledge regime" and its t…
Investigating Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are collaborative research modes that help advance science dealing with grand societal challenges. However, many factors still act as obstacles to high-impact research, showing disconnections between practices and policies. We can reasonably question whether we are still incapable of applying the correct methods to grasp interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary heterogeneity. This article aims to deepen …
Transformative inter- and transdisciplinary methods for global societal challenges
Towards the Recognition of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Researchers
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research are widely considered necessary to addressing complex, often called ́wicked ́, problems. Moreover, national and international funding schemes, institutional structures, and education programs have been created to foster interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. However, there is a largely silenced ́wicked ́ problem in the heart of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research: the precar…
Who powers alpine photovoltaic projects? Fostering stakeholder engagement for energy democracy in Switzerland
Large-scale renewable energy infrastructures are increasingly deployed in sensitive and contested landscapes, where project development depends not only on technical feasibility but also on how affected stakeholders are engaged in decision-making. Alpine photovoltaic projects in Switzerland are a particularly relevant case, as they are promoted to address energy security while raising concerns over land use, environmental protection, landscape ch…
Advancing key transdisciplinary principles
“Learning by Doing”
This article examines how researchers who study inter- and transdisciplinary research practices conceptualise and navigate methodological choices. Drawing on science, technology and society (STS), we combined a meta-ethnography and semi-structured interviews with scholars engaged in investigating inter- and transdisciplinary research. Our analysis identifies four interrelated dynamic pairs: familiarity/exploration, systematisation/adaptability, t…
The challenge with climate-energy-economy models in constructing fair and equitable climate futures
Climate change and policy are unevenly experienced across nations, social groups, households, sectors, and generations. Understanding how benefits and burdens of climate action can be equitably shared is therefore critical. While the cornerstone concept of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’ is broadly accepted, the absence of consensus on equitable effort-sharing principles presents a challenge that permeates…
Training integration in science, policy and practice
To answer these questions, we combine our conceptual insights from studying integration with empirical insights from leading and engaging in integration in ITD projects or programs. We derive principles for designing and implementing integrative teaching and learning and then exemplify how we apply such principles in our MSc course "Integration in Science, Policy and Practice: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Concepts, Methods, Tools" at ETH Zurich i…
From consultation to inclusive engagement
Traditional modeling approaches for net-zero, sustainable development often prioritize technical and expert-driven inputs, producing outputs that overlook critical institutional and behavioral considerations. Although there has been growing interest in participatory approaches and transdisciplinary research in modeling, most processes currently stop at consultation, missing opportunities for deeper stakeholder integration. This paper introduces a…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (13 works) · Transdisciplinarity (13 works) · Social science (12 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Engineering ethics (9 works) · Knowledge management (8 works)