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Papers by Hans Dieleman

World futures, Apr 23, 2024

Perspectivas desde la Complejidad y Ciencias Sociales Centro de Estudios de la Complejidad “Carlos Maldonado", 2020, ISBN 978-607-98943-8-2, págs. 143-166, 2020

Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture, 2019

This chapter presents an innovation system approach for urban agriculture. It argues that urban a... more This chapter presents an innovation system approach for urban agriculture. It argues that urban agriculture is a systemic concept – agriculture intertwined with urban dynamic – but that a systemic approach is often missing. Such an approach allows identifying strengths and weaknesses of urban agriculture for a particular city, region or country, in a comprehensive way. Based on these insights, more precise and targeted policies can be designed to stimulate urban agriculture and innovations needed in its context. The chapter illustrates this through the presentation of urban agriculture in Mexico City, presented in a number of elements of an innovation system, such as system boundaries, dynamics, institutions, knowledge, and learning cultures. Cultural dimensions are as yet only rarely recognized. The chapter describes how the cultural dimensions of urban agriculture are very important in understanding the case of Mexico City, and probably in much more cities.

The book presents a wide variety of contributions, coming from authors located in the Unites Stat... more The book presents a wide variety of contributions, coming from authors located in the Unites States, various European countries, Mexico and New Zealand. In terms of the content, the chapters may at first glance look to have little in common, as they touch upon a wide range of topics such as the United States petroleum industry, inter-disciplinarity in the academic environmental sector in Mexico, photosynthesis, the philosophy of transdisciplinarity, artful sustainability, indigenous cultures, scientific collaboration, aesthetic experience, the Indian sacred book Atharva-Veda, and decision-making processes. Nevertheless, there is common ground in all of them. The message in almost all chapters is that transdisciplinarity is not a recent invention or a novel concept referring to a new practice. On the contrary, transdisciplinarity basically always existed; as a practice, in science, in art, in indigenous cultures as well as in decision-making process. Transdisciplinary knowledge production is not something that we need to create, but that we rather need to recognize and work with, in knowledgeable and educated ways.

This article sketches two contrasting ideal-typical narratives of sustainability, a disenchanting... more This article sketches two contrasting ideal-typical narratives of sustainability, a disenchanting and an enchanting one, and argues that current thinking in sustainability is mainly situated in the narrative of disenchantment. This narrative is based on various obsolete philosophical assumptions, and hampers the transformation process, as it distances the population from being part of this. It then sketches the narrative of enchanting sustainability and shows how this has the capacity to engage, intrigue and motivate people to be involved. It is rooted in an arts-based approach of connecting aesthetics, associative thinking, reflective practice, emotion-based working, aspiration and intentionality. The article moves on beyond the two ideal-types, making a plea for a hybridization, and proposes transdisciplinary hermeneutics as a practice of realizing this hybridization. Finally it explains how arts-based education for sustainability is, in various ways, key in the transformation process towards enchanting and transdisciplinary sustainability.

Greening of Industry Networks Studies, 2018

This chapter deals with the potentials and challenges – the strengths and weaknesses – of Mexico ... more This chapter deals with the potentials and challenges – the strengths and weaknesses – of Mexico in moving towards a circular economy. In answering this question, the chapter does not look at reduction, reuse and recycling of waste in a narrow sense but approaches the topic from a wide and systemic perspective inspired by the concept of national innovation systems. The authors first provide some key data with respect to the current handling and management of waste in Mexico and then present in a conceptual way their systemic view on a circular economy. Subsequently they explore the potentials and challenges for Mexico, revising the following elements of their conceptual model: “market trends and conditions”; “competitiveness and productivity”; “the political and regulatory framework”; “education, training and knowledge transfer”; and “learning culture”. They finish off with some conclusions concerning the potentials and challenges of Mexico in moving towards a circular economy.

Culture and sustainability are two complex concepts which have been defined across many disciplin... more Culture and sustainability are two complex concepts which have been defined across many disciplines. Still, in both cases, no common definition has been accepted, nor can we say that the studies of these issues have been complete. On the contrary, culture and sustainability will always be relevant issues for analysis, because they strongly affect our daily lives. To determine the ways in which culture and sustainability are interconnected in this rapidly changing world is, obviously, a difficult task to undertake. Even though the editors argue that culture has rarely been central to discussions around sustainability, this ends up being less relevant. The reason is that the book is primarily about new models of transdisciplinary thinking in sustainable development.

This article explores the concept of transdisciplinarity as a cultural endeavor. It centers on th... more This article explores the concept of transdisciplinarity as a cultural endeavor. It centers on the concept of transdisciplinary hermeneutics, as a form of contextualizing science in the framework of cultural ideas, subjective experiences of the researchers involved in the research process, and of imagination and the artful creation of possible new realities. The concept is rooted in the work of Basarab Nicolescu and the Paris based CIRET, the "Centre International de Recherches et Études Transdisciplinaires." In this approach, reality is seen as complex and multilayered, and cannot be known only through the lens of modern science. Philosophy, art and subjective experience are essential and complementary ways of knowledge production that provide context to scientific knowledge, giving it meaning and perspective. To be able to engage in transdisciplinary hermeneutics, researchers need to complement cognitive knowing with embodied and enacted knowing. They as well need to combine the formal and science-based language of what is seen and measured, with the poetic, polyphonic and metaphorical language of what is unseen but sensed, felt and envisioned. The article finally sketches the importance of two competencies that transdisciplinary researchers need to acquire, the competencies of mindfulness and of transdisciplinary dialogue of knowledges.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2017

his article interrogates time and presents the results of an ethnographic study in a railway stat... more his article interrogates time and presents the results of an ethnographic study in a railway station in the suburbs of Paris. More in particular, it analyses the interactions of some of the passengers with 'Texel', an experimental artistic dispositive composed of a number of hourglasses that responds to the movements of the passengers. The study identifies several processes and conditions that explain why some passengers did interact with Texel, while others did not. Subsequently, it explores aesthetic experiences realized during the interaction of people with the device. It focuses on the passage from "aesthetics of perception" to "aesthetics of operation", and on interactive works of art creating such aesthetics. It observes that this takes place in spaces in between the internal experience of the passenger and the external reality of the artistic device, and that this aesthetics is transdisciplinary as it integrates cognition, emotions and enacting. Finally, the article explores some links between aesthetic experience and transdisciplinary hermeneutics, and between intermediary spaces of experience and Nicolescu's concept of the Third Included.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2012

This article links transdisciplinarity with reflective action and artful doing, as well as with t... more This article links transdisciplinarity with reflective action and artful doing, as well as with the concept of spaces of experimentation and imagination. It argues that artful doing is a genuine transdisciplinary practice that is at once rooted in sensitivity, intuition as well as analytical rationality. It organically links analytical and feelings intelligence with the intelligence of the body. It goes on to show how artful doing can be studied, taught and practiced in spaces of experimentation and imagination. Such spaces invite to explore the world simultaneously on various levels of reality and through various activities such as analysis, introspection, dialogues of knowing, manipulating reality thus constructing alternative realities. The article analysis that working in such spaces implies hybridization of usually separated spheres as art, science, engineering, design, public policy, education, and more. Finally, the article focuses on implementing transdisciplinarity in unive...

Composites, 1988

High volume fraction carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have a stiffness-to-weight ratio mu... more High volume fraction carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have a stiffness-to-weight ratio much greater than some conventional metallic materials but the material damping is low. Damping may be increased by the use of short fibres or a matrix material with high dissipation. Experimental and theoretical studies are described which show that a lamina can be made which has high damping; the effects of lamina properties on those of the laminate have been investigated. The effects of fibre length, matrix type and fibre orientation have been assessed with the objective of optimizing the dynamic properties of laminated CFRP plates using combinations of short/continuous fibres and conventional/highly dissipative resin matrices.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2014

hen trying to glimpse at the possible realization of transdisciplinary, Basarab Nicolescu points ... more hen trying to glimpse at the possible realization of transdisciplinary, Basarab Nicolescu points throughout his work at the powerful potentials of the narrative, particularly in its literary manifestation. In response to that and with the intention to contribute to the further development of transdisciplinary theory and methodology, we aim to explore the potentials of the narrative as a form of transdisciplinary knowing that is rigorous yet escapes from the strict methodology imposed by positive science. Our contribution will explore the narrative in its aesthetic form (literature), in its form of vivid culture as well as in its form of cosmological fundamentals (stories and legends). It will analyze if and how the narrative offers a platform to entangle the abundant heritage of human experiences, both in a historic as well as in an individual way. It will finally asks if this lively, discontinuous and complex way of knowing may be a base for the construction of a more open, accessible and democratic house of knowledge.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2015

he article argues that transdisciplinarity in general and transdisciplinary hermeneutics in parti... more he article argues that transdisciplinarity in general and transdisciplinary hermeneutics in particular offers a framework for people to connect with reality integrating rationality, emotions, the corporal and the spirituality. Such integration is important in realizing our dreams and utopias, as is illustrated with Scharmer's concept of "presencing" and Bloch's concept of "anticipative consciousness". It is equally important in diminishing social inertia vis-vis problems like Climate Change or sustainability in general. This is illustrated presenting ideas of various philosophers, writers and artists, among them Hannah Arendt, Joseph Beuys and Norma Bateson. Subsequently a proposal for a transdisciplinary hermeneutics is presented as a dialogue with Reality, integrating experiential, formal and direct knowing allowing us to connect with both our inner self and the outside world, listening to how we allow the world to disclose itself. Finally it mentions how such a hermeneutical practice can be realized in spaces of imagination and experimentation.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2016

his article explores Bateson's concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical id... more his article explores Bateson's concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores its consequences for our ways of knowing, and concludes that the Mind as Ecology needs to be nourished by an Ecology of Knowing including direct and phenomenological knowing, autobiographic and experience-based knowing, and formal and science-based knowing. The article argues that such Ecologies of Knowing can be realized through the practice of Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. It finally presents seven steps to teach Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. Two of these steps focus on the learning process as a whole, and five explore particular ways of knowing, and how to teach them.

Revista Internacional De Contaminacion Ambiental, Jun 1, 2007

Cleaner production to reduce industrial environmental impact Cleaner production is a specific app... more Cleaner production to reduce industrial environmental impact Cleaner production is a specific approach to reduce industrial environmental impact. The origin of the approach is to be found in the American company 3M. In 1975 3M initiated its 3P-program: its "Pollution Prevention Pays" program. The philosophy of the program was that any waste produced during the production process is to be regarded as a misallocation of input materials. The 3M-3P-program was designed to work through the inputs of the employees. Employees were encouraged to report options that could reduce waste and emissions and could save money at the same time. The company promised that any option that would reduce costs would be implemented and the employee would receive a reward for reporting the option. In this way 3M was able to reduce considerable amounts of waste and considerable amounts of costs at the same time (Royston 1979). Obviously the approach attracted attention from various sides. In 1984 3M was awarded with the

International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability, 2015

The article discusses the implementation of new curricula in the Engineering School of the Autono... more The article discusses the implementation of new curricula in the Engineering School of the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico City, Campus Azcapotzalco. The curricula aim at fostering student citizenship, and at training transdisciplinary practices. First, the concepts of citizenship and transdisciplinarity are introduced and discussed, with an emphasis on Nicolescu's concept of transdisciplinarity that emphasises the integration of formal, experiential and direct knowing. The article makes a plea for such integration in curricula so they become like rich ecologies incorporating various ways of knowing. Then, the implementation process is analysed, addressing resistance encountered and changes made, up to the final curricula acceptance. The article concludes that designing transdisciplinary curricula implies the introduction of a new paradigm that: 1) needs to be broadly discussed; 2) involves training of the academic staff; 3) asks seeing curricula in a real systemic way placing each course within the context of the broader whole.

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017

Urban agriculture in Mexico City; Balancing between ecological, economic, social and symbolic val... more Urban agriculture in Mexico City; Balancing between ecological, economic, social and symbolic value article for the special issue on urban ecological infrastructure for healthier cities:

Revista Internacional De Contaminacion Ambiental, Aug 1, 2008

World futures, Apr 23, 2024

Perspectivas desde la Complejidad y Ciencias Sociales Centro de Estudios de la Complejidad “Carlos Maldonado", 2020, ISBN 978-607-98943-8-2, págs. 143-166, 2020

Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture, 2019

This chapter presents an innovation system approach for urban agriculture. It argues that urban a... more This chapter presents an innovation system approach for urban agriculture. It argues that urban agriculture is a systemic concept – agriculture intertwined with urban dynamic – but that a systemic approach is often missing. Such an approach allows identifying strengths and weaknesses of urban agriculture for a particular city, region or country, in a comprehensive way. Based on these insights, more precise and targeted policies can be designed to stimulate urban agriculture and innovations needed in its context. The chapter illustrates this through the presentation of urban agriculture in Mexico City, presented in a number of elements of an innovation system, such as system boundaries, dynamics, institutions, knowledge, and learning cultures. Cultural dimensions are as yet only rarely recognized. The chapter describes how the cultural dimensions of urban agriculture are very important in understanding the case of Mexico City, and probably in much more cities.

The book presents a wide variety of contributions, coming from authors located in the Unites Stat... more The book presents a wide variety of contributions, coming from authors located in the Unites States, various European countries, Mexico and New Zealand. In terms of the content, the chapters may at first glance look to have little in common, as they touch upon a wide range of topics such as the United States petroleum industry, inter-disciplinarity in the academic environmental sector in Mexico, photosynthesis, the philosophy of transdisciplinarity, artful sustainability, indigenous cultures, scientific collaboration, aesthetic experience, the Indian sacred book Atharva-Veda, and decision-making processes. Nevertheless, there is common ground in all of them. The message in almost all chapters is that transdisciplinarity is not a recent invention or a novel concept referring to a new practice. On the contrary, transdisciplinarity basically always existed; as a practice, in science, in art, in indigenous cultures as well as in decision-making process. Transdisciplinary knowledge production is not something that we need to create, but that we rather need to recognize and work with, in knowledgeable and educated ways.

This article sketches two contrasting ideal-typical narratives of sustainability, a disenchanting... more This article sketches two contrasting ideal-typical narratives of sustainability, a disenchanting and an enchanting one, and argues that current thinking in sustainability is mainly situated in the narrative of disenchantment. This narrative is based on various obsolete philosophical assumptions, and hampers the transformation process, as it distances the population from being part of this. It then sketches the narrative of enchanting sustainability and shows how this has the capacity to engage, intrigue and motivate people to be involved. It is rooted in an arts-based approach of connecting aesthetics, associative thinking, reflective practice, emotion-based working, aspiration and intentionality. The article moves on beyond the two ideal-types, making a plea for a hybridization, and proposes transdisciplinary hermeneutics as a practice of realizing this hybridization. Finally it explains how arts-based education for sustainability is, in various ways, key in the transformation process towards enchanting and transdisciplinary sustainability.

Greening of Industry Networks Studies, 2018

This chapter deals with the potentials and challenges – the strengths and weaknesses – of Mexico ... more This chapter deals with the potentials and challenges – the strengths and weaknesses – of Mexico in moving towards a circular economy. In answering this question, the chapter does not look at reduction, reuse and recycling of waste in a narrow sense but approaches the topic from a wide and systemic perspective inspired by the concept of national innovation systems. The authors first provide some key data with respect to the current handling and management of waste in Mexico and then present in a conceptual way their systemic view on a circular economy. Subsequently they explore the potentials and challenges for Mexico, revising the following elements of their conceptual model: “market trends and conditions”; “competitiveness and productivity”; “the political and regulatory framework”; “education, training and knowledge transfer”; and “learning culture”. They finish off with some conclusions concerning the potentials and challenges of Mexico in moving towards a circular economy.

Culture and sustainability are two complex concepts which have been defined across many disciplin... more Culture and sustainability are two complex concepts which have been defined across many disciplines. Still, in both cases, no common definition has been accepted, nor can we say that the studies of these issues have been complete. On the contrary, culture and sustainability will always be relevant issues for analysis, because they strongly affect our daily lives. To determine the ways in which culture and sustainability are interconnected in this rapidly changing world is, obviously, a difficult task to undertake. Even though the editors argue that culture has rarely been central to discussions around sustainability, this ends up being less relevant. The reason is that the book is primarily about new models of transdisciplinary thinking in sustainable development.

This article explores the concept of transdisciplinarity as a cultural endeavor. It centers on th... more This article explores the concept of transdisciplinarity as a cultural endeavor. It centers on the concept of transdisciplinary hermeneutics, as a form of contextualizing science in the framework of cultural ideas, subjective experiences of the researchers involved in the research process, and of imagination and the artful creation of possible new realities. The concept is rooted in the work of Basarab Nicolescu and the Paris based CIRET, the "Centre International de Recherches et Études Transdisciplinaires." In this approach, reality is seen as complex and multilayered, and cannot be known only through the lens of modern science. Philosophy, art and subjective experience are essential and complementary ways of knowledge production that provide context to scientific knowledge, giving it meaning and perspective. To be able to engage in transdisciplinary hermeneutics, researchers need to complement cognitive knowing with embodied and enacted knowing. They as well need to combine the formal and science-based language of what is seen and measured, with the poetic, polyphonic and metaphorical language of what is unseen but sensed, felt and envisioned. The article finally sketches the importance of two competencies that transdisciplinary researchers need to acquire, the competencies of mindfulness and of transdisciplinary dialogue of knowledges.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2017

his article interrogates time and presents the results of an ethnographic study in a railway stat... more his article interrogates time and presents the results of an ethnographic study in a railway station in the suburbs of Paris. More in particular, it analyses the interactions of some of the passengers with 'Texel', an experimental artistic dispositive composed of a number of hourglasses that responds to the movements of the passengers. The study identifies several processes and conditions that explain why some passengers did interact with Texel, while others did not. Subsequently, it explores aesthetic experiences realized during the interaction of people with the device. It focuses on the passage from "aesthetics of perception" to "aesthetics of operation", and on interactive works of art creating such aesthetics. It observes that this takes place in spaces in between the internal experience of the passenger and the external reality of the artistic device, and that this aesthetics is transdisciplinary as it integrates cognition, emotions and enacting. Finally, the article explores some links between aesthetic experience and transdisciplinary hermeneutics, and between intermediary spaces of experience and Nicolescu's concept of the Third Included.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2012

This article links transdisciplinarity with reflective action and artful doing, as well as with t... more This article links transdisciplinarity with reflective action and artful doing, as well as with the concept of spaces of experimentation and imagination. It argues that artful doing is a genuine transdisciplinary practice that is at once rooted in sensitivity, intuition as well as analytical rationality. It organically links analytical and feelings intelligence with the intelligence of the body. It goes on to show how artful doing can be studied, taught and practiced in spaces of experimentation and imagination. Such spaces invite to explore the world simultaneously on various levels of reality and through various activities such as analysis, introspection, dialogues of knowing, manipulating reality thus constructing alternative realities. The article analysis that working in such spaces implies hybridization of usually separated spheres as art, science, engineering, design, public policy, education, and more. Finally, the article focuses on implementing transdisciplinarity in unive...

Composites, 1988

High volume fraction carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have a stiffness-to-weight ratio mu... more High volume fraction carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) have a stiffness-to-weight ratio much greater than some conventional metallic materials but the material damping is low. Damping may be increased by the use of short fibres or a matrix material with high dissipation. Experimental and theoretical studies are described which show that a lamina can be made which has high damping; the effects of lamina properties on those of the laminate have been investigated. The effects of fibre length, matrix type and fibre orientation have been assessed with the objective of optimizing the dynamic properties of laminated CFRP plates using combinations of short/continuous fibres and conventional/highly dissipative resin matrices.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2014

hen trying to glimpse at the possible realization of transdisciplinary, Basarab Nicolescu points ... more hen trying to glimpse at the possible realization of transdisciplinary, Basarab Nicolescu points throughout his work at the powerful potentials of the narrative, particularly in its literary manifestation. In response to that and with the intention to contribute to the further development of transdisciplinary theory and methodology, we aim to explore the potentials of the narrative as a form of transdisciplinary knowing that is rigorous yet escapes from the strict methodology imposed by positive science. Our contribution will explore the narrative in its aesthetic form (literature), in its form of vivid culture as well as in its form of cosmological fundamentals (stories and legends). It will analyze if and how the narrative offers a platform to entangle the abundant heritage of human experiences, both in a historic as well as in an individual way. It will finally asks if this lively, discontinuous and complex way of knowing may be a base for the construction of a more open, accessible and democratic house of knowledge.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2015

he article argues that transdisciplinarity in general and transdisciplinary hermeneutics in parti... more he article argues that transdisciplinarity in general and transdisciplinary hermeneutics in particular offers a framework for people to connect with reality integrating rationality, emotions, the corporal and the spirituality. Such integration is important in realizing our dreams and utopias, as is illustrated with Scharmer's concept of "presencing" and Bloch's concept of "anticipative consciousness". It is equally important in diminishing social inertia vis-vis problems like Climate Change or sustainability in general. This is illustrated presenting ideas of various philosophers, writers and artists, among them Hannah Arendt, Joseph Beuys and Norma Bateson. Subsequently a proposal for a transdisciplinary hermeneutics is presented as a dialogue with Reality, integrating experiential, formal and direct knowing allowing us to connect with both our inner self and the outside world, listening to how we allow the world to disclose itself. Finally it mentions how such a hermeneutical practice can be realized in spaces of imagination and experimentation.

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 2016

his article explores Bateson's concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical id... more his article explores Bateson's concept of the Mind as Ecology, in the context of philosophical ideas on phenomenology and embodied knowing, and neuroscientific ideas on embodied cognition. It equally links it with ancient oriental ideas regarding the relationship between body, mind and soul, and practices as meditation and yoga to nourish the body as an organ of perception. It then explores its consequences for our ways of knowing, and concludes that the Mind as Ecology needs to be nourished by an Ecology of Knowing including direct and phenomenological knowing, autobiographic and experience-based knowing, and formal and science-based knowing. The article argues that such Ecologies of Knowing can be realized through the practice of Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. It finally presents seven steps to teach Embodied Transdisciplinary Hermeneutics. Two of these steps focus on the learning process as a whole, and five explore particular ways of knowing, and how to teach them.

Revista Internacional De Contaminacion Ambiental, Jun 1, 2007

Cleaner production to reduce industrial environmental impact Cleaner production is a specific app... more Cleaner production to reduce industrial environmental impact Cleaner production is a specific approach to reduce industrial environmental impact. The origin of the approach is to be found in the American company 3M. In 1975 3M initiated its 3P-program: its "Pollution Prevention Pays" program. The philosophy of the program was that any waste produced during the production process is to be regarded as a misallocation of input materials. The 3M-3P-program was designed to work through the inputs of the employees. Employees were encouraged to report options that could reduce waste and emissions and could save money at the same time. The company promised that any option that would reduce costs would be implemented and the employee would receive a reward for reporting the option. In this way 3M was able to reduce considerable amounts of waste and considerable amounts of costs at the same time (Royston 1979). Obviously the approach attracted attention from various sides. In 1984 3M was awarded with the

International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability, 2015

The article discusses the implementation of new curricula in the Engineering School of the Autono... more The article discusses the implementation of new curricula in the Engineering School of the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico City, Campus Azcapotzalco. The curricula aim at fostering student citizenship, and at training transdisciplinary practices. First, the concepts of citizenship and transdisciplinarity are introduced and discussed, with an emphasis on Nicolescu's concept of transdisciplinarity that emphasises the integration of formal, experiential and direct knowing. The article makes a plea for such integration in curricula so they become like rich ecologies incorporating various ways of knowing. Then, the implementation process is analysed, addressing resistance encountered and changes made, up to the final curricula acceptance. The article concludes that designing transdisciplinary curricula implies the introduction of a new paradigm that: 1) needs to be broadly discussed; 2) involves training of the academic staff; 3) asks seeing curricula in a real systemic way placing each course within the context of the broader whole.

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017

Urban agriculture in Mexico City; Balancing between ecological, economic, social and symbolic val... more Urban agriculture in Mexico City; Balancing between ecological, economic, social and symbolic value article for the special issue on urban ecological infrastructure for healthier cities:

Revista Internacional De Contaminacion Ambiental, Aug 1, 2008

Las iniciativas ciudadanas sustentables en la Ciudad de México; fuerzas, debilidades y potencial para el largo plazo, 2017

Resumen Detrás del diseño de una política pública siempre se encuentra una determinada perspectiv... more Resumen Detrás del diseño de una política pública siempre se encuentra una determinada perspectiva sobre la realidad. En el caso de las ciudades, las políticas ambientales manejan una visión 'top-down' creando imágenes de una ciudad como un conjunto de edificios y artefactos fijos. El artículo argumenta que esta perspectiva debe ser completada con una visión 'bottom-up', donde la ciudad es un sistema complejo con muchas interacciones y conexiones entre actores, organizaciones, barrios y comunidades. El artículo ve a la Ciudad de México desde esta perspectiva, y presenta un panorama de 269 iniciativas ciudadanas en diferentes campos como la agricultura urbana, permacultura, derechos humanos y más. Luego presenta los resultados de una investigación más en detalle en 20 de estas iniciativas, identificando algunas fuerzas y debilidades, dando sugerencias para fortalecer su potencial en el largo plazo. La observación principal es que las iniciativas colaboran muy poco en redes, lo que delimita su potencial de ser agentes de transformación social. Las iniciativas desconfían del gobierno y no se ven como parte de un movimiento autónomo más grande. La recomendación principal es que tienen que aprender a colaborar y co-producir en redes, y compartir sus experiencias con otros actores en la ciudad.

3 y 4 de diciembre de 2015; La Ciudad de México /// La ciudad en la que viven Basarab Nicolesc... more 3 y 4 de diciembre de 2015; La Ciudad de México ///

La ciudad en la que viven Basarab Nicolescu y Edgar Morín es un espacio TRANSDISCIPLINARIO ya que tiene varios niveles de realidad: substancia y materia física y orgánica - funciones, relaciones y dinámicas económicas, sociales y culturales - violencia, armonía - lo simbólico y lo imaginario - ritmos, vibraciones, energías, emociones, sonidos, sabores, formas, colores, líneas y más. También es un COMPLEXUS o tejido de múltiples conexiones, acciones y una pluralidad de actores con un gran potencial productivo y creativo para ‘crear ciudad’ en un proceso incesante. Crea ‘bucles de retroalimentación positiva y constructiva’ entre sus actores y acciones, y no se encierra en la pregunta “¿que falta, cuales son mis problemas?” mientras que enfatiza lo que tiene disponible: conocimiento, habilidades, experiencias, sabiduría, imaginarios, sueños, aspiraciones y creatividad.

Para que la ciudad de Nicolescu y Morín funcione bien, requiere una estructura de gobernanza basada en su riqueza y diversidad, realizada en sus múltiples niveles de realidad. Las artes tienen un papel importante en esta ya que, en lo general, hacen uso de múltiples inteligencias y conocimientos en varios niveles de la realidad (formas, materiales, conceptos, procesos), dentro de una metodología amplia y reflexiva. No es sorprendente encontrar en la actualidad muchos artistas trabajando en comunidades, barrios y espacios públicos ‘creando ciudad’ desde sus capacidades artísticas específicas. La mesa se centra en el role de las artes en ‘crear ciudades’ desde la transdisciplinariedad y la complejidad.

What is the role of inter-/transdisciplinary approaches and arts in and for sustainable future(s)... more What is the role of inter-/transdisciplinary approaches and arts in and for sustainable future(s)? How can a transition take place at community level and what is the role of individuals? How can cultural knowledge or values be produced, co-produced and represented? How can culturally sensitive and embedded approaches be promoted in planning, cultural or place mapping, and through artistic and/or planning practices?
Culture(s) in Sustainable Futures Conference, Helsinki, 6-8-May, 2015
Plenary 3
Moderator: Sacha Kagan; Keynote: Frances Whitehead, Discussants: Lummina Horlings and Hans Dieleman
Contribution Dieleman starts at minute 49.15 in the Youtube Video

El cambio climático es un tema de interés para cientos de artistas en todas partes del mundo, res... more El cambio climático es un tema de interés para cientos de artistas en todas partes del mundo, resultando en un rango diverso de obras y proyectos incluyendo pinturas, esculturas, teatro, cine e intervenciones en espacios públicos relacionados con el cambio climático. La conferencia presenta varias de estas obras así como diversas redes internacionales de artistas e investigadores académicos en el campo del cambio climático. Despliega que el arte no sirve únicamente para la sensibilización y reflexión ya que resulta también en verdaderas propuestas concretas de mitigación o adaptación al cambio climático. Artistas mencionados son: Teresa Posyniak, Canada; Richard Groen, Países Bajos; Vaugn Bell, Estados Unidos; Rolf Engelen, Países Bajos; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Estados Unidos; Eve Mosher, Estados Unidos; James Reed, Surafrica; Alberto Vélez Alvarez, Colombia; Gabriel Orozco, México; Gregory C. Johnson, United States; Yann Athus Bertrand, Francia; Joseph Beuys, Alemania; Helios Beltran y Elisa Martinez, Mexico; David Haley, Inglaterra; Helen and Newton Harrison, Estados Unidos; Issac Cordal, España; Chantal Bilodeau, Canada; Jeanne Bloch, Francia; Antonio José García Cano, España; Daniel Crawford, United States; Cristina Alejos, España; Chris Fremantle, Inglaterra; Alejandro Duran, México; Ashar Chor, Bagladesh; Leonardo DiCaprio, Estados Unidos; Jason de Caires Taylor, Inglaterra

El Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXjO3q0gAw

Philosophy of the City has emerged as an international movement. To facilitate global discussions... more Philosophy of the City has emerged as an international movement. To facilitate global discussions, this conference series aims to establish new channels for dialogue: the city and social protest, alternatives to gentrification, smart cities, participatory approaches, urban food sovereignty, contributions from the history of philosophy to the city’s future, new forms of municipal democracy, future cities: eco-villages, megacities, or both? And more

Philosophy of the City has emerged as an international movement. To facilitate global discussions... more Philosophy of the City has emerged as an international movement. To facilitate global discussions, this conference series aims to establish new channels for dialogue. See:
http://www.philosophyofthecity.org

Call for: Academic Papers, Artistic Expressions, Demonstration of creativity-enhancing Games, Te... more Call for: Academic Papers, Artistic Expressions,
Demonstration of creativity-enhancing Games, Techniques and Exercises

for the workshop: CREATIVITY IN TRANSITION PROCESSES
TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
To be realized within the Global Cleaner Production & Sustainable Consumption Conference, Accelerating the Transition to Equitable Post Fossil-Carbon Societies, 1 - 4 November 2015, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, http://www.cleanerproductionconference.com/

In collaboration with Cultura21-International, Network in Cultural Fieldworks for Sustainability, http://www.cultura21.net

Deadline of the Call: 29 of May 2015

INTRODUCTION Few can have fully foreseen the success of the idea of ‘Sustainable Development’ whe... more INTRODUCTION Few can have fully foreseen the success of the idea of ‘Sustainable Development’ when it was introduced to a broad global audience in 1987 by the Brundtland report ‘Our Common Future’. Almost 30 years later, the idea is still increasingly being presented as a pathway to all that is good and desirable in society, widely adopted and frequently called-in-aid. Sustainability is essentially about the future(s) we want. This brings questions about the possible trajectories for a different future(s) and development of humanity. What can be achieved? How to surmount conflicts among competing values? What kind of political subject could emerge capable of making the decisions needed to ensure a better future? How to initiate and manage the sustainability transformation, both locally and globally? In order to meet many urgent challenges of the present, new modes of thinking and acting are required. It is increasingly agreed that sustainable development as incremental change is not sufficient, but a fundamental transformation to sustainability that concern the human systems as whole, is needed. This would mean a turning point for the contemporary humanity as a whole - a quest for a paradigm based on the choice of life lived humanly within the planetary boundaries not merely in physical sense, but even more in social, political and spiritual sense. This calls, in turn, for a better understanding of the role of culture in striving towards and achieving sustainability.


Mexico is een land vol verrassingen, waar de werkelijkheid telkens weer anders is. Mexicanen leve... more Mexico is een land vol verrassingen, waar de werkelijkheid telkens weer anders is. Mexicanen leven in een moderne wereld maar hun ware passies, dromen en emoties doen dat niet. Die gaan terug naar de tijd van voor de kolonialisatie. Alleen, die worden verborgen gehouden achter een masker, een facade of een decor. En dat maakt het heel moeilijk Mexico te begrijpen. Hans Dieleman woont er sinds 2005, en in ‘Maskers, macho’s, mañana’ neemt hij u mee naar die verrassende Mexicaanse werkelijkheid. Het verkeer en het winkelen in de stad, het afspraken maken met het altijd aanwezige ‘mañana’, morgen, we zien wel. De wereld van de Mexicaanse muziek, de macho’s en de liefde, de magie en het Mexicaanse eten. Ook besteedt hij aandacht aan de slecht functionerende overheid, de drugsoorlog en het koloniale verleden.Hij werkt toe naar de vraag wat zal de toekomst brengen, en het antwoord ligt volgens hem in het accepteren en omarmen van de interculturaliteit, in het vermengen van het moderne leven met elementen uit niet-moderne culturen. Iets wat in Mexico eigenlijk al eeuwen plaatsvindt maar nog te veel verborgen blijft. Maskers af dus! En dat kan ook wel eens heel interessant zijn voor andere delen van de wereld.

Scriptum, Schiedam,Gebonden | 220 pagina's | Kleur: fc | Taal: Nederlands | Afmetingen: 15 x 21 | ISBN: 9789055947454

http://www.scriptum.nl/boeken/mens-en-maatschappij/algemeen/maskers-macho-s-manana