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Scenario

How to navigate interdisciplinary team conflicts when expertise becomes territorial

Our research team has been tasked with addressing urban sustainability but we're a mess — engineers, sociologists, economists, and ecologists who can't seem to integrate our approaches. Every meeting feels like we're defending our disciplines rather than solving the actual problem and the deadline is approaching fast.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that bringing different knowledge systems together requires confronting the deeper question of how knowledge itself gets validated and prioritized.

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Patan
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“Where Are You with Interdisciplinary thinking?”

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