exercise · all tools
Travelling Concepts
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Duos take one concept — resilience, energy, sustainability — and trace how it travels between their disciplines, watching its meaning shift en route. Interdisciplinary conversation practiced as exploration rather than problem-solving: the goal is to notice the shift, not to win the definition.
Practical
- Time
- 120 min
- Group
- 8–40 · pairs
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Pen, paper, handout
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Brianne McGonigle Leyh & Tessa Diphoorn via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); 'travelling concepts' from Mieke Bal's humanities methodology — Interdisciplinary humanities pedagogy
Instructions: open online
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25