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. 2023;5(1):6.
doi: 10.1186/s42854-023-00051-1. Epub 2023 Apr 3.

Critical pedagogical designs for SETS knowledge co-production: online peer- and problem-based learning by and for early career green infrastructure experts

Mathieu Feagan  1 , Megan Fork  2 , Geneva Gray  3 , Maike Hamann  4 , Jason K Hawes  5 , Elizabeth H T Hiroyasu  6 , Brooke Wilkerson  7   8
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Critical pedagogical designs for SETS knowledge co-production: online peer- and problem-based learning by and for early career green infrastructure experts

Mathieu Feagan et al. Urban Transform. 2023.

Abstract

Despite a growing understanding of the importance of knowledge co-production for just and sustainable urban transformations, early career green infrastructure experts typically lack opportunities to practice transdisciplinary knowledge co-production approaches within their normal training and professional development. However, using online collaboration technologies combined with peer- and problem-based learning can help address this gap by putting early career green infrastructure experts in charge of organizing their own knowledge co-production activities. Using the case study of an online symposia series focused on social-ecological-technological systems approaches to holistic green infrastructure implementation, we discuss how critical pedagogical designs help create favorable conditions for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production. Our work suggests that the early career position offers a unique standpoint from which to better understand the limitations of current institutional structures of expertise, with a view towards their transformation through collective action.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s42854-023-00051-1.

Keywords: Capacity building; Co-production; Critical pedagogy; Early career; Green infrastructure; Online collaboration; Social-ecological-technological systems; Transformation.

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Competing interestsNone to declare.

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Interactions Across Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS)
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Time zone locations, institutional affiliations and SETS expertise of "Get Ready, Get SETS: GI! participants (The time-zone map is generated based on optional self-reported information from participants, but not all of the fifty-four participants chose to share this information)
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Timeline of activities surrounding the “Get Ready, Get SETS: GI!” symposia series. Proposal development (green); collaborations with external colleagues and institutions (blue); selected applications from participants (brown); format design of symposia activities (red). When participants reached the final symposium in November 2020 (blue circles), ongoing engagement activities (orange) were initiated
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A visual summary of Symposium 2, the launch of the problem-based learning scenario and case study
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