“Interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are multidimensional and entail heterogeneous practices, values, methods, institutionalising processes, imaginaries and programmatic approaches.”

Got that?

“As interdisciplinary collaborations become central to addressing complex challenges in climate, energy, and sustainability, the role of the social sciences and humanities is more crucial—and more contested—than ever.”

Uh-oh.

Through collaborative activities and focused dialogue, Sustainability Cadres from MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism (SHASS) are drafting a tailored guidance document that reflects the “lived experiences” of faux climate researchers at MIT.

Here they come.

SHASS + STEM Collaborations Workshops play a crucial role helping innumerate humanities professors colonize the hard sciences and engineering. At these workshops, trainees engage with tools from the EU-developed SHAPE-ID Toolkit, designed to help overcome the power imbalances that protect STEM from the Woke Mind Virus.

September’s workshops were led by Bianca Vienni-Baptista, PhD in Cultural Studies and Word Salad Fabrication. She is Obergruppenleader of Cultural Studies of Science and Technology and lecturer at the Transdisciplinarity Lab at ETH Zurich.

The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) is the primary vehicle through which SHASS is infiltrating STEM, aided and abetted by former Dean Anantha Chandrakasan, recently elevated to Provost.

“Can a shift in how we understand interdisciplinarity and its transformative potential enhance its impact on funding and policy?” MIT’s Anthropology Department sure hopes so. Which is why it plays a leading role in the SHASS Sustainability Project.

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