Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Dr. Viola Hakkarainen


Lehrveranstaltungen

Transdisciplinary Research Design - Vorlesung (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C HS 4 | HS 4

Inhalt: Theoretical and epistemological fundamentals of transdisciplinary sustainability research. It introduces integrative approaches to socially-relevant problems, transformative methods of sustainability research, collaboration skills, and team roles. In parallel to the lecture, students begin to familiarize themselves with the strand-specific case (i.e., context, structures and processes, historical development), and explore possible joint research objects.

Transdisciplinary Research Design - Seminar B (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen

Termin:
 14-täglich | Donnerstag | 12:30 - 14:00 | 20.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 14.001 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar A and B we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Theoretical and epistemological fundamentals of transdisciplinary sustainability research. Integrative approaches to socially-relevant problems, transformative methods of sustainability research, collaboration skills, and team roles.

Transdisciplinary Research Design - Seminar A (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen

Termin:
 14-täglich | Donnerstag | 12:30 - 14:00 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 14.001 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar A and B we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Theoretical and epistemological fundamentals of transdisciplinary sustainability research. Integrative approaches to socially-relevant problems, transformative methods of sustainability research, collaboration skills, and team roles.

Basics of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity - lecture (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C HS 3

Inhalt: Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes).

Basics of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity - Seminar 1 (for GESS) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 40.146 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes.

Basics of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity - Seminar 2 (for GESS) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 12.102 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes.

Inter- und Transdisziplinäre Grundlagen - Seminar 3 Uwi (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:00 - 13:30 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 14.203 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes.

Inter- und Transdisziplinäre Grundlagen - Seminar 4 Uwi (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 14.204 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes.

Inter- und Transdisziplinäre Grundlagen - Seminar 5 Uwi (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Viola Hakkarainen, Jens Newig

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 12:30 - 14:00 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 40.255 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In the Seminar we excercise and discuss the contents of the related lecture. We will have literature work, excercises, group discussions and presentations. Overview of systemic and governance-related structure of sustainability problems. Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods for knowledge integration and identifying, framing and solving (sustainability) problems: Actor and system analysis, future studies, assessment approaches, integrative approaches of problem transformation and solving, methods for designig and implementating collaborative processes (both transdisciplinary research approaches and approaches for supporting societal negotiation processes.

Entfällt !!! Climate Resilient Communities in the Carribean (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Steffen Farny, Viola Hakkarainen

For SRMC and SGL students - Food today and in the future: challenges and opportunities (Pro) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Vania Gomes Zuin Zeidler, Viola Hakkarainen, Oliver Claus Schmidt

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Do, 13.11.2025, 12:30 - Do, 13.11.2025, 14:00 | C 40.164 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mo, 05.01.2026, 14:15 - Mo, 05.01.2026, 15:45 | C 7.013 Seminarraum | Bitte Raum für ca. 25 Personen suchen
Einzeltermin | Mo, 19.01.2026, 14:15 - Mo, 19.01.2026, 15:45 | C 7.013 Seminarraum | Bitte Raum für ca. 25 Personen suchen

Inhalt: Food can shed new light on the debate about common objects and social ontology and the division and interconnection between nature and culture, covering biological purpose, composition, sources (such as plants, animals, fungi or others), forms, cultural and social significance (such as cultural identity, social bonding, comfort and pleasure). This includes the chemical and physical nature of food: what was, is and will it be made of? And how? What tastes, flavors, textures, appearances, colors and design of processing and additives aiming at greater attractiveness and consumption? How do engineering, chemistry, toxicology, medicine, psychology, social, food and material sciences (e.g., for packaging design) and advertising / communication manifest and materialize in food? What remains of them, the avoidable food waste in different cycles and countries? Food is a central theme of many contemporary debates on malnutrition, eating disorders, obesity, prevalent silent diseases, contaminants and problems related to degradable and composable packaging for consumer goods, regulation, (international) fair trade and geopolitics, especially important considering the links between sustainability of food supplies. To this end, it is necessary to identify relevant initiatives (company, farm, school, NGO, research centers, and any other pertinent institution), focusing on key criteria: e.g., food production (agriculture), processing (feedstocks, materials and techniques), consumption, food waste and loss prevention, policy, legislation, labeling, official testing laboratory, (bio)circular economy, design and market of healthier products, food security, right to food and right food as well as the interlinks with, for instance, educational institutions, programs and strategies.