Transdisciplinary Environment for Affordable and Sustainable Housing

This report presents the Transdisciplinary Environment for Affordable and Sustainable Housing (TEASH) developed in the three-year activity of the RE-DWELL network. Together with Deliverables 4.1-4.5 and 4.7, it represents the work done in the project to create a transdisciplinary learning and research environment spanning over academia, research and practice.

The transdisciplinary learning and research environment built collaboratively throughout the project has been structured and systematized retrospectively to facilitate its understanding and future replication. The Transdisciplinary Environment for Affordable and Sustainable Housing (TEASH) is composed of four layers:

1. Crossing disciplines, necessary to understand the challenges and trade-offs at stake, to identify strategies across disciplines and fields (see Deliverables 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3)
2. Linking academia and society, to collaboratively construct knowledge around specific housing problems, based on a tripartite structure: target, systems, and transformation knowledge.
3. Exchanging knowledge, by means of tools and methods aimed at fostering the collaboration of the diverse stakeholders involved, experts and non-experts
4. Building impact, creating outputs -white papers, guidelines, policy recommendations, academic publications- that facilitate a better understanding of the specific challenges that the various stakeholder involved are facing.