“COLLOC” stands for “Collaborative Production of Transformation Knowledge in Self-Organized Occupations”. The “COLLOC 2021” Alumni Workshop is part of the collaborative “COLLOC Workshop Series”, which aims for the production of transformation knowledge. This kind of knowledge is made possible through the participation of many stakeholders, such as local actors and students. This collaboration structurally anchors an expansion of transdisciplinary cooperation and research in connection with teaching. Alumni will have the opportunity to learn and share their expertise on a concrete social problem in a local context as they practice, test and reflect on mutual learning, transdisciplinary work with various actors from science and society.

The Alumni Workshop takes place in three phases. The phases are oriented towards the methodology of transdisciplinary procedures in the implementation of continuing education and networking activities of the alumni. The phases follow a transdisciplinary process design and include the following:

Methodologically, appropriate tools are planned for the three project phases that will enable permanent participation in the entire workshop process as well as further training for transdisciplinary research and networking. The workshop will focus on the self-organised occupation of Solano Trindade in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. By working closely together with community leaders, activists, residents, practitioners, academics, and students, the workshop will address the need for integrating knowledge coming from various actors and disciplines in order to tackle complex urban development challenges in a more suitable and innovative way.

Together, we will design context-appropriate interventions and reflect on their impact in the future development of the self-organised occupation of Solano Trindade.

During the workshop participants are expected to:

• Combine and integrate their practical expertise with local expertise from academics, dwellers, and students

• Support the on-going projects as means for knowledge exchange and knowledge production

• Collaboratively design future scenarios for the further development of the focus area

• Arrive at local “problem-solutions” through the implementation of systemic design principles and transdisciplinary approaches

• Develop ideas to materialise co-produced knowledge in 1:1 interventions to be built collectively in place with students and local actors as a design-build project

Workshop objectives

//  Participants will expand their knowledge networks.

//  Participants will acquire expertise in planning with hybrid formats.

//  Participants will learn to develop solutions for a local context based on the integration of multiple knowledge bases from global contexts and mutual learning environments.

//  Participants will learn about transdisciplinarity as a mode of research and collaborative knowledge production. They will test and reflect on both with a practical project/experiment in the real-world (transdisciplinary format).

//  Participants will contribute to the development of a local community through built interventions and future scenarios and therefore co-produce of knowledge within complex social and natural networks.

// Participants will learn about online tools for collaboration and transdisciplinary research and how to use them in multi-stakeholder development projects.