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Lately, there has been a tendency in academia to call for more interdisciplinary research on sustainable mobility. However, there is a lack of empirical research on practiced interdisciplinarity. This paper seeks to address this by exploring the practices of an intended interdisciplinary doctoral research group. Specifically, it presents the study of a collaborative autoethnography using individual vignettes and qualitative data analysis. The results classify the identified interdisciplinary practices into three main categories: Interactions, productive processes, and negotiation processes, where interactions serve as a carrier for negotiation and productive processes. This also uncovers advantages and challenges associated with these interactions. Furthermore, the analysis reveals intersubjectivity as an important component of the infrastructure of interdisciplinarity involved in both processes. Finally, we call for a reevaluation of the hierarchical thinking about the different levels of interdisciplinarity, going from disciplinary to multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary research. We conclude that for interdisciplinarity to happen in practice, it requires having a combination of various disciplines, ontologies, and a common “wicked” problem to solve. We also find that developing an interdisciplinary research environment requires researchers to embark on a shared journey of reaching a higher level of intersubjectivity through continuous interactions and discussions, while also negotiating conflicts.
Dominic Villeneuve; David Durán-Rodas; Anthony Ferri; Tobias Kuttler; Julie Magelund; Michael Mögele; Luca Nitschke; Eriketti Servou; Cat Silva. What is Interdisciplinarity in Practice? Critical Reflections on Doing Mobility Research in an Intended Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Group. Sustainability 2019, 12, 197 .
AMA StyleDominic Villeneuve, David Durán-Rodas, Anthony Ferri, Tobias Kuttler, Julie Magelund, Michael Mögele, Luca Nitschke, Eriketti Servou, Cat Silva. What is Interdisciplinarity in Practice? Critical Reflections on Doing Mobility Research in an Intended Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Group. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):197.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDominic Villeneuve; David Durán-Rodas; Anthony Ferri; Tobias Kuttler; Julie Magelund; Michael Mögele; Luca Nitschke; Eriketti Servou; Cat Silva. 2019. "What is Interdisciplinarity in Practice? Critical Reflections on Doing Mobility Research in an Intended Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Group." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 197.
Eriketti Servou. Investigating the Socio-Technical Transition Towards Autonomous Driving: The Examples of the Metropolitan Regions of Munich and Stuttgart. Transportation Research Procedia 2019, 41, 545 -547.
AMA StyleEriketti Servou. Investigating the Socio-Technical Transition Towards Autonomous Driving: The Examples of the Metropolitan Regions of Munich and Stuttgart. Transportation Research Procedia. 2019; 41 ():545-547.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEriketti Servou. 2019. "Investigating the Socio-Technical Transition Towards Autonomous Driving: The Examples of the Metropolitan Regions of Munich and Stuttgart." Transportation Research Procedia 41, no. : 545-547.
Cities have changed their pulse, their pace, and reach, and the urban scale is an interconnected element of the global “network society” with new forms of social, cultural and economic life emerging. The increase in the amount and speed of mobilities has strong impacts on ecological conditions, and, so far, no comprehensive sustainable solutions are in sight. This paper focuses on the discussion around smart cities, with a specific focus on automation and sustainability. Discourses on automated mobility in urban spaces are in a process of creation and different stakeholders contribute in shaping the urban space and its infrastructures for automated driving in the near or distant future. In many ways, it seems that the current storylines, to a high degree, reinforce and (re)produce the “system of automobility”. Automobility is still treated as the iconic and taken-for-granted form of modern mobility. It seems that most actors from industry, planning, and politics consider it as being sustained through smart and green mobility innovations and modifications. The paper discusses the implication of these techno-policy discourses and storylines for urban planning. It presents preliminary results from ongoing research on policy promotion strategies of automated driving in the region of Munich, Germany.
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring; Eriketti Servou. What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation. Sustainability 2019, 11, 221 .
AMA StyleMalene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring, Eriketti Servou. What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (1):221.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMalene Freudendal-Pedersen; Sven Kesselring; Eriketti Servou. 2019. "What is Smart for the Future City? Mobilities and Automation." Sustainability 11, no. 1: 221.
Eriketti Servou. A Methodological Approach on Studying Policy-making of Autonomous Driving in Cities. plaNext - next generation planning 2019, 9, 11 -25.
AMA StyleEriketti Servou. A Methodological Approach on Studying Policy-making of Autonomous Driving in Cities. plaNext - next generation planning. 2019; 9 (1):11-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEriketti Servou. 2019. "A Methodological Approach on Studying Policy-making of Autonomous Driving in Cities." plaNext - next generation planning 9, no. 1: 11-25.