The COVID-19 pandemic made much of the world end up in several entwined crises at once: a public health crisis, an economic crisis, a crisis of inequality, a knowledge crisis, and a moral crisis.
Attempting to get beyond these crises in a fair and equitable way, requires many types of knowledge and value articulations, and governance arrangements for weighing and connecting those. Disciplinary approaches do not suffice: in trying to solve one aspect of the problem, other aspects amplify, and new, unforeseen problems emerge. Alternatives to mono- or multi-disciplinary research include transdisciplinary approaches that entwine research and (policy) action. As this is precisely Athena’s expertise, we launched a platform that shows how we approach the corona crisis from diverse angles.