The iCSL 2 course is open to master's students from all disciplines. You work inter- and transdisciplinarily on challenges brought in by societal partners, gaining experience with research outside the academic context. Together with fellow students from other fields, you develop solutions in collaboration with communities, businesses, organisations and governments.
About the course: transdisciplinary research for societal challenges
Interdisciplinary Community Service Learning 2 (iCSL 2) is a part-time course spanning 21 weeks (6 ECTS). You work on challenges across a range of themes. This year these include (subject to change):
- Rethinking our place in urban ecosystems
- Gentrification and neighbourhood change
- Urban farming
- Inclusive city-making
- Designing support with asylum seekers
What will you do?
You join an interdisciplinary student team and work alongside societal partners. Each team member addresses one aspect of the broader challenge, drawing on their own disciplinary knowledge, methods and experience. You meet periodically to integrate insights and reflect on the wider societal implications. The course concludes with an interdisciplinary report and an interactive presentation to both academic and societal audiences.
Learning with your body
New this year, iCSL 2 includes a component on embodied learning. Next to reading, analysing and discussing, you take part in exercises based on Social Presencing Theater, an arts-based method that uses movement and non-verbal work to explore how you relate to others and to the systems you are part of. It helps bring out dynamics in your team and in the challenge itself that are hard to put into words, and gives you another way of knowing next to your analytical skills. The exercises are developed within the The Body as Teacher project at the Athena Institute.
For more information, you can sign up for Q&A sessions here:
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