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Record W4417048793 · doi:10.1016/j.futures.2025.103747

Integrated Creative Practices (ICP) for transdisciplinary research and knowledge mobilization

2025· article· en· W4417048793 on OpenAlexafffund
Joshua R. Hale, Kelly Arbeau, David R. Cléments

Bibliographic record

VenueFutures · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicInterdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
Canadian institutionsTrinity Western UniversityWestern University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsMobilizationKnowledge creationKnowledge productionTransdisciplinarity

Abstract

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Creative practices have long fueled innovation and insight in the sciences and beyond, yet there remains no widely adopted framework for integrating creative practices into transdisciplinary research. In response, we introduce the Integrated Creative Practices (ICP) framework, grounded in a transdisciplinary research project that addressed a complex environmental challenge. The ICP framework offers a pathway for researchers from the arts and sciences to collaborate with non-academic stakeholders in transdisciplinary research without sacrificing disciplinary rigor or practical outcomes. By leveraging design methods and creative practices, the framework facilitates collaboration across the arts and sciences while bridging the gap between knowledge and its mobilization. As a future-oriented discipline positioned at the intersection of the arts and sciences, design offers a unique set of tools, frameworks, and methods that are well-suited for addressing complex problems that require multifaceted solutions, robust stakeholder engagement, and iterative, non-linear approaches. Moreover, the inherently dialogic, participatory, and socially-oriented aspects of design methods and practices are uniquely well-suited to facilitating transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge the knowledge-to-action gap limiting the impact of academic research.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.071
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.046
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.929
Threshold uncertainty score0.376

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0710.046
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0080.005
Science and technology studies0.0100.058
Scholarly communication0.0220.015
Open science0.0060.031
Research integrity0.0080.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.305
GPT teacher head0.582
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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