Workshops

Workshop :
Preparing for Scholarly Journal Publications in Transdisciplinary Engineering

Publishing high-quality research is essential for advancing Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE),where knowledge must be communicated across technical, social, and contextual domains.However, many scholars encounter challenges when preparing manuscripts that meet the expectations of international journals.

This workshop is designed to help researchers develop the knowledge and skills needed to publish impactful work in TE-related journals. Organized and led by Editors-in-Chief and senior editorial board members from Advances in Engineering Informatics (ADVEI) and World Patent Information (WPI), the session will provide first-hand editorial perspectives on preparing, submitting, and revising manuscripts.

Key topics include aligning manuscripts with journal aims and scopes, understanding ethical standards for authorship and peer review, and managing the review and revision process. The workshop will also explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI) are changing scholarly publishing, both as tools for authors and as emerging aids for editorial workflows.

Through an interactive panel format, participants will engage directly with journal editors to ask questions, discuss challenges, and learn about special issue opportunities related to TE2026. The session supports the TE2026 goal of strengthening transdisciplinary collaboration and responsible knowledge sharing across global research communities.

Workshop :
A Collaborative Team Working Workshop toward Net-Zero Emissions from International Maritime Transport

This proposal outlines a collaborative workshop designed for TE2026 focused on the decarbonization of international maritime transport. Organized by researchers from the University of Tokyo, the session serves two primary objectives: educating participants about the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the maritime sector, and collecting experimental data to analyze how a decision support system influences teamwork, negotiation, and consensus building. These goals align with Transdisciplinary Engineering topics such as Global Issues, Theoretical Contributions, and Team Working, specifically addressing sustainability, complex sociotechnical systems, and collaborative design environments.

A central feature of the workshop design is the built-in dilemma between cooperation and competition. Participants role-play as shipping companies that must contribute to the shared global objective of achieving “Maritime Net-Zero 2050” while simultaneously striving to outperform competitors in terms of corporate profitability. To reproduce this game-theoretic tension, the simulation incorporates a payoff constraint: even if a company maximizes its own profit, its final evaluation is substantially reduced if the group as a whole fails to meet the Net-Zero target, effectively lowering its reward to the level of an average performer in successful scenarios. Through this mechanism, the exercise exposes the conflict between individual economic rationality and global optimization inherent in Green Transformation. The workshop consists of a 20-minute introductory lecture, a 50minute simulation-based exercise involving vessel ordering, fuel transition strategies, and regulatory negotiations, and a final 20-minute debrief. The session is open to 15–30 participants, and organizers will provide the necessary computing hardware. Expected outcomes include public release of the simulation toolkit and publication of a research paper based on the collected data.

Workshop :
Designing the Unmade: Reorienting Systems of Knowing

This workshop invites participants into a live field of epistemic experimentation, where design is not problem-solving, but perception. Developed through an ongoing, self-funded research initiative from Triki: Together Being, a lifelong learning lab based in India, this session poses a foundational provocation:

What if our systems are not failing because of flawed design, but because they arise from unexamined modes of knowing?

What if we are repeating patterns of thought; dressed up as innovation?

We invite a shift from design as planning to design as attunement, challenging the default assumptions of design by creating conditions for direct engagement with awareness; not as a mental state or technique, but as the ground of knowing itself.

Structured as a 3-hour experience, the session unfolds in four interwoven parts:

● Disrupting the Known: A field-resetting encounter using paradox, metaphor, and silent observation to loosen cognitive rigidity and dissolve habitual meaning-making.

● Designing from Stillness: A tactile, collective practice such as co-creating a space that allows forms to emerge without predetermined objectives or problem-solving intent.

● Designing After the End of Design: A speculative futures exercise asking participants to design something with no function, no problem, drawing from the attention.

● Poetics of Systems: Participants, in small groups, reflect and co-compose insights into a shared expression, evoking systems not as mechanisms, but as patterns of living meaning.

This workshop is a generative pause, a space that asks: What becomes possible when we stop designing from what we know?

This workshop invites participants into a live field of epistemic experimentation, where design is not problem-solving, but perception. Developed through an ongoing, self-funded research initiative from Triki: Together Being, a lifelong learning lab based in India, this session poses a foundational provocation:

What if our systems are not failing because of flawed design, but because they arise from unexamined modes of knowing?

What if we are repeating patterns of thought; dressed up as innovation?

We invite a shift from design as planning to design as attunement, challenging the default assumptions of design by creating conditions for direct engagement with awareness; not as a mental state or technique, but as the ground of knowing itself.

Structured as a 3-hour experience, the session unfolds in four interwoven parts:

● Disrupting the Known: A field-resetting encounter using paradox, metaphor, and silent observation to loosen cognitive rigidity and dissolve habitual meaning-making.

● Designing from Stillness: A tactile, collective practice such as co-creating a space that allows forms to emerge without predetermined objectives or problem-solving intent.

● Designing After the End of Design: A speculative futures exercise asking participants to design something with no function, no problem, drawing from the attention.

● Poetics of Systems: Participants, in small groups, reflect and co-compose insights into a shared expression, evoking systems not as mechanisms, but as patterns of living meaning.

This workshop is a generative pause, a space that asks: What becomes possible when we stop designing from what we know?

This workshop invites participants into a live field of epistemic experimentation, where design is not problem-solving, but perception. Developed through an ongoing, self-funded research initiative from Triki: Together Being, a lifelong learning lab based in India, this session poses a foundational provocation:

What if our systems are not failing because of flawed design, but because they arise from unexamined modes of knowing?

What if we are repeating patterns of thought; dressed up as innovation?

We invite a shift from design as planning to design as attunement, challenging the default assumptions of design by creating conditions for direct engagement with awareness; not as a mental state or technique, but as the ground of knowing itself.

Structured as a 3-hour experience, the session unfolds in four interwoven parts:

● Disrupting the Known: A field-resetting encounter using paradox, metaphor, and silent observation to loosen cognitive rigidity and dissolve habitual meaning-making.

● Designing from Stillness: A tactile, collective practice such as co-creating a space that allows forms to emerge without predetermined objectives or problem-solving intent.

● Designing After the End of Design: A speculative futures exercise asking participants to design something with no function, no problem, drawing from the attention.

● Poetics of Systems: Participants, in small groups, reflect and co-compose insights into a shared expression, evoking systems not as mechanisms, but as patterns of living meaning.

This workshop is a generative pause, a space that asks: What becomes possible when we stop designing from what we know?

This workshop invites participants into a live field of epistemic experimentation, where design is not problem-solving, but perception. Developed through an ongoing, self-funded research initiative from Triki: Together Being, a lifelong learning lab based in India, this session poses a foundational provocation:

What if our systems are not failing because of flawed design, but because they arise from unexamined modes of knowing?

What if we are repeating patterns of thought; dressed up as innovation?

We invite a shift from design as planning to design as attunement, challenging the default assumptions of design by creating conditions for direct engagement with awareness; not as a mental state or technique, but as the ground of knowing itself.

Structured as a 3-hour experience, the session unfolds in four interwoven parts:

● Disrupting the Known: A field-resetting encounter using paradox, metaphor, and silent observation to loosen cognitive rigidity and dissolve habitual meaning-making.

● Designing from Stillness: A tactile, collective practice such as co-creating a space that allows forms to emerge without predetermined objectives or problem-solving intent.

● Designing After the End of Design: A speculative futures exercise asking participants to design something with no function, no problem, drawing from the attention.

● Poetics of Systems: Participants, in small groups, reflect and co-compose insights into a shared expression, evoking systems not as mechanisms, but as patterns of living meaning.

This workshop is a generative pause, a space that asks: What becomes possible when we stop designing from what we know?

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te2026@ncku.edu.tw

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