Cristina dalla Torre and Gaia D’Inzeo

How do we collaborate when the challenges we face are shaped by different forms of knowledge, power, and responsibility? Practitioners, policymakers and researchers often work side by side, yet not always aligned. Transdisciplinary collaboration seeks to connect these worlds, but it also reveals deep tensions.

This workshop is an invitation to explore these dynamics from within, it’s a space to rethink how we work together, to imagine otherwise, and to learn through friction.

Through role-play and collective negotiation, participants experience how collaboration is shaped by institutional constraints, funding logics, and uneven power relations.

About

Cristina Dalla Torre is Post-Doc Researcher at the institute for Regional Development of Eurac Research and in the past two years has coordinated the TRANSACTIONABLE project. She researches on social innovation processes, especially on the way communities govern goods collectively, and on social economy to address vulnerabilities in rural areas. She is particularly attentive to the involvement of stakeholder in the production of knowledge, to enable its usability to address complex challenges.

Gaia D’Inzeo holds a degree in Eco-Social Design and is currently a trainee researcher at Eurac Research, where she contributes to the TRANSACTIONABLE project by translating research outputs into actionable tools that support research processes. Her research interests focus on social innovation, with a particular emphasis on collaborative practices.