At the 3rd ICMRSI Keynote Speaker Session, Professor Dr. Dieter Bögenhold from Klagenfurt University, Austria delivered a speech about Understanding Multidisciplinarity and Sustainability Needs. The participants were all excited to learn new insights from Professor Dr. Dieter Bögenhold and are welcomed to share their insight or ask question in this forum. There were some questions and comments from the participants to Professor Dr. Dieter Bögenhold:
Q1) Choirul Anwar --> To maintain a green climate for sustainability, some of the entities think that it is costly. How does the way to convince them to take care not only to the profit but also to take care of people and planet.
A: The answer is easy and already given so often: (1.) The social profit for the planet and the people living on it is much higher when simply ignoring the challenges of our times, at least in a medium and long perspective. We do not have any alternative other than respecting the imperative to arrive at concrete actions and to come up with concrete plans. (2.) Many instruments and implementations do not only cost money, but they can also serve as green growth engines by creating new markets and economic opportunities that serve for the economy and society.
Q2) Suyadi --> How to respond to multi-disciplinary knowledge in the future regarding human resource management and economics !
A: We have to lear and accept that mono-disciplinary approaches are too autistic. All items are embedded into chains of causes and effects. Therefore the integration of multidisciplinary iinstruments and views is highly necessary.
Q3) Ronina Tayuan --> What best practices can you recommend on how the chosen SDGs of a particular College or University be implemented? Is it necessary that a chosen SDG must be included in a course curriculum to prove its validity and significance?
A: I am not too optimistic that such implementation will help a lot. However, starting to think about such tasks may foster the need of thinking in those relations and to accept the existence of SDGs
Q4) Waraney Punuh - Satya Wacana Christian University - Indonesia --> Thanks, Prof. Bogenhold. I'm very interested in your topic. However, I have one question: How do you perceive the integration of diverse academic disciplines as essential for effectively addressing contemporary sustainability challenges, particularly considering the significant differences and difficulties in harmonizing intersections between sciences?
A: Not sure if I understand the questions entirely. The intention of my talk was to argue that the world society and the world economy must be viewed as complex systems of reciprocal interactions. This implies acknowledging the complexities and the need for thinking in interdisciplinary relations and trying to link causes and effects in relations that continuously form anew. The consequence is the task to think in terms of interlaced spheres and highlights the necessity to identify and understand the limits of mono-disciplinary approaches. If everything affects everything, no single academic take in the classic nature of the division of specific academic domains and their limited competencies can satisfy any more.
On the contrary, contemporaries must increasingly acknowledge “Neglected Links” in the economy, society, and social sciences, especially in economics, sociology, psychology, and history, to demonstrate the complexities of the social and physical world, the interdependencies of international cooperation and the fragility and vulnerability of sustainability and, of course, the limitations of our intellectual order of thought often ignore the need for thinking out of the box.
Q5) Reni Dian OctavianI --> Hi Prof., I’d like to ask, How can academic institutions and education change to foster the development of multidisciplinary knowledge and perspectives required to tackle challenging sustainability issues using integrated social science methods?
A: This is a question of curricula, however, it is also a question of education and awareness. On the other hand, I would say that we have a chicken-egg problem where everything is related to each other.
Q6) darwin lie --> thank You Prof. question: Science collaboration is one of the needs of contemporary education, what is an obstacle if universities carry out this collaboration.
A: I cannot agree more. To speak with Humboldt; teaching should follow research and not the other way around.
The Audience can continue the discussion in this forum. Enjoy the discussion, and see you at the upcoming conference at https://bit.ly/RSF-UpcomingConference
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