Design Impact Transition (DIT) platform

The Design Impact Transition (DIT) Platform at Erasmus University Rotterdam aims to empower radically new ways to do research, education and engagement for a just and sustainable future. As a platform, we bring together academics, students, non-academic staff and external stakeholders around complex and persistent societal challenges. We aim to build a strong and engaged community and a collaborative, experimental and design-based culture of transdisciplinarity. Our team consists of dedicated Erasmians that work on building the DIT platform and transforming the university from the ground up. DIT works on three core domains: transformative research, transformative education and transformative engagement for impact, taking on the following roles: Challenging and confronting existing disciplines and dogmas Signaling and showing another way of working in academia Attracting and connecting people across and beyond the academic world Facilitating and supporting everyone who wants to...