Miguel Briceño

Polycontextural Transdisciplinarity: a New Resource for Research in Complex Systems Miguel Briceño

A couple of decades ago natural phenomena began to be approached from a comprehensive and transdisciplinary point of view, as it was understood that living beings and their environments are not linear but complex. There is no doubt that this perspective of visualizing complexity and working inter- and transdisciplinarily has to be applied. It is precisely this liberation from the dictates of mono-contextural logic what paves the way to an observation of complexity, in which one or the other language is used to model the states of things, such as the epistemological problems of molecular biology or the social systems. The new knowledge production model proposed here to face the challenge of such complexity is that of transdisciplinarity, which shall be made up of theoretical structures, research methods and practical procedures that cannot be found in the current disciplinary or interdisciplinary maps.