Composing Worlds: A Portuguese Transdisciplinary Network in Humanities, Health and Well-Being

Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre (), Rodrigo Sá-Nogueira Saraiva, José Calheiros, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Eduardo Paz Barroso, Álvaro Campelo, Pedro Cunha, Ricardo Jorge Pinto, Susana Magalhães, Teresa Toldy and Rui Estrada ()
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Marina Prieto Afonso Lencastre: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Rodrigo Sá-Nogueira Saraiva: Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisbon, Portugal
José Calheiros: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Diogo Guedes Vidal: Centre for Functional Ecology—Science for People & the Planet, TERRA Associate Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Eduardo Paz Barroso: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Álvaro Campelo: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Pedro Cunha: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Ricardo Jorge Pinto: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Susana Magalhães: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Teresa Toldy: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal
Rui Estrada: Instituto de Investigação, Inovação e Desenvolvimento, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Praça Nove de Abril, 349, 4249-004 Porto, Portugal

Societies, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The project “Composing worlds: humanities, health and well-being in the 21st century” aims to build a network of experts in the humanities, social and health sciences, who think about health and well-being in contemporary technological societies. The relevance of this project is based on the growing evidence that most of the problems that the 21st century will face, particularly in the area of health and well-being, relate to the way in which humans connect to the environment, to non-human beings, to different cultures and to technologies. Its main goal is to bring out personal and well-founded ideas on these issues and to reflect on how the humanities may help with difficult environmental, social and technological issues. The methodology used in the first phase of the project consists of an open answer interview, built in a participatory way by the network of experts, and of a thematic analysis of the answers. It is an exploratory research project, which uses thematic analysis to identify the key ideas of each author, and to induce the corresponding main themes. The themes are then organized by semantic correspondence into thematic clusters. The thematic axes are abstracted from these clusters, and they constitute the vectors to be developed in the second phase of the project, by proposing their integration into university curricula, research and intervention of social, cultural and community outreach. Some of these developments are already in place.

Keywords: humanities; health; well-being; transdisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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