#7 SPOTLIGHTS – Let’s talk: Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development / Lagos w Taibat Lawanson

In Lagos, Nigeria, the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development holds yearlong experience and practice of building, strengthening and maintaining a community of collaborators on transdisciplinary projects for housing and sustainable development. To combat environmental hazards, housing issues and the most pressuring challenges of local communities, the Centre developed a transdisciplinary working culture that is fundamentally decolonial, enables and fosters local knowledge holders as experts and that integrates indigenous knowledge into political and academic practice. If you want to get inspired by further approaches that support Collaborative and Transdisciplinary Research around the world, check out the full recorded program of the SPOTLIGHTS -Let’s talk online series. SPOTLIGHTS brings global perspectives to PartWiss 2026 – the largest conference in Germany on participation in science. The SPOTLIGHTS program highlights people, institutions, and support structures making collaborative research possible. Together, we explore how transdisciplinarity, participation, and public engagement are embedded in science systems worldwide. The program consists of this series of online talks and of an exploratory study on support structures worldwide. More info can be found here: http://www.spotlights-partwiss.de/ SPOTLIGHTS is organized by the Laboratory for Transdisciplinary Research (TD-Lab) of the Berlin University Alliance and Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. Partners: Gesellschaft für transdisziplinäre und partizipative Forschung (GTPF), Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research (ITD) Co-funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. https://www.partizipation-wissenschaf... https://www.berlin-university-allianc... https://www.stifterverband.org/english https://www.gtpf.science/ https://itd-alliance.org/