Taking the Landscape into Conversations: A Way to Engage (with) Diverse Knowledges and Values

Research and practice in sustainability transformations often manifest diverging ideas on the nature and origin of sustainability problem(s), their solutions and the division of roles and responsibilities to address these problems. This diversityDiversity is underpinned by a plurality of values, forms of knowledge and worldviews. Moreover, these diverging ideas are dynamic, both in interaction with each other and with the sustainability challenges they are addressing. Providing room for these diverse ideas and bringing them into conversation has proven challenging. Based on research revolving around wildfire prevention in the Netherlands, in this chapter we explore a relatively unknown methodology to engage with such diversity: the transdisciplinary walkshop. A transdisciplinary walkshop combines the act of walking and being at the site where there is a sustainability challenge with a workshop in which multiple stakeholders, including researchers, participate. We reflect on ways in which transdisciplinary walkshops may allow diversity to become explicit and to engage with it.