ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the tensions around the ‘I’ and ‘we’ paradox and how they emerged within researcher collaborative research project. It examines how this tension shapes and is shaped by the wickedity of the problem, the level of self-organization and adaptation in our individual scholarship and the degree of heterogeneity of the epistemic living spaces of the various constellations and combinations of the ‘we’ of team work. Each researcher comes to the collaborative process with a creative ‘mind of one’s own’ and valuable experiences of exercising that mind in order to realize a research agenda. Interdisciplinarity in collaborative research has potential to be a dialogue, enabling a flow between a mind of one’s own and collective coherence. In generative dialogue, members of a research team stay engaged with high levels of tension and hence open up windows onto new insight, showing the paradox in a new light and holding potential for deep collective coherence.
