ABSTRACT
The cultivation of character is important for interdisciplinary work, not least dispositions such as humility, honesty, openness, trust, and a willingness to listen and at least provisionally and temporarily give the benefit of the doubt' to other voices and positions. A necessary element in transdisciplinary exploration is a willingness of participant-pioneers to follow Coleridge's advice and for the purposes of producing a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination' to engage in that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith'. As Felt, point out in a recent article on transdisciplinarity and sustainability, there is often an unrecognised and insufficiently acknowledged attention to place and locale in the literature. It is one thing to think beyond one's discipline and become intellectually curious and promiscuous about other far-related fields of inquiry. It is quite another to practice transdisciplinarity on an ongoing basis.
