On 22 November, professor Ortwin Renn from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) visited us and gave a lecture to the students on the Methodology of IASS: Transdisciplinary Approaches towards Sustainability – Understanding, Exploration and Facilitation. 

During the lecture, professor Renn gave a brief and comprehensive introduction of IASS, including its research concepts, areas, topics and priorities. He emphasized the importance of methodology study which can enlarge the transformations toward sustainability studies as well as the necessity of conducting researches to find out the complex relationships between technological development, sustainable environmental conditions and the normative requirements of sustainable governance structures and processes. 

The lecture aroused the students’ interests to the subject, and the Q & A session was inspiring.