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Does ART sound perhaps ‘a bit much’, requiring so much emphasis on transformation? Or are we perhaps too used to the controlling narrative of Cartesian scholarship, whose stance is distant from life, controlling, simplifying and universalizing? Stability and control undoubtedly have a place in producing the powerful impact of double-blind results. Still it is partial (and indeed a surprising number of scientific studies are never reproduced). Action-oriented transformations research calls us to inquiry/practice as whole persons enriched by reflexivity, which allows for interpersonal resonance, and through that capacity for objectivity. Still one may expect that action research – and transdisciplinarity more generally – remains interpreted by a feudal elite of professors and grant foundations as foreign ideas too risky to take on. The resources of mainstream academia emerge to replicate rather than transform the status quo. Patience and understanding is useful. Yet asymmetrical power makes life difficult for more action-oriented junior scholars who would be the future of the field.