"Within dominant contexts primarily rooted in competition and exclusion, like the academy, concepts of rigour can be traced to myths of meritocracy as well as centric and imperial ways of imagining, practicing and evaluating learning and knowledge. In my talk, I will decolonize the concept and practice of rigour by presenting two interconnected frameworks. The first framework will ground learning and knowledge as a subset of relationship and community. The second will elaborate on how relationships and communities, the grounds of our thinking and practice, are diverse, intersectional and interrelated. This situated consideration of diversity and interconnection, cognition and intelligence—call this a world-involved framework— intertwines and aligns epistemic and socio-ecological justice. I will explore how and why diversity, complexity, heterarchy, creativity and more-than-human consideration are integral to establishing transformative relational frameworks of knowledge. Specifically, I will outline how these frameworks are rooted in the principle of interdependence—activated as a transformative methodology and action. I will further this enlivening of interdisciplinarity as cognitively and socially just, profoundly impacting theory and practice within the classroom as well as structural/systemic imagination and action. I will also utilize interdependence to demonstrate how and why generosity, responsiveness and rigour are synergistic versus oppositional modes."