Hi Mike,
You can also check out Co-Design - which is more likely to specifically target the collaborative aspects of design.
This is one of my areas of work - and so I'm sending along some references - you should also check out Renata Fruchter (stanford), wendy newstetter (georgia tech), alexandra coso (papers from the ASEE conference - www.asee.org has a search engine for conference papers). I'm happy to send pdf's of papers, too.
Adams, R.S., Daly, S., Mann, L.L., and Dall’Alba, G. (2011). “Being a professional: Three lenses on design thinking, acting, and being.” Design Studies, 32, pp.598-607. [one of the lenses is cross-disciplinary - which i use as an umbrella term for multi/inter/trans]
Adams, R.S., Mann, L., Jordan, S., and Daly, S. (2009). “Exploring the boundaries: language, roles, and structures in cross-disciplinary design teams.” In J. McDonnell and P. Lloyd (eds), About Designing: Analysing Design Meetings (Chapter 19). London: Taylor and Francis Group. [illustrates shifts in moving from multi to interdisciplinary approaches, often triggered by a team member bringing up human/user-centered issues]
Adams, R., Forin, T., Srinivasan, S. and Mann, L.L. (2010). “Cross-disciplinary practice in engineering contexts – a developmental phenomenographical perspective.” In K. Gomez, L. Lyons and J. Radinsky (Eds.), Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Volume 1, (pp. 1166-1173). Chicago, IL: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Adams, R.S., Mann, L., Forin, T., and Jordan, S. (2009). “Cross-disciplinary practice in engineering contexts.” In N. Bergendahl, M. Grimheden, L. Leifer, P. Skogstad, and U. Lindemann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED’09), Stanford University. Volume 9: Human Behavior in Design (pp. 343-355). Glasgow: The Design Society.
Robin Adams
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