Hi Lois and all,
I was saving this for a longer email as soon as I have time (gasp), but
I'll give a preview.
At the research center I work at HvA, we bring together urban planners and
game designers to do RtD on playful interactions at a "urban scale".
One might argue that both urban planners and game designers are, indeed,
designers. Actually, that was our operating assumption until awhile ago.
But a number of workshops so far seem to suggest that the processes,
methodologies, mindset, expectations etc are so different that practicing
urban planners/architects and game designers need a facilitator to
effectively cooperate on a design challenge. At one point, I had the
impression of observing two dialects in the process of evolving into
different languages.
Does this kind of cooperation count as some sort of "weak
interdisciplinarity" in design? ("weak" isn't a value judgement here, but
is actually the interesting bit)
Is interdisciplinarity in design a continuum where some relationships are
more interdisciplinary than others?
These are just questions I'm pondering, but I haven't had the time yet to
do my due diligence of lit review. Thanks in advance for references,
insights and feedback
Gabriele Ferri, Ph.D.
Design researcher // Play & Civic Media - Amsterdam University of Applied
Sciences
www.gabrieleferri.com
>On 6 February 2017 at 20:02, Lois Frankel <[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Š..This leads to my next question: what are the fields we
> >>designers/design
> >> researchers work with? Not just the fields obviously related to design,
> >> like anthropology, psychology, and business, but other fields that you
> >>may
> >> be working with. Is there a catalogue of the kinds of interdisciplinary
> >> research that involves designers? Are there some fields that designers
> >>work
> >> more frequently with or even more productively with than others?
> >>
> >>
> >> Lois
>
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