Dear Gabriele, Johann and all,
As Gabriele speculates Is interdisciplinarity in design a continuum
where some relationships are more interdisciplinary than others? To which
Johann commented, ³I would guess that all design teams operate along a
continuum between "all design² and "all other disciplines". This leads me
to think about how we ask students to differentiate between the terms
inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and
cross-disciplinary. Those distinctions may represent that continuum of
involvement, ranging from multi-disciplinary, where the collaboration
occurs between independent disciplines to trans-disciplinary, where
³disciplinary perspectives and theories are homogenized in with no obvious
separation between the contributing domains² as discussed in the following
article:
Dykes, Thomas H., Rodgers, Paul A., and Michael Smyth. (2009). Towards a
new disciplinary framework for contemporary creative design practice.
CoDesign 5(2), 99-116.
Lois
Lois Frankel PhD
Associate Professor
School of Industrial Design
Carleton University
Ottawa Canada
www.id.carleton.ca
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