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Hi Sue and others. My work has been considered interdisciplinary for decades; I've also taught in interdisciplinary departments. And yet there are times I don't understand what's going on here, oddly - for example when you ask Does anyone know of projects which have been successful in their approach to interdisciplinarity?? Are there any studies which have developed some kind of common thesaurus, for example? Has anyone developed any Golden Rules? - I have no idea whatsoever about what you're talking about (like the doubling confusion here!). What projects "approach" interdisciplinarity? If I'm working, say, on a film for a Heiner Muller play and w/ actors and sound and space/performance, so it is. There's no "approach." I can't even imagine what a "Rule" would look like, golden or otherwise. The statement for me deeply doesn't make sense. Its presupposition is that there is _something_ called interdisciplinarity and that one requires an _approach_ to this something, when nothing, at least as far as I'm concerned, would be farther from the truth. If I'm working, say, with Foofwa (dance), and I'm doing 3-D animation + pump organ/text/performance - then that's what I'm doing. I have no idea how or why it (whatever "it" is) could be an "it"... - Alan http://www.asondheim.org/ nettext at http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ WVU 2004 projects: http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/ partial backup at http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim Trace projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Books: Vel (Blazevox) The Wayward (Vox) Sophia (Writers Forum) .echo (Alt-X)