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Jacques, On 25 June 2012 11:29, Jacques Giard <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What is needed is a > mindfulness that the discipline is a means to an end, nothing more. The > end is what matters. I'm not sure whether the Thomas Jefferson quote about periodic revolution, at least once every 20 years, being "a medicine necessary for the sound health of government" is apocryphal but all sorts of institutions do tend to become about the institution rather than the reason for the institution. Sometimes that's ossification, sometimes it's that the reason has changed. As much as the definition of a discipline may help people focus, it can also keep them focused in the wrong place. There are a lot of problems with a wide application of a radical interdisciplinarity but you're right about the pitfalls of disciplinarity. Gunnar ---------- Gunnar Swanson East Carolina University graphic design program http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville NC 27858 USA [log in to unmask] +1 252 258 7006 http://www.gunnarswanson.com