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(Long post). Thank you all for commenting on this thread. So far in the online & offline comments about interdisciplinarity, people mention different kinds of interdisciplinary activities: funded research projects; participatory research projects; and joint authoring of publications. The design disciplines addressed include: architecture (as a separate discipline), communication, graphic, ceramics, fashion, furniture, games, interaction, interior, industrial, new media, textile, urban planning. The disciplines and themes mentioned in interdisciplinary relationships include: architecture, anthropology, art history, biology, computer science, cognitive science, engineering (computing systems, mechanical, electrical, chemical, electronics, software, production textile construction biomedical), fine art, indigenous studies, information science, music, nursing, psychology, rhetoric, sociology. Note that some people see themselves as interdisciplinary. And a number of people mentioned skills that designers or interdisciplinary teams need or have: knowledge of smart materials & liquids /molecular physics of engineering polymers (made smart), disassembly, recycling,healthcare/ therapy, business & small venture capital investment, people management, science of money & efficiency capitalization, real estate/ commercial buildings infrastructures design (redesign of systems), communication, negotiation, scientific reasoning, business systems analysis, and philosophy. Ken Friedmanıs 2012 argument that ³Today, professional design practice involves advanced multidisciplinary knowledge that presupposes interdisciplinary collaboration and a fundamental change in design education² is reflected in the range of disciplines and research/project configurations that a very small number of people on this list have presented. This is both interesting and daunting for me as a design educator working within an industrial design curriculum grounded in past practice. For more of Kenıs perspective on the domains that are important to design today, see Friedman, Ken. (2012). Models of Design: Envisioning a Future Design Education. Visible Language 46 (1-2), 135-153. In addition, contributors were also kind enough to suggest other readings too: Abbott, Andrew. (1999). Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. London: The University of Chicago Press. Friedman, Ken. (2005). Six Economies for Design Research. Keynote Speech. Founding Conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research. November 1-4. 2005. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, College of Design, Yunlin, Taiwan. Frodeman, Robert (Ed). (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. New York: Oxford University Press. Klein, Julie Thompson. (2010). Creating Interdisciplinary Campus cultures: A Model for Strength and Sustainability. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons. Klein, Julie Thompson. (1990). Interdisciplinarity: History and Practice. Detroit:Wayne State University Press. Latucca, Lisa R. (2001). Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Love, Terrence. (2002). Constructing a Coherent Cross-disciplinary body of theory about designing and designs: some philosophical issues. Design Studies 23(3), 345361. Mamykina, L., Candy, L., & Ernest, E. (2002). Collaborative Creativity. Communications of the ACM, 45(10), 96-99. Monroe, Jonathan (Ed). (2002). Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Moran, Joe. (2002) Interdisciplinarity. London: Routledge. Pyenson, Lewis. (1997). Disciplines and the Interdisciplinarity in the New Century. Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies Press. Repko, Allen F. (2008). Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory. Thousand Oaks California: Sage Publications. Sillitoe, P. (2004). Interdisciplinary experiences: working with indigenous knowledge in development. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29(1), 6-23. Sless, D. (1992). What is information design? In R. Penman & Sless D. (Ed.) Designing Information For People. (1-16). Canberra: Communication Research Press. Lois Lois Frankel PhD Associate Professor School of Industrial Design Carleton University Ottawa Canada www.id.carleton.ca > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------