However, with regard to “interdisciplinarity” and “transdisciplinarity” divergence, I would like to add some piece of information which lacks in your post. Very nice web site and very interesting your research and your way to present it. After all, many of the interesting things I come across are based on the “friction” I encounter when working between the different disciplines. I am not sure I will ever get to transdisciplinarity, and I am not even sure that that would be an exciting goal to work for either. This could mean that I have not been able to develop my ideas into a truly interdisciplinary approach, yet. Then I feel like a music researcher when talking to technologists, and as a technologist when talking to music people.
However, I often feel that I have to choose an approach when presenting my work for different (disciplinary) groups. I do most certainly integrate knowledge and methods from different disciplines (mainly music, informatics, psychology, movement science), and try to create a holistic perspective based on this. In her paper, Stember argues that many people believe they work interdisciplinary, while in fact, it is more common to work multidisciplinary.įor myself, I think I work on the edge between multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.
#Onyer vs inyra full#
I would imagine that when/if full integration of disciplines occurs, you are back to a single discipline again, so I have added that to the figure as well. That is why I have drawn the centre circles so that they almost overlap, but not entirely. I am still not entirely sure that I understand the difference between interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, but I guess that the latter is one more step towards full integration. Transdisciplinary: creating a unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the disciplinary perspectives.īased on this, I have added two elements (inter and trans) to my former sketch of the different disciplinarities (based initially on Zeigler (1990)):.Interdisciplinary: integrating knowledge and methods from different disciplines, using a real synthesis of approaches.Multidisciplinary: people from different disciplines working together, each drawing on their disciplinary knowledge.Crossdisciplinary: viewing one discipline from the perspective of another.
Intradisciplinary: working within a single discipline.There she offers the following overview of different levels of disciplinarity (my summary of her points): Trying to find a proper definition of what this means, I came across Marilyn Stember’s 1990 paper Advancing the social sciences through the interdisciplinary enterprise. In the middle of all of this, I hear the word transdisciplinarity more and more frequently. This holds when working within an academic setting, and it is even more complicated when trying to bridge academic and artistic disciplines. Since that time, I think talking about the need for working interdisciplinary has only increased, but still there seem to be no real incentives for actually making it possible to work genuinely interdisciplinary. For some papers I am currently working on, I have taken up my interest in definitions of different types of disciplinarities (see blog post from a couple of years ago).
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