A somewhat looney treatise on interdisciplinarity. What’s interesting is how he breaks it down into four elements: knowledge, research, education and theory. How can we break it down for our purposes?
http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/PAGEPUB/SMOOTHIE.htm
Here’s a book we should read. Author Joe Moran traces the term and the history of academia in relation to it. It uses English as a model, tracing it from traditional disciplinary segmentation into interdisciplinary approaches of today. How can we transpose that onto graphic design?
Pieces of it are available on Google Books here. Here’s Joe Moran’s blog.
