- The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity
- Editorial Board
- Preface
- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
- Contributors
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity: An Introduction to the 2nd Edition
- Knowledge Formations: An Analytic Framework
- Typologies of Interdisciplinarity: The Boundary Work of Definition
- The Need for Disciplines in the Modern Research University
- Interdisciplinary Cases and Disciplinary Knowledge: Epistemic Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research
- The Military-Industrial Route to Interdisciplinarity
- Physical Sciences
- Interdisciplinarity and the Earth Sciences: Transcending Limitations of the Knowledge Paradigm
- Interdisciplinarity in the Biological Sciences
- Mathematics and Root Interdisciplinarity: Historical Perspectives
- Integrating the Social Sciences: Area Studies, Quantitative Methods, and Problem-Oriented Research
- Interdisciplinary Arts
- Interdisciplining Humanities: A Historical Overview
- Digital Humanities: The Role of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Information Age
- A Field of Its Own: The Emergence of Science and Technology Studies
- Cognitive Science
- Media and Communication
- Situating Feminist Studies
- Humane Smart Cities
- Interdisciplinarity in Ethics
- An Ethics of Interdisciplinary Research
- Interdisciplinary Learning: A Cognitive-Epistemological Foundation
- Comparing Methods for Cross-Disciplinary Research
- Systems Thinking
- Innovation, Interdisciplinarity, and Creative Destruction
- Addressing Wicked Problems through Transdisciplinary Research
- Managing Consensus in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Teams: Tasks and Expertise
- Understanding Cross-Disciplinary Team-Based Research: Concepts and Conceptual Models from the Science of Team Science
- The Policy Sciences as a Transdisciplinary Approach for Policy Studies
- Sustainability Sciences: Political and Epistemological Approaches
- Religious Studies and Religious Practice
- Interdisciplinarity in the Fields of Law, Justice, and Criminology
- Health Research, Practice, and Education
- New Public Service through Coproduction
- Information Research on Interdisciplinarity
- Computation and Simulation
- Taming Wickedness by Interdisciplinary Design
- Interdisciplinarity and the Institutional Context of Knowledge in the American Research University
- Peer Review, Interdisciplinarity, and Serendipity
- Interdisciplinarity in Research Evaluation
- The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look inside Public Research Funding Agencies
- Toward a New Discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences
- Administering Interdisciplinary Programs
- Interdisciplinarity and the Student Voice
- Interdisciplinary Pedagogies in Higher Education
- Doctoral Student and Early Career Academic Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity
- Facilitating Interdisciplinary Scholars
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The word “design” is most frequently employed to refer to the action of planning and making (designing something), and to describe the end result or artifact of this action (a design). Designers often refer to their activity as problem-solving and view their work as a response to opportunities and needs in the market identified by corporations, entrepreneurs, consumers, governments, and nonprofit organizations. Design practice tackles problems that can range from the creation of such small things as business cards to the planning of entire urban systems. Horst Rittel argues that the problems design handles are wicked (as well as incorrigible and ill-behaved) and new methodologies are required to tame them. The sheer wickedness and complexity of these issues warrants engagement with other disciplines. This chapter suggests that transdisciplinarity is one of the most promising strategies for dealing with and taming the wicked, ill-behaved, and incorrigible problems of design.
Keywords: wicked problem, transdisciplinary design, design studies, design education, design futuring
Prasad Boradkar is a professor in industrial design at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe. He is the director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory where faculty and students from design, business, sustainability, and engineering partner with corporations to develop socially and environmentally sustainable product concepts. He also serves as the codirector of the Biomimicry Center at ASU, an organization dedicated to the exploration of biologically inspired solutions to problems of sustainability. Prasad is the author of Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects(2010).
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- The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity
- Editorial Board
- Preface
- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
- Contributors
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity: An Introduction to the 2nd Edition
- Knowledge Formations: An Analytic Framework
- Typologies of Interdisciplinarity: The Boundary Work of Definition
- The Need for Disciplines in the Modern Research University
- Interdisciplinary Cases and Disciplinary Knowledge: Epistemic Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research
- The Military-Industrial Route to Interdisciplinarity
- Physical Sciences
- Interdisciplinarity and the Earth Sciences: Transcending Limitations of the Knowledge Paradigm
- Interdisciplinarity in the Biological Sciences
- Mathematics and Root Interdisciplinarity: Historical Perspectives
- Integrating the Social Sciences: Area Studies, Quantitative Methods, and Problem-Oriented Research
- Interdisciplinary Arts
- Interdisciplining Humanities: A Historical Overview
- Digital Humanities: The Role of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Information Age
- A Field of Its Own: The Emergence of Science and Technology Studies
- Cognitive Science
- Media and Communication
- Situating Feminist Studies
- Humane Smart Cities
- Interdisciplinarity in Ethics
- An Ethics of Interdisciplinary Research
- Interdisciplinary Learning: A Cognitive-Epistemological Foundation
- Comparing Methods for Cross-Disciplinary Research
- Systems Thinking
- Innovation, Interdisciplinarity, and Creative Destruction
- Addressing Wicked Problems through Transdisciplinary Research
- Managing Consensus in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Teams: Tasks and Expertise
- Understanding Cross-Disciplinary Team-Based Research: Concepts and Conceptual Models from the Science of Team Science
- The Policy Sciences as a Transdisciplinary Approach for Policy Studies
- Sustainability Sciences: Political and Epistemological Approaches
- Religious Studies and Religious Practice
- Interdisciplinarity in the Fields of Law, Justice, and Criminology
- Health Research, Practice, and Education
- New Public Service through Coproduction
- Information Research on Interdisciplinarity
- Computation and Simulation
- Taming Wickedness by Interdisciplinary Design
- Interdisciplinarity and the Institutional Context of Knowledge in the American Research University
- Peer Review, Interdisciplinarity, and Serendipity
- Interdisciplinarity in Research Evaluation
- The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look inside Public Research Funding Agencies
- Toward a New Discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences
- Administering Interdisciplinary Programs
- Interdisciplinarity and the Student Voice
- Interdisciplinary Pedagogies in Higher Education
- Doctoral Student and Early Career Academic Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity
- Facilitating Interdisciplinary Scholars
- Index