What do you do?" Many companies now boast about doing interdisciplinary work a sign that things are changing.
The next thing that the interdisciplinary scientist has to learn is how to overcome the language problem.
The foundation financed, among other things, an auditorium, the interdisciplinary Beckman Institute and research on the causes of photochemical smog.
And results often are not shared across disciplines.To make things more efficient and interdisciplinary, ResearchGate wants to help the academic world to grow more connective tissue, as Ijad Madisch, one of the firm's founders, puts it.
"Tomorrow's great leaders will be interdisciplinary actors, combining an understanding of things technical and scientific with skills we identify with the humanities.
You are familiar with producers of cinema, but now consider the interdisciplinary work of not just connecting things but also connecting honestly to people.
The Shape of Things, a project by interdisciplinary artists Kayla Mattes and Justin Seibert, consists of a website with a 24-question quiz that generates unique shapes based on participants' answers.
"Yes, I am interdisciplinary, and yes, I like to bend things, genres included".
She would like to offer more free public programming and has engaged Jens Hoffmann, formerly the director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, to oversee (among other things) what she calls "holistic" interdisciplinary programs and public discussions related to exhibitions.
Interdisciplinary research can be rewarding, but what things should you consider before starting out?
