GoodWork Paper 16: Building Bridges Across Disciplines: Organizational and Individual Qualities of Exemplary Interdisciplinary Work (PDF)
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Author(s): Veronica Boix Mansilla, Dan Dillon, Kaley Middlebrooks
Editor(s): Jeff Solomon, Series Editor
Media: PDF
Description: This paper examines institutional and intellectual dimensions of interdisciplinary work as described by innovators in five exemplary organizations. These institutions include the Santa Fe Institute and the Arts and Science Laboratory in New Mexico, the MIT Media Laboratory and the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology in the Boston-Cambridge area, and the Research in Experimental Designs group at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California. Examined are the organizational qualities that support and hinder interdisciplinary work; the pros and cons of particular types of institutional affiliations (e.g., permanent research staff in a centralized physical location versus networks of researchers coming together temporarily); the strengths and limitations of research problem definitions (e.g., institutions that discover innovative problems and their solutions concurrently versus those who offer new solutions to old problems). This paper also explores the ways in which researchers organize their work to combine areas of expertise effectively (e.g., through collaborations and through the development of “hybrid” researchers) and concludes by suggesting promising lines of future research.
Author(s): Veronica Boix Mansilla, Dan Dillon, Kaley Middlebrooks
Editor(s): Jeff Solomon, Series Editor
Media: PDF
Description: This paper examines institutional and intellectual dimensions of interdisciplinary work as described by innovators in five exemplary organizations. These institutions include the Santa Fe Institute and the Arts and Science Laboratory in New Mexico, the MIT Media Laboratory and the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology in the Boston-Cambridge area, and the Research in Experimental Designs group at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California. Examined are the organizational qualities that support and hinder interdisciplinary work; the pros and cons of particular types of institutional affiliations (e.g., permanent research staff in a centralized physical location versus networks of researchers coming together temporarily); the strengths and limitations of research problem definitions (e.g., institutions that discover innovative problems and their solutions concurrently versus those who offer new solutions to old problems). This paper also explores the ways in which researchers organize their work to combine areas of expertise effectively (e.g., through collaborations and through the development of “hybrid” researchers) and concludes by suggesting promising lines of future research.
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