Interdisciplinarity: Inside Manchester's 'arts lab'

Design’s Inherent Interdisciplinarity: The Arts in Integrated Curricula

In the November/December 1998 issue of Arts Education Policy Review, I introduced readers to the concept of design-based education and a study that I coauthored for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) on the ways design is being used by American teachers in a variety of subjects. The article recounted the success that teachers have in using the methods of architects, industrial designers,...

Interdisciplinarity in Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Prism: Interdisciplinary Lab for 3d Research in the Arts and Science

Introduction: The work of the PRISM lab draws upon advances in data acquisition techniques, computer modeling and visualization, and rapid prototyping technologies. In addition, the lab has made significant strides in developing 3D “digital libraries” and unique immersive interactive display techniques. PRISM research continues to exploit the unique virtual space of the computer to pre-visualiz...

Interdisciplinarity in economic education

Argument for Interdisciplinarity in economic education: society, as a whole, needs education to know whether the “social products” are good. We may discuss about a lot of social needs or problems. Solving those means the development and implementation of educational programs. Therefore, a program of education, which includes, among other, the economic education, irrespective of its level, can b...

EnGendering Design: Implementing Interdisciplinarity

In addition to the ongoing dearth of women and other minorities in STEM fields, there are increasing reports of sexism in Silicon Valley at all levels. Such gendered biases get written into the technologies designers and developers create. We discuss the value developing interdisciplinary connections and gaining indepth and nuanced understandings of gender theories could have for creating techn...