A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY - OPPORTUNITIES FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION
Paper in proceeding, 2016

Ambitions about deep interdisciplinary education may face barriers. However, interaction between student groups does not have to be difficult. We report on a collaboration including more than 200 students from different subject areas, at different curricular stages in a multidisciplinary concept workshop. By engaging with an external event we avoided some of the challenges involved in aligning agendas, while remaining true to the ambitions of giving students Concrete Experience and opportunity to Reflect in and on actions, balancing the ambitions of raising awareness of the relation between subjects and engaging students in collaborating in problem solving based on skills and knowledge from their respective discipline. Our results show how collaborating with industry can help bridge some of the challenges with internal collaboration between students from different disciplines.

Author

Håkan Burden

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers)

Viktor Hjort af Ornäs

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Design Education: Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinary

552-557

Subject Categories

Educational Sciences

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10/8/2017