Disciplinarities: intra, cross, multi, inter, trans

Update 1 December 2022: You may want to check out a newer version of this figure that I made for my latest book. For some papers I am currently working on, I have taken up my interest in definitions of different types of disciplinarities (see blog post from a couple of years ago). Since that time, I think talking about the need for working interdisciplinary has only increased, but still there seem to be no real incentives for actually making it possible to work genuinely interdisciplinary. This holds when working within an academic setting, and it is even more complicated when trying to bridge academic and artistic disciplines. ...

March 12, 2012 · 3 min · 485 words · ARJ

Multi-, cross- and interdisciplinarity

Update 1 December 2022: You may want to check out a newer version of this figure that I made for my latest book. While reading in The biophysical foundations of human movement, I came across a nice illustration (adapted from Zeigler 1990) of the relationships between multi-, cross- and interdisciplinarity. These terms are often used, and I think it helps to have a visual guide for separating them. ...

July 10, 2009 · 1 min · 162 words · ARJ