Comments on: More Than One Degree https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/04/23/more-than-one-degree/ Clarify Today, Design Tomorrow Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 By: Julian https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/04/23/more-than-one-degree/#comment-478 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:38 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=3263#comment-478 In reply to fabien.

You’re right — the laws were instinctive and reactions in a way. Continuing the discussion here (as elsewhere, between many people over time), it is likely not the degrees themselves, or their movement, within the same problem space and discipline from apprentice, journeyman, expert, but ways of seeing the world and developing new kinds of filters. Like — new ways of making knowledge and accepting different “frameworks” or epistemes in order to move beyond the established, bounded, disciplined knowledge. Which, I don’t know — can come from pushing beyond the same sets of questions and problems. I think this idea of continuing through school without coming around to ask truly different questions, with different senses of what “counts” as knowledge, and what “counts” as ways-of-doing. You know?

]]> By: fabien https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/04/23/more-than-one-degree/#comment-477 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:45:48 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=3263#comment-477 I have a lot of sympathy for your critique of a certain approach to interdisciplinarity. However, the description of your laws made me think back on Bill Cockayne’s discussion at lift08 on the 4 main roles people exhibit in the process of innovation. The specialist with depth in one particular discipline does not necessarily play the part of the new blue collar. I am actually wondering if adding breadth to gain the ability to discuss across disciplines does not lead, in some cases, to incompetence; you know some sort of horizontal Peter Principle.

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