2023/12/01 by Christian A. Mahringer, Franziska Baessler, Martin Fungisai Gerchen +3 · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration #Innovation, Technology, and Society
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108508
openalex publication_date 2023/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
The opportunity to see and work beyond the overarching boundaries of specific disciplines has provided us with a path of immense personal development and discovery.Interdisciplinary projects offer the chance to reflect on own scientific procedures, further develop the own disciplinary understanding, and become aware of the borders of the own discipline.It is our experience that the encounter with other scholars and subjects does indeed inevitably change one’s own view of the own discipline.In the narratives of the others, the world of the other, the (subject-) cultural, social, situational realities become visible, and in this way, we can communicate empathically, develop understanding in interdisciplinary conversation, and deal with the missing knowledge of our own subject and the other subjects.