# Interdisciplinarity **Concept class:** Research and educational method ## Definition **Interdisciplinarity** brings methods, evidence, vocabularies, and problem frames from more than one discipline into a shared inquiry. Strong interdisciplinary work does more than place specialists beside one another: it makes the translation layer, common problem, incompatible assumptions, and integration method explicit. ## Relationships - **historical problem:** [[wiki/Two Cultures|Two Cultures]] and [[wiki/C. P. Snow|C. P. Snow]]. - **institutional practice:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]] and [[wiki/Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science|Beyond Center]]. - **methodological route:** [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [National Academies — Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research](https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11153/facilitating-interdisciplinary-research) - [NSF — Learn About Convergence Research](https://www.nsf.gov/funding/learn/research-types/learn-about-convergence-research)