Overview
In the project «Cocreation Toolbox for Interdisciplinarity» we are investigating interdisciplinary team projects and generating knowledge bases about interdisciplinary collaboration in practice. We interview interdisciplinary mixed teams of HSLU students and commercial companies.
Multi-perspective approaches and the collaboration between different disciplines are often cited as the key to sustainable development and for the digital transformation. All too often, however, ambitious and well-founded initiatives fail to bring together different bodies of knowledge, views and approaches.
In the Bachelor's programme «Digital Ideation», we have been cultivating and developing project-based collaboration in teams composed of computer science and design students since 2016. Our experience with this provides us with a wide range of practices and tacit knowledge, which are documented and explored in this project. In addition, we include extended courses offered by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well as corporate teams from the fields of innovation, new technologies and design, namely teams from the project partner Creaholic AG.
We want to find out how members of different disciplines communicate with each other and which methods of cooperation they agree on. We will explore the success factors that facilitate this collaboration and the obstacles that teams face in doing so. We are examining existing workshop- and facilitation formats for teams and developing them further with regard to interdisciplinary constellations.
The goal of the project is to gather insights from applied work in interdisciplinary team projects. We prepare these for future interdisciplinary initiatives and follow-up projects in the form of a toolbox usable for third parties
