ABSTRACT
An interdisciplinary approach in the design field does not consist of just having a person from the social sciences lecturing to designers. This was tried in architectural schools during the late 1960s with mediocre results at best. Knowledge gained by research has to be made accessible and relevant to design, and even more important, it requires that the right questions are posed in the first place. There is a research side to an interdisciplinary approach and there is also a design side. This was well understood in the early 1970s by the emerging discipline of Environmental Design and Research, as it can be seen in the yearly proceedings of the Environmental Design and Research Association since 1970.
