ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to cope with challenges arising when research activities are carried out within an interdisciplinary group. This may result in isolating subgroups of people with similar backgrounds or misunderstanding the goal to be achieved by the project as a whole. An explicit methodology shared across disciplines may help in overcoming such a problem. The chapter argues that such a methodology needs to be capable of dealing with reflexivity. Therefore, the methodology also becomes an interdisciplinary problem. It proposes that the operations of deconstruction and reconstruction shall map the phenomena into three layers: a physical layer composed by material things and connections, an informational layer related to symbolic classifications, relations and exchanges, and a regulatory layer involving decision-making procedures, rules and relations. In the reconstructed form, the interactions occur between elements of the same layer and across different layers. The phenomena are then constituted of these layers.
