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Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Interdisciplinary problem solving is going to be one of the most critical skills required of professionals of the future. Solving societal problems in professional and institutional vacuums will be a method of the past. Taubman students should have more exposure to students studying the disciplines that they will be collaborating with in the workforce.
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We have a head start here with our dual degrees and other cross campus collaborations, though these are not enough. We need to diversify the possible connections between architecture, planning and design (urban design is one bridge, but there are others we need to find, such as planners learning more visualization -- the visualization not just of space and design, but also of social science and policy). More collaboration with the big growing programs on campus: engineering has 10k+ students (and huge research budgets) and we barely influence or collaborate with them. Public Health and the School of Information as well.
Increase our participation in multidisciplinary competitions (such as the Hines Competition).
Agree on the need to reinvent ourselves in how we engage the cross, inter, multi, trans and disciplinary itself to address the rapid transformation of society and territory... And we can do so going beyond problem-solving as our only way to engage...