Thanks for linking the first DDR* post, I've been at sea w/r/t the concept. ^^; It's interesting because I'm beginning to sense the edges of the limitations of the interdisciplinary model, in the Treble Cliff course. That is, we're mostly being talked at, still, five sessions in, and I don't think enough (any) time is being spent on ensuring that everyone in the room is still on the same page and picking up on the same points. I know I'm doing a lot of code-switching (business vs IT/engineering vs academic theory vs music fandom); I don't know if everyone else is. That's the problem with it, it's not enough to have a couple of people from each discipline in the same room. You have to have a couple of people from each discipline with a cross-disciplinary mindset in the room. Which means at the least being familiar with more than one discipline (out of the 5-6 represented) - it's like speaking foreign languages. The practical problem is that this thing could easily be a 9-to-5 seminar, every day of the week, for a month, and not cover all the stakeholders and viewpoints there are to cover.

On the bright side there are definitely non-academics out there who are paid to think, I've now met lots of them. XD; Normally it is a mission-based mode: "I come to you with a problem, you think up a solution (or teach me how to think up a solution) that makes me money." But then patterns emerge, and side avenues present themselves for investigation.

Would what I'm trying to do with this class count as DDR?

* this acronym means "Dance Dance Revolution" to me, but this is by no means a bad mental association