Transdisciplinarity in Practice Capturing and Experiencing Knowledge across Disciplinary Boundaries

Introduction

Part I

Chapter I. Transdisciplinarity

Chapter II. Knowledge(ing): What Lies Behind the Ways We Practice and Value Knowledge?

Chapter III. Problematising Practices of Knowledging

Part II

Chapter IV. The Arts Have a Seriousness Problem

Chapter V. Knowledge Happens: But What’s Happening?

Chapter VI. Detaching from Disciplinary Thinking to Witness Knowledging in Action

Chapter VII. Capturing Acts of Knowledging

Conclusion by Way of Thinking Forward

Biography

Experience Bryon, PhD, is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Performance and a Senior Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. She previously led the MA/MFA Performance Practice as Research at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for over a decade. With a wide-ranging background in the performing arts—including work as a performer, choreographer, director, and artistic director of a transdisciplinary performance company—Bryon’s research advances dynamic exchanges between performance and the sciences, enabling the emergence of new forms of knowledge. She is the pioneer of Integrative Performance Practice, an approach taught internationally that bridges artistic practice and scientific inquiry. Her publications include Performing Interdisciplinarity: Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic (Routledge, 2019), Embodied Cognition: Acting and Performance Training (Routledge, 2017), and Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer (Routledge, 2014).

“Experience Bryon has written a canonical contribution in epistemology, offering a practical, humanities-driven engine for the transdisciplinary creation of knowledge in a hypermediated world where boundaries between information, knowledge, and wisdom are increasingly blurred. In a masterful narrative, Dr Bryon problematizes the lineage and practices of knowledge-making across traditions and disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, performance, and complex systems, then proposes useful templates to address the how of knowledge. This forward-thinking volume belongs within easy reach of academics and practitioners alike, in any discipline that wrestles with the escalating complexities of the human condition.”

Daniel Hall-Flavin

Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Mayo Clinic, and Emeritus Medical Director, Dolores J. Lavins Center for the Humanities in Medicine, Mayo Clinic