Aims and Scope of JIDPS: Coping with the Challenges in Transdisciplinary Design

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In my last editorial for Vol 18 No 4 of the journal (Zeng, 2014), the Aims and Scope of Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science (JIDPS) were summarized into a framework of three levels covering the research findings related to transdisciplinary notions of design and process: 1) understanding of design and process crossing boundaries of natural, human, and built environments, 2) principles, methods, and tools, and 3) applications of design and process science to engineering and social problems. In the last issue, three papers respectively addressing these issues were included. A transdisciplinary design is a design that requires knowledge, expertise, experiences, and tools from different disciplines. There are many challenges in conducting a transdisciplinary design project. First, it is usually difficult for experts from different domains to communicate smoothly due to the different terminology and models that different domains use to describe the world. Second, due to the lac

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