Struggles and joy of multidisciplinary collaboration
program cases in the MFFD research program
B.L.M. Kothuis (TU Delft - Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering)
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Abstract
Designing multifunctional flood defenses requires the input of knowledge from multiple disciplines, as has been frequently mentioned in this book. Researchers from multiple disciplines were employed in the MFFD-program, and they almost universally expressed a keen desire to collaborate. Different ways of collaboration were tried, explored, worked out; some were discarded as less useful, while others developed into useful products (see for example the 'MFFD-decisions' LEGO©-game and the 'Wind-turbines-on-dike' Electro©-game; p. 133).