%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Collaborating Across Disciplines %A Joseph Wilson %X Anecdotal evidence suggests that truly innovative ideas and successful adaptation to market conditions comes from collaboration with people across traditionally demarcated fields of study. In science, economics, and business, it is new ideas that are imported from other realms that are most successful in affecting change. The Treehouse Group is a Toronto-based collective of thinkers from a wide variety of backgrounds that seek to subvert the traditional notion of what constitutes a conference or a networking opportunity by using a wide variety of brainstorming techniques and cross-disciplinary activities to engage participants. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 07/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/267 %N July 2009 %9 Articles %1 Treehouse Group Joseph Wilson is co-founder of the Treehouse Group, and a teacher at a Toronto high school. He has worked at an educator and exhibit developer at the Ontario Science Centre and the Royal Ontario Musuem. He also works as a freelance writer, focusing on issues in science, technology and culture. His work has appeared in NOW Magazine, the Toronto Star, Spacing Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, and he is currently working on a Grade 9 Science textbook for Nelson Education. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Astronomy and Semiotic and Linguistic Anthropology, and a Bachelor of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, specializing in social justice and global education.