%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Mixing Practices to Create Transdisciplinary Innovation: A Design-Based Approach %A Kees Dorst %K disciplines %K innovation %K practice %K transdisciplinarity %K transdisciplinary education %X As the problems that are our organizations are facing become more complex, dynamic, and networked, they will need to become more flexible in their ability to respond. These complex networked problem situations often cannot be tackled from a single-discipline perspective, and thus transdisciplinary innovation – that is, innovation across and between disciplinary fields – is becoming more important. But how can we achieve innovation in those in-between spaces, when all of our knowledge and established approaches are held within the disciplines? In this article, we look beyond the limiting confines of traditional disciplines by seeing them as collections of smaller units of action: practices. After a foray into the anatomy of practices, we discuss how a design-based approach to transdisciplinary thinking creates a framework for the mixing of practices, articulating new insights and creating new possibilities for action in the space between the established professions. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 60-65 %8 08/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1179 %N 8 %1 University of Technology Sydney Kees Dorst was trained as an Industrial Design Engineer at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Currently, he is Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney’s Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation in Australia, where he is also the Founding Director of the university’s Design Innovation and Designing Out Crime research centres. He lectures at universities and design schools throughout the world. He has published many articles and several books – including Understanding Design (2006), Design Expertise (with Bryan Lawson, 2009), Frame Innovation – Create New Thinking by Design (MIT Press, 2015), Designing for the Common Good (2016), and Notes on Design – How Creative Practice Works (2017). %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1179