Earlier this week, I had a professor guest lecture in my play analysis class about theater design. While I should have been paying attention to what he was saying about design concepts, I feverishly scribbled ideas regarding Interdisciplinarity. The professor informed us that a set designer must be well educated in the areas of art history, architecture, and color theory — he deemed it a “hybrid art form.”
It automatically clicked in my head that even in design there are concepts of Joe Moran’s Interdisciplinarity . Upon learning the necessary requirements of being a successful set designer, I was thrilled to understand how this “hybrid art form” is an example of interdisciplinarity in a smaller scale. If a set designer has to have so much knowledge of other areas of art, imagine the playwright’s knowledge as well! This reassured my appreciation for authors; an author collaborates any knowledge they have about a particular subject and creates a form of literature. It makes me wonder of the processes an author must go through when creating such complex characters and situations and of the extensive research they must do. Overall, I was excited for my realization.