Sounds like a "branding" question. :-)
How about "the da Vinci discipline?" the "Renaissance discipline"?
I'm kidding. Since only a few geniuses like Da Vinci could truly
claim to be masters in multiple of those disciplines listed....
IMO the answer would depend on where the new discipline rested in the
white space between all those "older" disciplines. It's probably not
equidistant between all of them; and there are too many of them to
pretend that this new discipline would be deep in them all.
One axis is: is it envisioned as being closer to the "quant"
disciplines (engineering, math etc) or being closure to the non-quant
disciplines - cultural/symbolic/interpretive stuff (art, humanities,
etc). "Math" in the title sounds like something towards the "quant"
end of the range.
Another way to look at it: what artifacts/work product does this new
discipline create? Equations, paintings, quantitative models....etc?
Once created, how do other people use that artifact? What "job" or
use does the artifact perform for others?
One part of this "new discipline space" might be Information Architect
(a name for a pretty wide range of things -- some of them are more
technical, some more humanistic/anthropological).
FWIW there seems to be a lot of these "white space" new disciplines on
the rise these days. I attended the EPIC conference recently
("ethnographic praxis in industry," talk about ugly words) -- it's
new-ish conference, a mix of anthropologists, ethnographers, other
social scientists, academics, tech industry people, designers, user
interface and web design people, etc. One big topic at the conference
was how much was going on these days in the white space/intersections
between business, design and social sciences.
- Mary Walker
Consultant
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marywalker
> > What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that
> > incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following:
> > art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics,
> > imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity,
> > entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and
> > enlightenment?
> >
> > And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that
> > discipline / degree / body of knowledge?
> >
> > Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly
> > ugly as a word.
> >
> > Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s
> > science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship
> > used by Charles Darwin in his travels).
> >
> > Ideas??
> >
> > dave west
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