ABSTRACT This paper examines how materials libraries are used as tools for interdisciplinary collaboration in 3 research projects that inhabit a disciplinary triangle between materials research, design and user needs: PhysFeel, which explores how materials collections can be used in psychological therapies; Light.Touch.Matters, a design-led project to develop new smart materials; and Hands of X, which uses materials collections to develop a bespoke prosthetics service. The paper analyses and contrasts these case studies to better understand the affordances and limitations of materials collections when used as research, translational and design tools. We conclude that in collaborations between materials researchers, designers and end users, tensions arise as a result of the primacy that each partner gives to creativity, the development of new knowledge and to solving societal problems. The use of a materials library addresses many of these issues but is not a panacea for all the problems associated with interdisciplinary working.

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材料图书馆馆藏作为跨学科研究的工具

摘要 本文探讨了如何在 3 个研究项目中使用材料库作为跨学科合作的工具，这些项目处于材料研究、设计和用户需求之间的学科三角关系中：PhysFeel，探索如何将材料集合用于心理治疗；Light.Touch.Matters，一个以设计为主导的项目，旨在开发新型智能材料；Hands of X 利用收集的材料开发定制假肢服务。本文分析和对比了这些案例研究，以更好地理解材料集合在用作研究、翻译和设计工具时的可供性和局限性。我们的结论是，在材料研究人员、设计师和最终用户之间的合作中，由于每个合作伙伴都将创造力、新知识的开发和解决社会问题放在首位，因此出现了紧张关系。材料库的使用解决了其中许多问题，但并不是解决与跨学科工作相关的所有问题的灵丹妙药。