Abstract
There are many descriptions of interdisciplinarity and how to rate its success, but less research is done on why interdisciplinarity in joint research efforts fails. Explanations are often focused on the conceptual distance between research fields as the cause for communication problems. However, a more pragmatic explanation might be the interaction of participants’ different economic systems in the interdisciplinary setting. In this position paper I take a joint research project at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and the Departmentof Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH, in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, as a case to discuss how to support interdisciplinarity by clarifying differences in gameplay between research fields.