By Kathleen Uyttewaal It’s confusing to wrap your head around multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work. They are all popular words lately in research, governance, businesses and civic society, so let’s break the concepts down into bite-sized pieces. For this, a metaphor and a snack will help: grab a cookie! Multidisciplinary work is like having flour, sugar, butter, eggs and chocolate all sitting in a bowl (please adapt your theoretical recipe based on dietary needs and/or beliefs!). They are the essential ingredients for a cookie, and they all do great stuff on their own, but they sit there separately without mixing. […]