Barbedo, InêsBarroso, Bárbara2024-01-092024-01-092023Barbedo, Inês; Barroso, Bárbara (2023). Interdisciplinary week in game design: a learning experience. In 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd). 9-22 June 2023, Valencia. p. 263-271. ISBN 978-8-4139-6085-2978-8-4139-6085-2http://hdl.handle.net/10198/29133Interdisciplinarity promotes competencies like asking meaningful questions about a complex problem, examine, and synthesize multiple sources of information, methods, and perspectives, in order to integrate knowledge and ways of thinking across two or more established disciplines to produce cognitive advancement. The Interdisciplinary Week of Game Design challenges the students to demonstrate an interdisciplinary understanding of a complex problem that students define, organized by teams, having as its starting point a given theme. Teamwork between members of different academic years favors the sharing of knowledge among peers with different aptitudes, technical skills, and degrees of competence.engInterdisciplinarityProject-based learningSoft skillsAssessmentconference object10.4995/HEAd23.2023.16375