The world today presents us with many complex challenges, such as dealing with a pandemic. The solutions to these challenges are not easily found through the lens of single scholarly disciplines. Increasingly, problem-solving in a complex world requires approaches that bring two or more disciplinary perspectives into communication (inter- and multi-disciplinarity) and, in some cases, even requires than disciplinary boundaries be transcended to generate novel approaches (trans-disciplinarity). In this workshop, Victoria Lemieux will discuss how she and her colleagues at Blockchain@UBC have developed and are using a unique “Three Layer Model” to bring students from different disciplinary perspectives into conversation surrounding blockchain solution design challenges to generate deeper cross disciplinary understanding and novel design insights.

Victoria L. Lemieux is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Information. Her interests include risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in blockchain record keeping systems, and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human rights. Between 2014-2016, Dr. Lemieux worked with the World Bank on transparency and information management to support economic and social development, leading various big data analytics projects and winning the Bank’s Big Data Innovation Award in 2015. In 2016, Dr. Lemieux founded, Blockchain@UBC’s multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster and in 2019 NSERC awarded her $1.6M to train up to 139 masters and PhD students from multiple disciplines in blockchain and distributed ledger technology over the next five years. Dr. Lemieux has won several awards for her research and contributions to the field of archives and records management, including a 2020 Global Blockchain Revolution Award for Blockchain Ecosystem Leadership.

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