The "fable of the elephant house" illustrates a multidisciplinary approach to solving a complex problem because:

It illustrates a multidisciplinary approach to solving a complex problem because the disciplinary committee or the experts spoke with separate voices and their perspectives on the problem were presented in serial fashion. For example an engineer who was on the committee took an engineering approach and said the focus should be on building strong walls, a sociologists concerns were mainly about the number of elephants living in the house and so on.