This document summarizes an Outdoor Vision Fest (OVF) that takes a new approach to facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration between departments at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The OVF began in 2011 with film, graphic design, studio art, and photography departments working on focused projects without mandates. This has led to faculty truly mentoring students and department boundaries dissolving. The OVF serves as an "innovation lab" where new ideas and global collaborations can emerge through bonus projects. The fest enhances civic engagement and the document argues collaboration should be about specific projects, not mandates, and is key to 21st century art.