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Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer, “Institutional E... ‘Translations,’ and Boundary Objects:Amateurs and Pr... Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939,”... Science, 19: 387-420

I first encountered the term boundary object when reading %u201CDistributing intelligence, organizing diversity,%u... of a silicon alley new media firm. In it David Stark, re...
What Star teaches us is that the fact that we all un ...
Star, S. L. an

What is Literature?
A Definition Based on Prototypes
Jim Meyer
(10 pages, 49 Kb)
... ad aesthetically, and containing many weak implicatures.

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio

rian Marick, Boundary Objects
An analytical concept from science studies: does it appl ...

Theoretically, the number of numbering systems is unlimi... complete (used by the divinities and the angels) has an ... symbols, one for each individual number; the simplest ne... is written as 0, one 1, two 10, three 11, four 100, five... seven 111,

These would be the successive phases of the image:
1 It is the reflection of a basic reality.
2 It masks and perverts a basic reality.
3 It masks the absence of a basic reality.
4 It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is it ...

The foundations of spatial analysis span many discipline... generations of researchers and practitioners. CSISS Clas... summaries and illustrations of major contributions to sp... the social sciences. Primary emphasis is given to resear... with an att

One of Lynch's innovations was the concept of place legi... essentially the ease with which people understand the la... By introducing this idea, Lynch was able to isolate dist... city, and see what specifically is making it so vibrant,... people. To

Special Issue #5: Virtual Architecture at State of Play ... 2005

Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke did experiments... contrary to what many scholars believed, children learn ... independently about objects before they learn language. ... Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)

I call these boundary objects, and they are a major met...
heterogeneous problems. Boundary objects are objects ...
enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the ...
employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a commo ...
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The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ, ?) or Pecha Kucha Night... format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and... It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytha... Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young... meet, netwo

oundary Object: %u201CArtifacts, Documents and perhaps e... can help people from different communities build a share... Boundary objects will be interpreted differently by the ... communinities, and it is an acknowledgement and discussi... differences

oundary objects 'have different meanings in different so... their structure is common enough to more than one world ... recognizable, a means of translation' (Star and Grieseme...

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

Technoetic Arts
A journal of speculative research
Edited by Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium.
This peer-reviewed journal presents the cutting edge of ...

The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice is the offic... Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) net... art and design institutions an arena in which to explore... notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visu... art and des

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