Research Project as Boundary Object: Negotiating the Conceptual Design of a Tool for International Development
Research Project as Boundary Object: Negotiating the Conceptual Design of a Tool for International Development
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作为边界对象的研究项目：谈判国际发展工具的概念设计
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2009
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T. Anderson
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A. Light;T. Anderson
本文反映了谁的设计和什么人设计的政治变革的非结构化空间，特别是支持“国际发展”与信息和通信技术之间的关系。我们看一个跨学科的研究项目的目标和资金，但没有明确界定的受益群体在开始时，以及如何无定形的影响。所报告的项目研究了一种桥接工具，将全球范围内的生产者与消费者联系起来，并显示供应链中的参与者及其情况。我们将探讨如何研究的性质和工具的功能成为有争议的工作进展。为了讲述这个故事，我们引用了边界对象的概念，以及在项目的人工制品和过程的弹性意义之间来回定位的价值。我们研究了该项目在印度，智利和其他领域的作用，以找出它作为催化剂的方式，以及缺乏承诺的设计选择如何成为实现其目标的意外力量。
This paper reflects on the relationship between whoone designs for and whatone designs in the unstructured space of designing for political change; in particular, for supporting “International Development” with ICT. We look at an interdisciplinary research project with goals and funding, but no clearly defined beneficiary group at start, and how amorphousness contributed to impact. The reported project researched a bridging tool to connect producers with consumers across global contexts and show players in the supply chain and their circumstances. We explore how both the nature of the research and the tool's function became contested as work progressed. To tell this tale, we invoke the idea of boundary objects and the value of tacking back and forth between elastic meanings of the project's artefacts and processes. We examine the project's role in India, Chile and other arenas to draw out ways that it functioned as a catalyst and how absence of committed design choices acted as an unexpected strength in reaching its goals.