Re: expanding boundary objects

From: Geoff Hayward (geoff.hayward@educational-studies.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 00:19:36 PST


Linda, this looks really interesting but I cannot access the web site. Is it
the right URL?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Polin, Linda" <Linda.Polin@pepperdine.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:03 PM
Subject: RE: expanding boundary objects

> Mike,
>
> I think this:
>
>
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/members/brown/storytelling/JSB15-practice-rail
> s-for-k.html
>
> excerpt:
>
> There were two communities of practice being brought together, around the
> boundary object, which was, first, this technology, and second, now, a set
of criteria used in a phase gate to
> move technology from research to manufacturing.
>
> And we can now use the steps of this phase gate, this process, to
> negotiate a practice, the meaning of the critical parameters, the
latitudes that would be involved, and so on and so
> forth. And so around this boundary object, we had to construct a new kind
of
> narrative that actually enabled us, for at least that particular event, to
> create some shared trust. To let this idea flow from one community of
> practice to another.
>
>
> Linda Polin
> > ----------
> > From: Mike Cole
> > Reply To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:46 AM
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: expanding boundary objects
> >
> >
> > Martin- What is the JS Brown expansion of boundary object, which appears
> > all over the place these days?mike
> >
> >
>
>
>



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