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Trading zones

Trading zones. Michael E. Gorman, UVA Communities of Integration Waterloo, Ontario 6/9/14. Problem of Incommensurability (Kuhn).

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Trading zones

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  1. Trading zones Michael E. Gorman, UVA Communities of Integration Waterloo, Ontario 6/9/14

  2. Problem of Incommensurability(Kuhn) • Occurs when participants from different disciplines and cultures disagree over what is a problem worth solving, the proper way to solve it and even what constitutes data • Stakeholders may disagree on the nature and scope of the system under study and the goals of management, including which stakeholders matter Michael E. Gorman

  3. Trading Zone as solution to incommensurablity • Galison-- scientists and engineers develop an interlanguage (jargon to pidgin to creole) to communicate when designing systems like radar, particle accelerators, and emerging technologies like NBIC • Sketches , models, equations could also serve as creoles Michael E. Gorman

  4. Trading zones allow exchanges across different mental models, values and languages

  5. Interactional experts can act as trade agents or even catalysts in trading zones Interactional Contributory Expertise They gain interactional expertise, or the ability to ‘talk the walk’ of another discipline/culture IBM emphasizes T-shaped expertise

  6. New Paradigm? NSF proposal (By Dean—top-down) New normal Science+ Adapted from Collins, Evans & Gorman Michael E. Gorman

  7. Actors and actants in the Communities of Integration Trading Zone

  8. Sustainability as an example of a superordinate goals that will require collaboration across apparent incommensurabilities • Climate change • Resource exhaustion • Increasing income and opportunity disparity • Preservation of ecosystem complexity/diversity

  9. Trading zones and Communities • Integrate with Toolbox • Do STIR integrators create micro trading zones? • What is the role of TZs in Convergent Technology Engagement?

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