Landscapes of Practice: Bricolage as a Method for Situated Design

  • Authors:

  • Monika Bü/scher;Satinder Gill;Preben Mogensen;Dan Shapiro

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Sociology and CSCW, Research Center, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, UK (Phone: +44 1524 594175&semi/ Fax: +44 1524 594256&semi/ E-mail: m.buscher@lancaster.ac.u ...;CKIR, Centre for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Ventura Hall, 220 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-4115, USA (Phone: +1 650 7233084&semi/ Fax: +1 650 7230758&semi/ ...;Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark (Phone: +45 8942 5626&semi/ Fax: +45 8942 5624&semi/ E-mail: p.mogensen@daimi.au.dk ...;Department of Sociology and CSCW, Research Center, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, UK (Phone: +44 1524 594175&semi/ Fax: +44 1524 594256&semi/ E-mail: d.shapiro@lancaster.ac.u ...

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper proposes a `bricolage' approach to designing systems forcooperative work. This involves users, participatory designers andethnographers in a continuing cycle of design and revised work practice,often in settings where resources are limited and short-term results arerequired. If exploits the flood to market of hardware, software and services.The approach is illustrated with results from a project with a practice oflandscape architects. Their work is analysed in terms of communities ofpractice and actor networks. These perspectives help to identify the`socilities' of people and technologies and of the relationships betweenthem. They help to distinguish different forms of cooperation with differingsupport needs, opportunities and vulnerabilities. They inform the designof technical support, the assessment of outcomes, and the design of furthersolutions, in a cycle of `situated experimentation'.