[Sigia-l] "Artful Making"

[Tanya Rabourn]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Christina Wodtke wrote:
> the authors are also the folks who champion creative abrasion,
> a concept I'm currently intrigued by:
> http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/003482.html#003482

David Stark, a sociologist at Columbia studied the collaborative
dynamics of a particular silicon alley new media firm (circa
1999). In a resulting publication "Distributing intelligence and
organizing diversity in new-media projects," he discusses the
concept of "bountiful friction."
        A frictionless coordination in which everyone shared the
        same performance criteria, might make life smooth for
        project managers, but it would lose the creative
        abrasions that are the source of ongoing vitality.

Great paper, plus it's also interesting to see what he (and
Monique Girard) observed to be the performance criteria for an
IA.

http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/downloads/other/dcs36/distributing_intelligence.pdf

-Tanya

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