Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Potter's Objects

It might otherwise be said that the objects of the sciences and more
mundane fields of practical action are potter’s objects, whose practical observability and practical objectivity is bound up with the interactional work-practices that make them visible and available to human knowledge.
-- Crabtree, A. (2004) Taking technomethodology seriously: Hybrid change in the ethnomethodology-design relationship. European Journal of Information Systems, vol. 13, pp. 195-209

The product is tied up in the process that was used to make it. Cool.

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