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Reproducing the Centre: Performing Innovation at Xerox PARC
Summary: Based on materials developed during my tenure as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) between the years 1980 and 2000, this project examines discourses and material practices of innovation, particularly as they relate to the production of new technologies. My interest is in looking at practices of innovation both critically and ethnographically. Critically, in the sense of questioning basic assumptions about what it means to create something new, by locating the new in those particular places and those specific moments where it is conjured forth and does its work. And ethnographically, insofar as the basis for my particular examination of the new is extended engagement with everyday practices of technology research and development, informed by interests and debates within cultural anthropology and science studies. The framing argument for this project was developed with funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Science in Society Research Programme.
Key Facts
Funder: ESRC
Type of Activity: Academic Research - Other
Principal Investigator: Lucy Suchman
Dept/Research Groups: Centre for Science Studies, Sociology
Keywords: Cultural anthropology, Design, Ethnography, Information systems, Innovation, Science and technology studies, Feminist cultural studies of science and technology
Research Significance
Academic
Purpose of Research
Academic Research - Other
Project Funder
ESRC
Science in Society Programme
Publications
Centres of excellence
Science Studies (CSS)
Environmental Change (CSEC)
Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
Gender and Women's Studies (GWS)
ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen)
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