The boundary object
 

Star and Giesemer 1989 ("Institutional ecology, translations, and boundary objects. Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 1907-1939")
 
Mol 138: "The concept of the boundary object grows out of the idea that there are different social worlds. These different social worlds each have their own codes, habits, instruments, and ways of making sense. But they share something: the boundary object. The specific meanings each of them attaches to this object are different. But [...] the boundary object doesn't seem to be two or three different objects. It remains fuzzy enough to absorb the possible tensions."

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #objects, #to_read, #concept

> created May 26, 2025 at 9:35:06 AM


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