"Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality

In recent years, sheltered by the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences, organisational analysis has paid special attention to artefacts. Nevertheless, there is still a dominant account grounded in a dichotomist view of the subject-object relationship either in teleological (mind-body)...

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Authors: Sánchez Valle, Francisco, Fernández García, Sandra
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repository:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Language:English
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11434
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Keyword:‘informal infrastructure’
prototyping
ethnography of infrastructure
organising practices
sociomateriality
ontology
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spelling "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing MaterialitySánchez Valle, FranciscoFernández García, Sandra‘informal infrastructure’prototypingethnography of infrastructureorganising practicessociomaterialityontologyIn recent years, sheltered by the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences, organisational analysis has paid special attention to artefacts. Nevertheless, there is still a dominant account grounded in a dichotomist view of the subject-object relationship either in teleological (mind-body) or in hylomorfic (form-matter) terms when analysing organising practices. On the contrary, our argument is based on nondualistic approaches in an attempt to foreground relational aspects of practices. From a practice-based approach, the article addresses the role of three ‘prototypes’ aimed at the management of the ‘air’ by citizenship, in the reconfiguration of bodies, technics and ethical-political engagement. Specifically, it focuses on the normative dimensions of organising by which knowledges, materials and values converge in the open-ended process of prototyping. The argument is deployed by relying on qualitative research based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, developed both at different workshops and by online ethnography. The main aim of the article is to show how bodies and artefacts are mutually in/trans/formed when negotiating the social implications for the ontological category of ‘air’. In doing so, the concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ is proposed to account for those practices (which appear somewhat contingent, mundane or, at best, taken for granted) by which agents do not only commit to a particular ethical implication embedded in the category of ‘air’, as a symbolic result, but also to distinctive ways of practicing organisation as a political process of performing materiality. To this end, adopting the analytical concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ allows to simultaneously consider both the formal and informal aspects that emerge in these collaboration-driven practices, as well as to address their effects on the maintenance within and expansion into other networks.Edinburgh University Presse-Spacio UNED20242024-05-2020222022-12-0120222022-12-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/11434reponame:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNEDinstname:Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0oai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/114342026-06-06T12:38:31Z
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spellingShingle "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality
Sánchez Valle, Francisco
‘informal infrastructure’
prototyping
ethnography of infrastructure
organising practices
sociomateriality
ontology
title_short "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality
title_full "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality
title_fullStr "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality
title_full_unstemmed "Informal Infrastructure" of Prototyping: Practicing Organisation by Performing Materiality
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Fernández García, Sandra
author Sánchez Valle, Francisco
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Fernández García, Sandra
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prototyping
ethnography of infrastructure
organising practices
sociomateriality
ontology
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prototyping
ethnography of infrastructure
organising practices
sociomateriality
ontology
description In recent years, sheltered by the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences, organisational analysis has paid special attention to artefacts. Nevertheless, there is still a dominant account grounded in a dichotomist view of the subject-object relationship either in teleological (mind-body) or in hylomorfic (form-matter) terms when analysing organising practices. On the contrary, our argument is based on nondualistic approaches in an attempt to foreground relational aspects of practices. From a practice-based approach, the article addresses the role of three ‘prototypes’ aimed at the management of the ‘air’ by citizenship, in the reconfiguration of bodies, technics and ethical-political engagement. Specifically, it focuses on the normative dimensions of organising by which knowledges, materials and values converge in the open-ended process of prototyping. The argument is deployed by relying on qualitative research based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, developed both at different workshops and by online ethnography. The main aim of the article is to show how bodies and artefacts are mutually in/trans/formed when negotiating the social implications for the ontological category of ‘air’. In doing so, the concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ is proposed to account for those practices (which appear somewhat contingent, mundane or, at best, taken for granted) by which agents do not only commit to a particular ethical implication embedded in the category of ‘air’, as a symbolic result, but also to distinctive ways of practicing organisation as a political process of performing materiality. To this end, adopting the analytical concept of ‘informal infrastructure’ allows to simultaneously consider both the formal and informal aspects that emerge in these collaboration-driven practices, as well as to address their effects on the maintenance within and expansion into other networks.
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