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Artifacts and Knowledge Negotiation Across Domains
OBJECTS AS ARTIFACTS
The material world, in one shape or form, always mediates human activity. People never act in a vacuum or some sort of hypothetical universe of doing but always with respect to arrangements, tools, and material objects (Engestrom, 1990). Even an idea generates value for the individual because it has material-objective force in terms of its consequences in the social world (Strauss, 1993). “Object[s]” write Bowker and Star (1999, p. 298), “include many things—stuff and things, tools, artifacts and techniques, and ideas, stories and memories—objects that are treated as consequential by a community members (Clarke ...
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