Collaborative Spaces at Work

7 An invitation to the unseen world of networked creativity

Tracing idea journeys through the new infrastructures of work

Tuukka Toivonen, Onyaglanu Idoko, and Carsten Sørensen

Introduction

This chapter argues that collaborative spaces research must transcend the single-space focus that continues to strongly characterize our field and the way in which empirical data are collected. We propose that, by tracing and analyzing patterns of networked creativity – essentially, sequences of interactions and changes to an emerging idea or project that unfold across a range of offline and online locations – scholars will be able to render visible how mobile individuals and teams actually utilize (and potentially benefit from) diverse work infrastructures ...