EGOS 08

I juli deltog jeg i det 24. EGOS Kollokvium. Kollokviet blev i år afholdt i Amsterdam. EGOS er en forkortelse for European Group for Organizational Studies.

Jeg havde indsendt en artikel til konferencen, hvor jeg også præsenterede mine pointer (nedenfor viste videoklip var et af flere 'real-tids video obser-views', som jeg brugte til at krydre min præsentation med - vedlagte klip illustrerer hvordan en ingeniør arbejder med en 3D model...

Abstract. Based on multi-site ethno methodological field studies in the Danish construction industry this pa-per examines the relational effects of 3D object-based modelling. In describing how that technology is being introduced, shaped and enacted, how it associates with, mediates and translates existing practices, I discuss how it has effects for work methods and routines in an (inter-)organisational setting, namely that of architects and consulting engineers. The technology is introduced in the practices in question, in part because of a program referred to as Det Digitale Byggeri (Digital Construction). Among others, the program demands that architects and consulting engineers embrace a new breed of computer-based software programs allowing for 3D object-based modelling.

In this paper I will describe the program and the network of (non-)human actors en-gaged in the promotion hereof with a view to examine various ways in which 3D object-based modelling re-lates and associates itself with the wider socio-material actor-network. This is done in two interrelated sections that serve as a backdrop against which to understand on the one hand, how the program is sought stabilized, at least temporarily, and on the other hand, how the program is challenged by a number of unforeseen transla-tions – Digital Construction manifests itself in ways not anticipated in the original program. In continuation hereof follows a couple of analytical descriptions that illustrate in detail how 3D object-based modelling is en-acted in practice. I will discuss these cases with a view to understand the implications for organising, learning and knowing in the design phases of a construction projects.

Before this, however, I will present in detail the research question and how I intend to deal with it methodologically. I will outline a method assemblage, based on actor-network theory, and I will argue for why I have chosen this particular approach. Prior to the empirically grounded observations and description I have chosen to include a brief section on digitalization and construction IT.

Type of study. Theoretically grounded empirical research (work in progress). Novelty. A method assemblage based on readings of actor-network theory (ANT) / science, technology and social (STS) studies is suggested and applied so as to overcome the dichotomy of individual and organisational learning, to bridge the social and the material.

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