Learning Across Sites: New tools, infrastructures and practices - Earli

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Co-configurational design 39
to permeate all these layers, become audible and get mixed in with the meeting
talk. We will briefly describe each of the elements of the framework.
The object of design
The initial definition of the object of design – a set of the Change Laboratory
tools for enhancing learning in professional networks – can be found in the
project documents produced in the application and planning phase. The overall
pedagogy- oriented assignment was formulated as follows.
Educational or workplace communities will be supported in reflecting on
and transforming their knowledge practices and other activities by developing
Change Laboratory Tools (CLT). Toward that end, the CLT help the
participants in making their practices and activity structures visible. The idea
of CLT is to structure the users’ activities in a way that help them address
issues critical for deliberate transformation of prevailing practices. Accordingly,
Video- taped story- telling and Map- It Tools (–) can be used with CLT, but
also separately.
(Knowledge Practice Laboratory, 2006, p. 25)
The technology- oriented task assignment was titled “Change Laboratory Services.”
This task will handle the integration of the Change Laboratory tools within
the KP- Lab shared space. Technology assessment, requirement analysis, and
design will be the activities performed during this first period.
(Knowledge Practice Laboratory, 2006, p. 97)
But the technological design of the CL tools was only one side of the task.
The other side dealt with the knowledge practices of the company in which
the CL tools were to be implemented in the piloting phase.
The planning of the CL will start by specifying the organizational unit with
which the piloting process may be implemented, focused at the analysis and
development of the business concept and the learning activity. The representatives
of customers and other stakeholders will be invited to participate, at least
acting as a mirror for Forest Group’s activity. The case will present an opportunity
to pilot first versions of KP- Lab tools, such as Change Laboratory- tools
and video annotation tools.
(Knowledge Practice Laboratory/WP10, 2006)
The matrix as a boundary object
The matrix for designing Change Laboratory tools, shown in Table 3.1, was
sketched in the meeting preceding the one we analyze in this article. It became
an intermediate tool, a boundary object, which organized the collaborative design