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the project. The basic activity was the identification and coordination of needs and demandsconnected to the project, which then had to be transformed into a model of the project. Theapplied theory distinguishes between transformation and transfer activities, wheretransformation activities involve that resources are changed, transfer activities that the controlover a resource is transferred from one actor to another. It is evident that these concepts fitbetter to describe activities in an industrial process, where it could be assumed that theresources are more tangible assets or inputs in a production process (raw materials, etc), ratherthan to describe the activities in the early stages of a project, where the resources best couldbe described as knowledge and experience and the output is a conceptual model (anabstraction of the needs of some interested parties). Nevertheless, it is clear that in the casedescribed here, there are resources, the resources are heterogeneous (which means that theknowledge or the expertise of the different aspects of the building project is not sharedequally among the actors) and they are combined with other resources in the activity thatinvolves shaping the project. Figure 4 is an attempt to illustrate the network of actors,activities and resources observed in a specific setting of the case project. While Figure 2 and 3only illustrate the actor network and the relationships between them, Figure 4 is an attempt toshow the most important resources and activities in the network as well. The aim is toillustrate that the resources of the different actors are combined in the Cultural HeritageSeminars to perform the basic activity of shaping the project.27