Deconstructive Design as an Approach for Opening Trading Zones

Allhutter, Doris; Hofmann, Roswitha

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“…''Mind scripting'' draws from this concept but focuses on the design process in that it seeks to deconstruct the implicitly gendered character of conceptions (e.g., quality requirements) that inform work practices. In this spirit, it is designed to be implemented as reflexive process improvement that supports practice-based learning (see Allhutter and Hofmann 2010).…”

Section: Applying Mind Scripting For Feminist Analysis and Interventionmentioning

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Mind Scripting

Allhutter

2011

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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The interventionist turn in science and technology studies (STS) increasingly involves researchers with practices of technology development and thus entails the need for appropriate methodologies. Based in software engineering, this article introduces the deconstructive technique of “mind scripting” as a method for analyzing processes of the co-materialization of gender and technology and as a tool to support cooperative, reflective work practices. Anchored in critical design approaches, “mind scripting” is a means for development teams to disclose discourses implicitly guiding work practices in order to make negotiable the underlying value systems. After discussing its foundation in deconstructivist feminist theory, the author illustrates how the method is applied by drawing on selected empirical results. Generating insights into the reproduction of hegemonic social discourses in development processes, “mind scripting” enables the rethinking of established ways of doing.

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Mind Scripting

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2011

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“…They are understandable as meaningful be-haviour with respect to a common frame of reference and provide a base for ad hoc reactions to situational contingencies. Reflecting work practices and their base of implicit knowledge implies disclosing the pre-structuring mechanism of in/formal organisational hierarchies and hegemonic discourses (see Allhutter & Hofmann 2010). Such kind of investigative reflexivity demands maintaining a critical distance to one's own practices of constructing meaning.…”

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“…Integrating all three levels of learning should initiate power-critical and change-oriented reflection processes in organisations. The notion of 'mightiness' may refer to formal and informal organisational hierarchies and, as Allhutter and Hofmann (2010) add, to hegemonic discourses or practices. In systems development providing functionality and the adequateness of the specification (double-loop learning) are well-established activities; the third loop, i.e.…”

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“…In order to highlight the connection between situated learning and power structures, Allhutter and Hofmann (2010) link the concept of communities of practice to the concept of 'trading zones' developed by Kellogg, et al (2006). 'Trading zones' can be seen as real or virtual spaces of negotiation and learning or agreed procedures of exchange, which are more or less intentionally created by organizations and communities of practices.…”

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A Deconstructivist Methodology for Software Engineering

Allhutter¹

2010

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

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Grounded within qualitative research on software engineering and science and technology studies, the paper introduces a deconstructivist methodology for software engineering. Software engineering is a sociotechnological process of negotiation embedded in organizational and societal contexts. Thus, social dimensions such as hidden assumptions of use contexts (e.g. based on diversity aspects such as age, gender, class or cultural diversity) implicitly inform development practices. To foster reflective competences in this area, the paper suggests using deconstruction as a tool to disclose collective processes of meaning construction. For this purpose, the idea of introducing a deconstructive process to software engineering is linked to approaches of practice-based, situated and context-sensitive learning.

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Deconstructive Design as an Approach for Opening Trading Zones

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