Material knowing: the scaffolding of human knowledgeability

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThis article is based on an address given to the Sixth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities, Cambridge, MA, in March 2005. I would like to thank Sue Newell for her invitation to develop these ideas. I am also grateful to my collaborators at MIT – JoAnne Yates, Stephanie Woerner, and Kate Kellogg – for their contributions to this work. The research discussed here was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation under award #IIS-0085725.Notes1 Thanks to Chris Sykes for highlighting this important aspect of scaffolding.2 The Social and Economic Explorations of Information Technology research project is funded by the National Science Foundation under grant #IIS-0085725 (http://SeeIT.mit.edu).3 Names of all organization, departments, and people have been disguised.4 Of course, action prior to and after the meeting was also scaffolded by various materialities, but for the purpose of this vignette, I will focus primarily on the duration of the meeting.