Abstract
The project aims to study how social, material, technological, and contextual factors are coordinated
and reconfigured over time by the groups and individuals engaging in skilled practices, in particular
scientific and interdisciplinary practices. Specifically, the project will focus on the practices of
REPAIRS ETN. As a large interdisciplinary consortium, the REPAIRS ETN brings together different
disciplines, composed of individuals responding to different patterns of socio-material practices and
norms, with the common goal of advancing rehabilitation practices through the system perspective.
Achieving this shared goal means that individuals will learn how to participate in and coordinate
several different practices and change their criteria for success together as these practices get
coordinated over time. Understanding how norms and values emerge from coordinated activities is
crucial to appreciating the scope of the system perspective guiding the ETN. Through ethnography
and observations of the different practices of scientists and experimenters this project seeks to
contribute to a deeper understanding of how normative coordination is made through the activities
of skilled individuals, and groups, but in particular to understand the role of materials, technologies,
and the environment in shaping and enabling this coordination over time.
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