Sammendrag
This paper investigates the transformation of information and social learning on a
modern day construction site. The authors will explore this form the perspective of
craftspeople, builders and skilled workers that are hands-on building sustainable
environments. The idea is to throw light on i.e. what's going on outside of offices and
the world of documents, where building research has traditionally been done. What
happens when climate related plans leave the office to be executed? Building a lowenergy
house can serve as an example of this issue: The authors are interested in what
happen when the planned house leaves the architect office to be built.
How are the plans transformed (Carlile 2004) into the practical reality of the building
cite and domesticated by the skilled workers? And how is the perspective and
practical knowledge of the skilled workers included into the plans (Nonaka and
Takeuchi 1995). How do they report their work to government and in formal
comunication? Reports from other fields than the building industry (e.g. theatre,
academia, and health care) indicates that there is a certain mismatch between the
language that workers are called to report by in auditing systems, and their own
practice-near professional language. Is this felt to be a de-empowerment where their
own professional skill is de-valuated on behalf of the concepts of the auditing system?
The authors further ask how the aspect of social learning, which is essential for the
skills in the craft, are accommodated in this perspective, in particular in relation to
changes in building methods due to climate measures.
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