Schedule for Workshop on Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise
The room we will be using is outfitted with a projector that participants can either hook into with their own laptops, or use a laptop in the room. All presentations and discussion will be recorded for the use of participants only, as a record of the proceedings we can collectively mine afterwards. If anyone has an objection to this procedure, they can let Tarek Rached know, and he will turn off the cameras.
Participants have typically been alotted a half-hour, including questions. Each speaker should at least have time to introduce her or his interdisciplinary work to the others. I apologize for the brevity, but I hope to spend as much time on discussion as on presentation.
Monday May 22
8 AM: Continental breakfast available at the Decision Theater
9:00 Welcome and tour of the Decision Theater
10:00 Gorman will describe the rationale for the workshop, and its goals
11:00 Peter Galison will discuss his use of the trading zone metaphor
Noon: Break for box lunch, available at the Decision Theater
1:00 Harry Collins and Rob Evans will talk about interactional expertise and other forms of shared expertise (1)
Practictioners engaged in creating, facilitating or working with interdisciplinary trading zones will give background on what they are doing
Global health:
2:00 Mary Ann Leeper
2:30 Ann Mills
Service Science:
3:00 Jim Spohrer
3:30 Bruce Paton
Discussion
Tuesday, May 23
8:00 Continental breakfast available at the Decision Theater
9:00 Jim Buizer, Instituionalizing trading zones
Trading zones, interactonal expertise and the environment:
9:30 Brad Allenby, Earth Systems Engineering and Management
10:00 Nora Savage
10:30 Raina Plowright
11:00 Kiki Jenkins
Nanotechnology and society:
11:30 Tom Vogt
Box Lunch 12 to 1
1:00 Dave Guston
1:30 Patrick McCray
2:00 Discussion: Convergent technologies, policy and the environment (Gorman willl present materials from Rejeski and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies)
Tools and techniques for documenting and facilitating the development of interdisciplinary trading zones and interactional expertise
2:30 Jeff Shrager
3:00 Matt Mehalik
3:30 Tarek Rached
4:00 Erik Fisher.
Metaphors & trading zones
4:30 Martin E. Rosenberg
Discussion
Wednesday, May 24
(Dan Sarewitz and Ed Hackett may join us for part of this day)
Continental Breakfast available 8:00 AM
9:00 Tiha Von Ghyczy
9:30 Commentary and questions by those engaged in business strategy from Boston Consulting Group (Bolko von Oettinger, Tiha Von Ghyczy), followed by discussion, including possible organziation into sub-groups on the following topics, and/or other topics preferred by participants:
Strengths and weaknesses of the trading zone metaphor, including identification of alternate metaphors
Discussion of sharing expertise in collaborations, including interactional expertise
How do we ensure trading zones have ethical outcomes?
Noon: Box Lunch
1:00 Next steps:
Future research on
Trading zones and other metaphors
Interactional expertise
Collaboration across disciplines and cultures
Policy implications for
Convergent technologies
Environment
Business
Other topics that emerge in the course of the workshop
3:00 Wrap-up--conclusions from the workshop
Comments on the above and suggestions for changes are most welcome!