Ecologiesof knowledge:

scouting, mapping + locating

three moves:

1. bodiesofknowledge

three moves:

2. instrumentsof knowledge

3. ecologiesof knowledge

“diverse organisms interacting in an

enabling environment”

three questions:

three questions:

1.who/what are the players?2.how do they interact?3.how is this enabled and sustained?

abstract

explicit implicit

concreteEnablingenvironment

abstract

explicit implicit

concrete

institutionsassociationssectors

networkscommunities of practice

existing bodiesof knowledge laws protocolsP policies theories

paradigmsideologiesdiscoursesimplicitknowledge

Enablingenvironment

three things to do:

three things to do:

1. scout

2. map

3. locate

Acknowledgements

Thorn tree photograph by angela7dreams http://www.flickr.com/photos/angela7/

MRI body photograph by by Gaetan Leehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/2946794422/sizes/l/

Phrenology instrument photograph by by A.M. Kuchlinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/44165698@N00/50323539/sizes/o/

Sunset tree photograph by by angela7dreamshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/angela7/343536242/sizes/l/

Crowd sketch by by Kaja.Ahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kaja_a/3183156356/sizes/l/

Map of Africa by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL (modified)http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2709959865/