http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/seventh-and-half/2009/03/13/reformulating-the-co-evolution-of-taxi-drivers-and-their-in-car-navigation-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformulating-the-co-evolution-of-taxi-drivers-and-their-in-car-navigation-systems Fabien Girardin Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/seventh-and-half/2009/03/13/reformulating-the-co-evolution-of-taxi-drivers-and-their-in-car-navigation-systems/#comment-385 Sam Kinsley Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:55:33 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/fabien/2009/03/13/reformulating-the-co-evolution-of-taxi-drivers-and-their-in-car-navigation-systems/#comment-385 I was wondering if you will relate your conclusions to the work of von Hippel on user-led 'innovation'? I was struck by how your notes reveal your caste study group as an 'innovation community' (following vin Hippel's 2005 terminology - http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm). Also, if we are to move 'beyond technological determinism' then following Latour (<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TzQAPY8-S7UC" rel="nofollow">1993</a>) we need to take the role of 'things' (such as the GPS, the Guia and the car) seriously in formulating our accounts, not as the motivating factors (driving behaviour), but as co-constituting the assemblages under observation, as in your rendering of the 'co-evolution of the taxi drivers and their in-car navigation system'. I look forward to reading more as the conclusions develop. I was wondering if you will relate your conclusions to the work of von Hippel on user-led ‘innovation’? I was struck by how your notes reveal your caste study group as an ‘innovation community’ (following vin Hippel’s 2005 terminology – http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm). Also, if we are to move ‘beyond technological determinism’ then following Latour (1993) we need to take the role of ‘things’ (such as the GPS, the Guia and the car) seriously in formulating our accounts, not as the motivating factors (driving behaviour), but as co-constituting the assemblages under observation, as in your rendering of the ‘co-evolution of the taxi drivers and their in-car navigation system’. I look forward to reading more as the conclusions develop.

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