1Innovation and Gender in the making: A gendered analysis of technological performances at The Stage

This research attempt to challenge traditional discourse on innovation that tend to treat innovation as a result of the successful acts of individual talents, while paying little attention to particular places and culturally specific practices of transformative change. The research presented in this text evolves from a strong organizational platform, The Stage, that in everyday life prosper under a different name. By setting The Stage we attempt to convey some of the rules of the play, movements between actors, aspects of farness and distance in space, periphery and centre, mutual interest and goals as they are enacted in our discussions and meetings with various actors, props and quests. The aim of the text is to make visible how relationships between gender and information technology matters by employing ideas from feminist technoscience in juxtaposition with the design of technologies and political orderings. A further intersection of gender and technology is provided by a description of digital materials as objects of and resources and arenas for feminist interventions in innovative design. The results from the presented study indicate that feminist technoscience is increasingly accountable for the IT-based innovation systems that are progressing around the globe