Back to the notion of boundary object (2)

In the first 2009 issue of the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances (Trompette &Vinck, 2009), we gave an extensive overview of the origins of the notion of boundary object as well as its uses since the term was first published in the article entitled “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’, and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals” by Susan L. Star and James R. Griesemer (Star & Griesemer, 1989). The notion placed thinking about collective action and innovation in an ecological pers..