Downey, Gary Lee, and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak. 2017. “Making and Doing: Engagement and Reflexive Learning in STS.” In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies., edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouché, Clark A Miller, and Laurel Smith-Doerr, 4th ed., 223–51. Cambridge: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017].
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/handbook-science-and-technology-studies-fourth-edition
Gary Lee Downey and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, "Making and Doing: Engagement and Reflexive Learning in STS", contributed by Emily York and Shannon N. Conley, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 August 2019, accessed 5 May 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/making-and-doing-engagement-and-reflexive-learning-sts
Critical Commentary
Downey and Zuiderent-Jerak describe practices of making and doing in terms of critical participation and reflexivity. They identify and characterize different elements and ecological dimensions of “distinguishable clusters of STS making and doing” (226).
The STS Futures Lab is particularly interested in how to facilitate felicitous travel of knowledge and expertise across boundaries. The authors here describe a kind of reflexivity and open-ness to multi-directional flows of communication and knowledge-making that seem necessary to achieving these goals.