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How do engineers collaborate with each other in the process of building prototypes that explore paradigms for a fundamentally new digital medium? This ethnographic case study of a contemporary research group in the Silicon Valley working in the tradition of Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart describes practices of collaboration in the lab, as well as at methodologies, internal negotiations, ideas about the current moment and possible futures of society at large, and emerging paradigms around a Spatial Computational Medium.
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Bachmann, G. (2023). Strapping and Stacking: An Ethnography in Search of a New Medium. In: Gießmann, S., Röhl, T., Trischler, R., Zillinger, M. (eds) Materiality of Cooperation. Medien der Kooperation – Media of Cooperation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39468-4_9
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