Cluster and Session Structure
Design Cluster
Modes of engagement - optimizing role/relationship between social/historical research and the design community - including user studies, evaluation methodologies. (Geoffrey C. Bowker and Johan Schot)
Standards and the design of flexible infrastructures - includes issues of strategic standardization, flexibility, and sustainability. (Tineke Egyedi)
Dynamics Cluster
Path dependencies - intellectual, architectural, organizational legacies. (Paul N. Edwards)
Patterns and principles in infrastructure development (Erik van der Vleuten)
Tensions Cluster
Data cultures and data infrastructures - cultural change among researchers and tensions of scale. (Tom Finholt)
Tensions and priorities - inclusion/exclusion; national/transnational; public goods/market mechanisms; competing development models. (Steve Jackson and Jane Summerton)
Strategies Cluster
Organizational capacities (Cal Lee)
Planned, emergent, and opportunistic change (JoAnne Yates)