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Boundary Objects As Facilitators in Sustainable Building Research

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  • Thomas Berker
  • Ann Kristin Kvellheim

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In recent years, the claim has become mainstream that to reach ambitious environmental goals, building research can greatly profit from a transdisciplinary collaboration that crosses academic disciplines and includes non-academic partners. We summarize experiences accrued in 7 years of intensive transdisciplinary work performed in the Norwegian Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings. Our analysis, which employs conceptual tools from symbolic interactionism (social worlds and boundary objects), is based on two surveys among the Centre’s researchers and industrial partners and eighteen qualitative interviews exploring the Centre’s members’ views and experiences. In the analysis of the material, the research centre’s eight pilot buildings emerge as boundary objects that facilitated collaboration among the non-academic partners, while ‘robust solutions’ was the main boundary object which enabled interdisciplinary academic work. Practical recommendations for transdisciplinary (building) research derived from these observations conclude the article.

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  • Thomas Berker & Ann Kristin Kvellheim, 2018. "Boundary Objects As Facilitators in Sustainable Building Research," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 45(2), pages 202-210.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:45:y:2018:i:2:p:202-210.
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    1. Berenike Feldhoff & Nils Stockmann & Nora Fanderl & Anne-Kathrin Gahle & Antonia Graf & Matthias Leger & Marco Sonnberger, 2019. "Bridging Theories and Practices: Boundary Objects and Constellation Analysis as Vehicles for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-18, September.
    2. Callum J Gunn & Sevgi E & Teresa Finlay & Lidewij Eva & Teun Zuiderent-Jerak & Tjerk Jan Schuitmaker-Warnaar, 2023. "Co-design and its consequences: developing a shared patient engagement framework in the IMI-PARADIGM project," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 50(6), pages 1018-1028.

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