Theme 1: Knowledge building for a Knowledge Society Knowledge Building: A Trajectory

Discursive hybridity as a tool of knowledge building Ritva Engestrom, University of Helsinki, Finland

Poster Abstract I shall focus on the emergence of discursive hybridity in the context of Change Laboratory, and intervention method developed and used by our research groups in Helsinki. The method aims at transcending the gap between research and practice in at least three complementary ways. First, a context dedicated to knowledge building in order to change activities is constructed in which practitioners (their clients), and researchers experience and experiment with possible future forms of activity by moving between future-oriented envisioning and consequential decision-making. Secondly, the construction and application of new mediating conceptual tools and models aimed at expanding the object of the activity are employed and developed. Thirdly, researcher-interventionists make themselves contestable and fallible participants of the discourse, which means that their actions also become objects of data collection and critical analysis.