Spatio-temporal processes of knowledge creation

Interaction in the artistic knowledge creation process: The case of artists in Finnish Lapland

“…The constructionist-cognitive view of knowledge is applied in research about the knowledge creation process with the help of the spatio-temporal framework by (Hautala and Jauhiainen, 2014). In this framework, object, communicative and cognitive spaces are combined with linear and relational times.…”

“…Disconnections may easily evolve in a peripheral geographical space that lacks employees, companies, schools, infrastructure and connections to knowledge networks, when compared to centres (Fitjar and Rodríguez-Pose, 2011, p. 555-556). Economic geographers are only starting to specify the temporality of knowledge creation processes: setbacks, slow times and uncertainty (Hautala and Jauhiainen, 2014), and the meaning of intensive temporal gatherings (Henn and Bathelt, 2015). Knowledge creation processes and related events can be unpacked further with temporality of interactions, for instance, through avoidance, passivity and disconnections.…”

“…The results show that artists living in peripheries find sources of new knowledge from disconnections in interaction; therefore, geographical isolation can benefit international and interactive knowledge creation. This conclusion requires us to notice the temporality of interaction, epistemic objects as partners of interaction, and knowledge creation processes as unfolding in several dimensions of time and space (Hautala and Jauhiainen, 2014). The role of objects is intensified for the artists living in peripheral areas, who might even avoid interacting with humans temporally and focus on interacting with materials and tools.…”

Multidisciplinary research: should effort be the measure of success?

“…(1990), (cited by was that co--workers should be no more than 30 metres apart, which can in practice be difficult to achieve with researchers within the same institution and all but impossible across different institutions. This closeness of team members was echoed by Hautala and Jauhiainen (2014) who recognised the value of team members 'being there' for face--to--face communication. Newell and Swan (2000), focused on the trust between team members of an inter--university, multidisciplinary project based in the UK.…”

On the edge of fluidity: international cooperation in turbulent times

“…This creates ontological fluidity. It is not a displacement in space but a change of intensity of spacetime as an entirety (Hautala and Jauhiainen, 2014). It resembles less the flows of the river and more the oceanic flows.…”