Helping Interactions and Learning in an Art Crating Company

• In Event: 31.092 - Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: 31.092-4 - Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This paper presents an ethnographic case study of an art crating company. The analysis follows the development, exchange, and transformation of spatial representations over the course of a crating job, where an object (or collection of objects) is inspected, then a crate is designed and constructed for the packing and transport of the object. Employees with a diversity of roles and a range of expertise interact and collaborate to produce spatial representations to accomplish the secure transport of each object.

Authors

• Sarah Catherine Radke, New York University

• Jasmine Y. Ma, New York University