The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic Kathryn Henderson offers a new perspective on this topic by exploring the impact of computer graphic systems on the visual culture of engineering design. Henderson shows how designers use drawings both to organize work and knowledge and to recruit and organize resources, political support, and power.Henderson's analysis of the collective nature of knowledge in technical design work is based on her participant observation...
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, so...