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Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace

de Vaujany, F.X.; Aroles, J.

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Authors

F.X. de Vaujany

J. Aroles



Abstract

An ever-increasing range of work activities occur in open spaces that require collective discipline, with silence emerging as a key feature of such workplace configurations. Drawing from an ethnographic examination of a makerspace in Paris, we explore the ways in which silence is incorporated into new work practices in the context of their actualization, embodiment and apprenticeship. Through its engagement with the conceptual work of Merleau-Ponty, this article does not posit silence as the opposite of sounds or as a passive achievement. Silence is inscribed in a learning process and requires numerous efforts to be maintained (e.g. body postures to avoid staring into the eyes of someone entering into an open space, wearing headphones, etc.). It is also the envelope of numerous noisy acts that take place in the phenomenological body and in the embodied practices of workers. We argue that ‘silencing’ is an event ordering that gives direction to what ‘happens’ in collective work activities and is central to the process of embodied learning in collaborative spaces.

Citation

de Vaujany, F., & Aroles, J. (2019). Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace. Management Learning, 50(2), 208-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618811478

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 17, 2018
Online Publication Date Nov 30, 2018
Publication Date Apr 30, 2019
Deposit Date Nov 22, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Management Learning
Print ISSN 1350-5076
Electronic ISSN 1461-7307
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 50
Issue 2
Pages 208-225
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507618811478
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1313139

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de Vaujany, F.X. & Aroles, J. (2019). Nothing happened, something happened: Silence in a makerspace. Management Learning 50(2): 208-225. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.




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