The Dent in the Floor: Ecological Knowing in the Skilful Performance of Work
从现象学视角探讨工作中如何通过生态认知(一种嵌入时空的感性认知)发展并展现技能,结合工业博物馆、合唱指挥和动作捕捉表演的实证研究,提出生态认知理论,强调嵌入和具身的主体性。
Abstract This paper draws on a phenomenological perspective to explore how people develop and enact skill in work at through ecological knowing – a sensuous form of knowing in one's being embedded in and across place and time. In doing so, we abductively interweave the work of Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and British anthropologist Tim Ingold with an empirical study of two industrial museums and two contemporary illustrations of choral conducting and motion capture performance. Our contribution is threefold: first, we expand theories of knowledge and corporeality by theorizing ecological knowing as encompassing emplaced wisdom and embodied skill – thus elevating embedded and embodied human agency in contrast to studies that focus on the body, skill, and knowledge as objects. Secondly, we present an alternative way of understanding how expertise develops and is enacted in work activities. Finally, we offer methodological resources, currently underutilized in management studies, for studying this sensorial form of knowing in a way that is consistent with its underlying phenomenological commitments.