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When the digital revolution never comes – frictions and care in implementing Building information modeling
Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9888-303X
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The new technologies under the name of Building Information Modelling (BIM) can be used to facilitate collaborations and have been predicted to be central in the digital revolution of the construction industry. However, BIM has been available for almost a decade, yet the industry still relies heavily on paper documents and the profession specific software BIM was supposed to replace. The resistance towards BIM has foremost been explained by organizational and collaboration problems but in this paper I will argue that BIM more importantly fails in changing how knowledge is produced, handled and negotiated. The paper builds on a case study of a consultancy company in Sweden and analyse professional practices inspired by concepts from the knowledge infrastructure framework (Edwards et al., 2013; Bowker, 2016). In this paper I explore how BIM sometimes successfully breaches established methods and challenges existing knowledge hierarchies while at other times fails to become embedded in everyday practices. BIM comes with embedded values and shift power relations due to different levels of IT knowledge. Feelings of pride in, and care for, craftmanship is shown to be crucial for when digital technology succeeds in, or fails to, change how data is reconfigured into knowledge as well as how knowledge is negotiated and ordered. With this paper I invite further discussion on how we can understand failure of digital technologies in relation to feelings of care as well as how it changes knowledge infrastructures.

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2023.
Keywords [en]
BIM, frictions, care
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Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-195230OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-195230DiVA, id: diva2:1769345
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Nordic STS conference 2023
Available from: 2023-06-16 Created: 2023-06-16 Last updated: 2025-02-20

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