This is quite clear for the micro-protected spaces of laboratories and other sites of scientific work, and the meso-level protected spaces of scientific communities and peer review, although there is also opening-up, ranging from citizen science to criticism of scientific practices and the knowledge that is being produced (Rip [2011]).
Still, if Quest to Learn was a "possibility space" — a sort of laboratory for the future of learning — you could also see how those possibilities might feel entirely out of reach to an educator working in a more typically cash-strapped, understaffed school.
But I am wary of simplifying this situation by a warning from Matthew Gandy at UCL: "To treat the city as a living art installation, or compare it to the neutral space of a research laboratory, is both to de-historicize and to depoliticize its experience".
Social studies of science and technology have suggested that contemporary development and deployment of new technologies increasingly takes place in wider social spaces rather than in the protected space of the scientific laboratory.
In 2007, Yale University bought a research campus from Bayer HealthCare AG that covers 136 acres and includes 550,000 square feet of laboratory space, along with 275,000 square feet of office space, and 600,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space, as we reported at the time on the Science Careers blog. .
Today, Rose's operations occupy about forty-five hundred square feet of laboratory space on the Irvine campus.
That means larger classes, and a critical shortage of laboratory space.
And he said that the university was moving ahead with the renovation of laboratory space for the research center in one of its existing buildings.
They found discrimination in areas including hiring, awards, promotions and inclusion on important committees and in allocation of laboratory space and research money.
It makes recommendations for the organization of laboratory space, laboratory furnishings, equipment, and basic supplies.
