ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on one case study of a Synapse artist-in-residence project that supported an artist to work in collaboration with scientists in their organisation as a means of encouraging innovation. Analysis of interview data shows how the effects of the cross-disciplinary collaboration disturbed the taken-for-granted understandings of scientists and created a "space for innovation", where the artist challenged workplace, disciplinary, and organisational orders in ways that materialised as innovations. The chapter argues that innovation materialises transgression which is embedded in cross-disciplinary borderland workplaces. The notion of "boundaries" has been the focus of much research as a way of understanding differences between social spaces. Well-established sociological traditions focus on boundaries that become fixed and maintain power structures. This chapter has examined human dimensions of innovation that are enable by cross-disciplinary collaboration. Realizing innovation means disrupting or disturbing the prevailing knowledge and authority orders that delineate knowledge boundaries as social boundaries.
