ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapters of this book. The book comprises studies of the stuff and signs, as well as the practitioners and practices, that constitute studios. It develops some thoughts on the heterogeneities evidenced in studio practice. Studio studies is still in its infancy, there is still work to be done in delimiting its scope and demarcating its domain. The book explains aesthetics are not foreign to scientific practice, and the 'scientific citizen' is also a consumer who both consumes scientific knowledge and uses scientific knowledge to inform their consumption 'choices'. Science comes in many forms and the practices of different disciplines reflect very different 'epistemic cultures'. Thus to engage with the studio means closely studying the situations in and through which distributed creation processes take place.