“Creative Conflict” or “Suspended”: The Dark Side of Professional Miscommunication in Emergency Construction Activities
Abstract
This article is devoted to the autoethnographic study of professional miscommunication in architectural and construction activities. The material was collected during the architectural supervision at one construction site in the city of Tyumen. Using the construction of a mockup, a full-size layout of one building fragment, failures in professional communication between architects and builders which formed barriers to achieving the desired result are discussed. Describing the history of a complex professional process, the author rethinks the plot of conflict-overcoming “creative co-creation” characteristic of the anthropology of the architectural and construction professions, and focuses on the dark side of professional miscommunication.
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