The koiné of science: Interdisciplinarity and Mediation

Abstract

An attempt is made to define a way of solving the problem of incoordination between the main needs of scientific and technological development, on the one hand, and the deficit of the new scientific infrastructure aimed to respond to the current social, economic, and cultural changes, on the other. The author suggests turning to the concept of trading zones, proposed by the physicist and science historian P. Galison, using it in a special context of interaction between scientific and extrascientific social subjects. This will concretize the concept of scientific communication, ultimately making it possible to design scientific and technosocial ways of filling in the above lacunae, particularly by developing and expanding the methods of researching, modeling, and designing trading zones.