Nomadicity – bug or feature?

Abstract

This paper takes an auto-ethnographic approach, focusing on my own nomadic work practices as part of a sabbatical year. A diary excerpt is used to illustrate an example of working “anywhere, anytime” motivated partly by deadlines, but also by project interdependencies, as well as by urgency and by the desire to make space for some leisure time. Work happened seamlessly at different places, mobilizing various artefacts and involving various collaborators as a result of coordination efforts ’over trajectories of time and distributed in space’ (Rossitto and Eklundh, 2007).