Boundary Objects is a zine in cooperation with Dong-Kai Hu and Wan-Ru Lee. We noticed numerous assembled artifacts on the street to occupy parking spaces or warn others not to infringe on private land. And the assemblages like this that declare power are—Boundary Objects, in our terms.

We developed the project with a theme of Boundary Objects, collected a large number of related cases from the street, and made a zine to guide everyone to make Boundary Objects. We also did several real cases and exhibited them along with the zines in Taipei in 2019.

In sociology, a boundary object is information, such as specimens, field notes, and maps, used in different ways by different communities. Boundary objects are plastic, interpreted differently across communities but with enough immutable content to maintain integrity. The concept was introduced by Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer in a 1989 publication (p. 393):[1][2]

Boundary objects are objects which are both plastic enough to adapt to local needs and constraints of the several parties employing them, yet robust enough to maintain a common identity across sites. They are weakly structured in common use, and become strongly structured in individual-site use. They may be abstract or concrete. They have different meanings in different social worlds but their structure is common enough to more than one world to make them recognizable, a means of translation. The creation and management of boundary objects is key in developing and maintaining coherence across intersecting social worlds.

邊界物是人造的 / 邊界物是在地出發的 / 邊界物是跨社區跨地域 / 邊界物在不同語境中會有不同含意，但仍有強烈的共識度 /

「邊界物型錄 no.1」是三位創作者對於都市中出現的奇妙野生物件的收集考物誌，以各自怪奇的觀察視角，視它們為「Boundary Object（邊界物）」，研究在公共空間中人為介入對於環境的奇妙轉換，和令人心動可愛風景。

「邊界物型錄 no.1」收錄與研究的標準有：
1、物件被人為組合/被使用於都市中的公共空間
2、物件保留某種可能存有的功能/可被討論的空間
3、置入視角後，物件在環境中延伸出一種閱讀趣味

「邊界物型錄 no1」以“暫領 / Occupy、“宣誓 / announce”、“氛圍轉換 / atmosphere”三個主題来做採集選物，三個主題散發出台灣常民脈絡中的生活光景，它們指引對話的介質，成為都市生活裡難以忽視的街道景觀。