Co-Creation in a Boundary Practice: Lessons Learned from an Engaged Scholarship Approach

In this article, Engaged Scholarship is disentangled from a co-creation and boundary practice perspective. The focus is on the attached inside researcher in collaborative basic research and action research project. Within the information systems discipline the intersection between collaborative basic research and action research is not that well explored. An extra interest has been on the transformation of descriptions to proposed actions that takes place in this intersection. From our empirical findings of an Engaged Scholarship project we have identified four lessons learned that could be used as considerations and proposed actions for the attached inside researcher. The lessons learned are derived from four theoretical themes: co-creation, dialogue, boundary practice and boundary objects. The empirical data presented in the article is from a project called Free2Ride, which was a co-creation project between researchers, ICT-developers and members from two equestrian clubs.