As said before, scientific intervention entails the construction and use of theoretical
models, which give rise to a range of conceptual and symbolic tools that act as
mediators in our activity on the world (this is what Ibarra and Mormann (2006) call
‘representational intervention’). But intervention also embodies the material culture:
the technical (in its broadest sense, akin to ‘artistic’) capabilities that the scientific
community has in order to extend and refine the interaction with reality.