Dear Ken!
I will attend to Judith Gregory´s workshop on activity theory. I have announced it in my hotel reservation.
With regards, Pirkko Anttila
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Pirkko Anttila
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Mannerheimintie 15, 49400 HAMINA
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Lähettäjä: Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Päivä: 15. toukokuuta 2000 9:53
Aihe: La Clusaz Post Conference Workshops
>Have you signed up for a post-conference workshop ?
>
>There will be four post-conference workshops following the conference on
>Doctoral Education in Design. Workshop participation is included in the
>conference fee.
>
>Judith Gregory will lead a full-day workshop on July 13 on activity theory.
>
>John Langrish will offer two half-day workshops on July 13, one on thesis
>writing, and one on doctoral supervision. These two workshops together make
>a one-day track on two central issues of doctoral education in design.
>
>Anders Skoe will led a two-day workshop on July 13 and 14 on behavior
>design. This workshop is limited to 12 participants.
>
>When you book your hotel accommodations and make your travel arrangements,
>please allow for workshop participation.
>
>Please let me know which workshop you wish to attend by signing up at
><[log in to unmask]>.
>
>If you have already registered for a workshop, no need to sign up again. I
>have it in my file.
>
>For those subscribers to Ph.D. Design who are not attending the conference,
>please be aware that these workshops are part of the conference. This is
>not a general announcement.
>
>Ken Friedman
>
>
>---> Workshop on Activity Theory
>
>Judith Gregory, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor
>Department of Informatics
>University of Oslo
>
>All day workshop, 13 July
>
>Activity theory has been an increasingly significant topic of inquiry in
>research fields from design research and computer assisted architectural
>design to management studies and information science. Despite the growing
>interested in activity theory, little of the important literature is
>available in English.
>
>Judith Gregory is an expert in activity theory who used the theoretical
>framework, core concepts, methodological principles, and research methods
>in her own doctoral work at University of California. Her conference paper
>and workshop will explore issues and their implications for critical design
>practices and doctoral education in design.
>
>The workshop will deepen Gregory's description of essential concepts in
>activity theory. These include the mediated and collaborative nature of
>human activity in situated contexts, organized around the notion of the
>activity system, organizational, and cultural-historical communities of
>practice. Another concept particularly significant to design is the use and
>creation of artifacts that are simultaneously material-semiotic and ideal.
>
>Among methodological principles, activity theory emphasizes: following
>complex shared objects (motives) through time (developmentally); detailed
>analysis of practices (e.g., interaction analysis of video documentation,
>conversation analysis); intermediate concept construction (between
>theoretically informed concepts and field data); creating resources for
>reflecting on practices, design, and interventions; and "looking for
>trouble" (regarding discoordination, disruptions, and breakdowns as
>opportunities for creative problem-solving).
>
>The workshop will involve the dynamic presentation of the three areas of
>core concepts, methodological principles, and compatibility. Gregory will
>present recent cases of fruitful combinations between activity theory and
>other conceptual approaches.
>
>
>---> The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing a PhD: Problem to Avoid
>
>John Langrish, Ph.D.
>Director of the Postgraduate
>Faculty of Art and Design
>Manchester Metropolitan University
>
>Morning, July 13
>
>John Langrish has supervised over thirty PhD degrees in art and design and
>examined over forty.
>
>From this experience, he has constructed a list of 'seven deadly sins.' The
>list begins with 1) plagiarism, 2) polemic, and 3) 'shouldism.' The
>Langrish workshop will include opportunities to identify these seven
>failings in examples of student work that demonstrate what 'sinful' writing
>is.
>
>In discussing the original seven deadly sins, Thomas Aquinas stated that
>the best way to combat sin is to concentrate on the opposite virtue.
>Perhaps that is how he became a saint.
>
>The Langrish workshop will also focus on the virtues of the PhD. These
>virtues include originality, reasoned argument, and relevance.
>
>These virtues are contrasted against the seven sins to concentrate on the
>positive aspects of doctoral development. They become more important when
>seen against the background of the 'seven deadly sins.'
>
>
>---> Supervising the Supervisors
>
>John Langrish, Ph.D.
>Director of the Postgraduate
>Faculty of Art and Design
>Manchester Metropolitan University
>
>Afternoon, July 13
>
>Nearly every University provides formal courses for research students. Few
>support for potential supervisors.
>
>This workshops is an opportunity to discuss essential issues in supervision:
>
>1) There is no such thing as 'best practice.' 2) There are many supervisory
>'styles.' 3) The only rule is that both supervisor and student should have
>a clear expectation of each other's requirements. 4) Several common
>problems cause research students to drop out. Many of these can be solved.
>5) Some doctoral supervision is inadequate. Is quality control of
>supervision the answer? 6) Workshop participants will propose additional
>discussion themes.
>
>
>---> Designing Human Behavior
>
>Anders Skoe
>President
>Interactive Coaching Services - ICS
>Geneva
>
>Two-day workshop, 13 and 4 July
>
>Design has grown to encompass services as well as products. In doing so,
>design has moved beyond static design in two or three spatial dimensions.
>Design now inhabits a non-spatial dimension, time. Increasingly, design
>also involves behavior as a dimension beyond the physical dimensions of
>space-time.
>
>Behavior design has many aspects. Between an organization and its clients,
>it involves the behavioral interface between front office employees and
>company customers. Within service firms - including design firms - it also
>involves problem solving, strategy development, company culture, and
>organizational learning.
>
>This workshop will explore this new area of design. Workshop participants
>will learn about behavior design and develop behavioral coaching skills.
>This includes understanding how to design behavior based on the unique,
>existing personalities of organization members, along with understanding
>cross-cultural issues, universally accepted behaviors and their impact on
>people. The workshop will stimulate ideas for research and explore ways to
>teach behavior design at the university level.
>
>Day 1 - Theme: Service Behaviors. This day will present the workshop plan.
>The day's activities will include: who's who among participants, mental
>preparation, service management, customer contact employees as product
>producers, a service is ephemeral - and consumed as it is produced,
>employees produce the service in interaction with customers, considering
>appropriate behavior, creating strong, effective corporate cultures.
>
>Day 2 - Theme: Leadership and Coaching. This day's activities will include:
>day plan, reflection on day 1, customer - employee role plays, feedback and
>suggestions from colleagues, feedback and suggestions from workshop leader,
>some behavioral psychology models and theory, dialogue on research areas,
>dialogue on teaching opportunities, action plans, workshop evaluation.
>
>Anders Skoe has worked as an executive in Telecom Canada, SAS Airlines, and
>the International Airline Transport Association. He now consults to
>telecommunication, information, airline and design firms.
>
>
>
>
>--
>
>
>
>Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
>Department of Knowledge Management
>Norwegian School of Management
>
>+47 22.98.51.07 Direct line
>+47 22.98.51.11 Telefax
>
>Home office:
>
>+46 (46) 53.245 Telephone
>+46 (46) 53.345 Telefax
>
>email: [log in to unmask]
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