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Where Organization Dwells: A One Day Symposium on Organization, Space and
Architecture 24 May 2005, 10.00am - 5.00pm Warwick Business School,
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Presented by the Warwick Organization
Theory Network

It has become fashionable to claim that organizations have dissolved into
thin air. Despite such overstated claims, space and place continue to be
fundamental to organization, management and work. Employees continue to
jealously guard their workstations. Office parks continue to spring up
around the world. Corporations channel vast sums into 'signature buildings'.
Billions of people leave home every morning to travel to factories and
offices. Consumers lurk in shopping malls. All these facts point to the fact
that one of the most basic experience we have of an organization are the
various spaces in it takes place. 

In this one day symposium an international panel will explore where
organization dwells. The speakers will examine the role of space and
architecture in organization. They will ask how space produces meaning, how
workers use and mis-use space, how architecture expresses the geo-politics
of change, how architecture is blurring the inside and outside of the firm,
and how firms attempt to present a face to the world through their
buildings.     

Presentations:
Christina Volkmann (University of Wales, Swansea) Invasive Spaces: Libraries
and Labyrinths

Damian O'Doherty  (University of Manchester) The Blur Sensation:
Shadows of the Future

Emma Surnam (University of Warwick) Out of sight and beyond control? A
spatial analysis of supervisory responses to a remote workforce.

Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale (University of Leicester) Building Better
Worlds

Jeremy Myerson (Royal College of Art) The 21st Century Office: a story of
narrative, nodes, neighbours and nomads

Patrizia Zanoni (Leuven) Diversity Management as Identity Regulation in the
Post-Fordist Productive Space 

Peter Clark (Queen Mary, University of London) and Scott Taylor (University
of Birmingham) Timed space and the orchestration of work and home in the UK
and USA

Steffen Böhm (University of Essex) Transparent Organization: Architectures
of Ideology and Politics

Tor Hernes (Norwegian School of Management) Spaces as process: Developing a
recursive perspective of organizational space

Venue: 
R0.12 Ramphal Building, University of Warwick, Central Campus, Gibbert Hill
Rd, Coventry CV4 7AL.

The event is free. Lunch and coffee will be provided. 
There is no need to register, but further information can be obtained from
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For travel information please see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/


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André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Andre.Spicer@wbs.ac..uk
+44 (0)24 7652 4513