my previous mail should of course have read PDW not pdf!
To pick up on echoes of previous mails, when we started the AMO conferences
they were aimed at a broad community, and very deliberately non-aligned. It
wasn't ever aligned with AACORN, but it became very important to AACORNERS
after the end of Academy Arts. We wanted to create a space which, though
primarily academic, was for doing academics DIFFERENTLY, where
practitioners could also practice without feeling the need to
intellectualise and abstract their work beyond the point where it felt
appropriate. And when we said Academic, we didn't mean business and
management academics only, and we didn't get just business and management
academics turning up. We were indulgent of inspired eccentricity whilst
encouraging of creative rigour, and ecstatic when the two came together.
These things we didn't find in any of the academies, European or otherwise.
We had found them to a degree in SCOS, but SCOS purposes are different.
Academies are gifted and compulsive when it comes to killing creativity
behind a banner of supposed "quality". Whilst if AACORNERS want to meet and
discuss Art and Management and Organization in Montreal they have every
right to do so, and Paul is to be thanked for generously offering that
opportunity, I wouldn't want that to be thought of as the Art of Management
and Organization Conference. I'd rather there be a discreet pause, a
considered regrouping, and a graceful return in a suitably understated
blaze of glory into the uncoopted space we have carved out for everyone.
Steve L.
On Mar 23 2010, creativepathways wrote:
>Dear All
>
> I am not an academic but attended the Banff conference,my first ever. I
> found myself in the wonderful company of "like minds and souls"and was
> very stimulated by the conference. So much so that in the last two years
> questions that I have mulled over for twenty, start to find direction.
> The sense of participating,being part of this community, was much more
> than just stimulating or inspiring for me personally.
>
>Working without institutional backing I can only offer than my heartfelt
>encouragement and thanks to this community many of you whom I now know
>albeit if only through your conversations and papers.
>
> I feel the openness of this community to be its glue and its non
> judgmental aspirations its guiding star.As a practitioner I would be
> deeply saddened to feel this welcome opening into a unique world of
> enquiry could close in any way. I wish to encourage those that can, to
> carry the same spirit of AACORN through this crisis, which will be rich
> in new opportunities, and thank you all for your serendipitous part in my
> own journey.
>
>warm regards
>David Kayrouz
>
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