Dear all,
Please find details of an upcoming EIASM workshop (Brussels) that may be of interest to some of you. The deadline for extended abstracts is the 9th March 2008. Full details can be found at http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=577
Best wishes,
Caroline
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WORKSHOP ON ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE: DISTURBING NOTIONS OF STRUCTURE IN ORGANIZATIONS
Convened by Barbara Allen & Heather Hopfl
This workshop seeks to explore a notion of organizational structure which gives primacy to an architectural perspective. In recent years, organizational scholars have given attention to ways of conceiving space in organizations. However, little attention has been given to the influence of architecture on organizations and social behaviour in the context of architectural spaces. There are some notable exceptions to this. Recent work by Burrell and Dale makes a very specific contribution to this field and work by inter alia Eräsaari, Kostera, Kreiner, Lindqvist, Sievers, Strati, Warren and Weiskopf has all contributed in different ways to an understanding of the relationship between architecture and social architecture. However, there has been no coherent focus for these strands of work.
This workshop seeks contributions which will examine the relationship between architecture and the organizational context which offer new perspectives on organizational behaviour and theory. Contributions might include original work on methods and methodology including photo and auto ethnography, gendered aspects of structures, political aspects of space, ethics and ethical structures, symbolic aspects of organizational spaces and structures. The intention is to disturb cosy and conventional notions of structure and to pose alternative perspectives, methods and approaches.
The whole workshop will take place in the Hotel Métropole in which the EIASM premises are located (Place De Brouckère-plein 31, 1000 Brussels). The Hotel Métropole is marvelously well located right in the historical centre of Brussels, just a few steps away from the "Grand-Place", the "Bourse" and the "Theatre de la Monnaie" and close to the central and north railway stations, that each have direct connections to Brussels International airport.
Extended abstracts (2-3 pages) should be submitted for consideration
by March 9, 2008 (new deadline !!!)
To be acceptable, proposals MUST only be submitted through the EIASM website (address above)
All submissions must be in English.
Barbara Allen is an architect by training and was until this year the editor of a leading US architecture journal. She has worked for several years on issues of risk and environment and has recently been working on the aftermath of the New Orleans disaster. Heather Hopfl is an organizational psychologist and co-editor of Culture and Organization. Her interests are in organizational symbolism and behaviour and she is a former Chair of SCOS.
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Dr Caroline Scarles
Lecturer in Tourism
Programme Leader for BSc Tourism Management
School of Management
University of Surrey
Guildford
GU2 7XH
Tel: (0) +44 1483 689653
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