Learning Lab @ the Belvedere, Vienna: Organizing Culture - The Art Museum as Site of Organizational Change
02. Nov - 07. Nov
This course brings together students and lecturers from the University of St. Gallen’s program in Management, Organization Studies and Cultural Theory (MOK) and other HSG-master programmes, and Leuphana University Lüneburg’s program in Culture & Organization (C&O).
Designed as an intensive 4,5-day-experience, the course will take place in cooperation with practice partners and research projects: It is hosted by the Belvedere Museum in Vienna and carried out in conjunction with the “Expanding Art Museums” project, which is part of Leuphana University’s ‘Innovative University’ program (supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
In cooperation with the Belvedere Museum Vienna, this course will investigate the organizational challenges that museums face and reflect upon responses and new practices of organizing. Students will have the unique opportunity to empirically engage with a leading art museum and the wider institutional landscape of organizing art and culture. As a site-specific course dedicated to fieldwork-based teaching and learning, the participants will be able to take a closer look behind the scenes, explore the museum’s processes, technologies and atmospheres of organizing, and engage with its curators, technicians, administrators, educators and managers. Furthermore, we will jointly work towards an exhibition of the studentsʹ findings on the museum as site of organizational and cultural change.