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Lehrveranstaltungen

Entrepreneurship and Intervention in Organizing Culture (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Boukje Cnossen

Inhalt: In the course Entrepreneurship and Intervention in Organizing Culture, students will gain hands-on experience with design thinking and other creative ideation tools and methods through group work. Alongside the practical experimentation with such tools, academic research, from fields such as management and organization studies, (critical) entrepreneurship studies, (cultural) sociology, and communication theory will be used to further theorise, contextualise, and critically reflect on the performativity of such tools and methods. To test their ideas, students will explore a real-life case of a cultural organisation and will be invited to develop entrepreneurial and creative propositions to intervene and enact change. As such, they will be asked to use the skills and knowledge acquired in the first part of the module as well as engage in constructive dialogue at the interface with practitioners in the field of culture. Interventions and entrepreneurial ideas will be developed in co-creation and students will be asked to reflect on the processual and interdependent nature of entrepreneurship and intervention in such settings.

Masterprogramm Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization - Kernbereich - Organization in Arts and Culture

Theories, sites and practices of organizing culture (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Timon Beyes, Maximilian Schellmann

Inhalt: The seminar is dedicated to forms and processes of cultural organization. The seminar is structured into three parts, echoed in the course schedule. In Part I (Sociological Background, organized into weekly sessions), we draw upon sociological and organization-theoretical writings to relate core questions of organization and organizing to changes in the sphere of art and cultural production. In Part II (Sites, organized into thematically blocked sessions), we engage with key fields and sites of cultural organizing. These entail, for instance, a) so-called ‘creative cities’ as sites of cultural organizing; b) the (related) rise of ‘culturepreneurship’ as a kind of entrepreneurial turn in cultural production; c) platform-based organization and its technologies of cultural production and circulation; d) (art) museums as paradigmatic cultural institutions and the demands to reorganize how they operate; e) contemporary art’s 'organizational turn' or 'organizational aesthetics' and its collective experiments in alternative organizing. In Part III (Fieldwork, organized into group-led empirical research and concluding research conference), the students conduct their own empirical investigations of contemporary forms and processes of organizing culture. The participants are asked to identify and form groups around specific cases, sites, initiatives or platforms (not limited to the fields and sites listed above). Feldwork can take the form of, for instance, on-site visits, interviews, participant observation, and other fieldwork techniques. The groups present their findings in a concluding research conference (in the form of a mini-exhibition) in a local art space.

Masterprogramm Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization - Kernbereich - Organization in Arts and Culture