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Atmospheres of Organization (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lydia Jørgensen, Maximilian Schellmann

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 17:45 | 18.10.2021 - 04.02.2022 | C 40.164 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The course engages with understanding that organization and organizing in contemporary society is increasingly shaped by aesthetic and atmospheric aspects. Drawing on fundamental concepts and empirical studies conducted in the areas of organization studies, sociology, and broader atmospheric research, the course seeks to explore and investigate how organization relates to atmosphere as an aesthetic notion and in how far we may even talk of organization as an atmospheric phenomenon. Dealing with atmospheres addresses the ‘felt meanings’ and collective affects emerging from and conditioning of organization and our ways of organizing. You may have experienced new playful office or learning spaces, co-working spaces or urban designs. Googles office spaces are but an example. The atmospheric constitution of organization is manifold ranging from the spatial design of office spaces, geopolitical coordination to the (re)configuration of urban spaces. While atmosphere accentuates the organization of everyday life, it further put emphasis on how atmosphere may also become an affective technology of power and a means of political organizing. The course aims to provide students with theories and concepts to critically examine the atmosphere of organization. The students are further asked to engage with fieldwork and case-based analysis of organization and atmospheric organizing, which involves attentiveness to the affective, spatial, aesthetic and material elements of organizing. Students will gain an understanding of the atmospheric underpinnings of/intertwinement with organization. They will acquire the foundations for an interdisciplinary and methodological viewpoint on organization by acknowledging how thinking organization is informed by, and informs, cultural and social theory.

Organizing museums in digital cultures (Winter Academy, European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lydia Jørgensen, Maximilian Schellmann

Inhalt: +++ If you would like to participate please send an email to haniel_esa@leuphana.de until October 15th, 2021 (max. 1 page covering your motivation why you would like to attend the Winter Academy). You will be notified until October 18h, 2021. The maximum number of Lüneburg participants is 10. +++ Besides the university, the museum is one of the oldest forms to think about and effectuate the organization and representation of knowledge, its history of ideas and its repertoire of artifacts and objects. The museum is currently undergoing an enormous shift in how it performs its own functions, propelled by the ubiquity, everydayness and agencies of digital infrastructures, information technologies and media platforms. These socio-technical conditions are closely related to a broader societal shift towards an experience economy and the culturalization of urban life. They turn museums into exemplary sites of organizational change through and with digital media. Encompassing yet going beyond phenomena such as the digitization of »analogue« collections, online appearance, cultural marketing and museum pedagogy, today’s technological and cultural transitions call for a deeper exploration and reflection of the museum as key organizational site of knowledge, experience and sociality. This Winter Academy will investigate the organizational challenges that museums face in digital cultures, and reflect upon responses and new practices of organizing. Students will have the unique opportunity to empirically engage with selected Swiss museums, e.g. their curators, technicians and managers. Joined by researchers of all participating universities as well as guests, we will jointly work towards an exhibition of the students’ findings on the museum as organizational site for, and in, digital cultures. After an introduction/preparation session, the course is organized in five parts and runs over 5 days, which consist of thematic discussions, museum‑visits, guest speakers, preparatory exercises and project work. Part 1 consists of exploring themes as part of the transformation of contemporary museums and forming groups around a specific theme. Part 2 consists of field work and empirical research based on the themes and exemplary museums chosen. In Part 3, we develop empirical findings through literature research. Part 4 is for preparing and executing the exhibition of one theme, while Part 5 is setting up the exhibition and presenting the findings.