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Atmospheres of Organization (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lydia Jørgensen

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 culture: The art museum as site of organizational change (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Timon Beyes

Inhalt: +++ If you would like to participate please send an email to haniel_esa@leuphana.de until October 1st, 2024 (max. 1 page covering your motivation why you would like to attend the course. You will be notified on October 4th. The maximum number of Lüneburg participants is 15. +++ This course brings together students and lecturers from the University of St.Gallen’s program in Management, Organization Studies and Cultural Theory (MOK) and Leuphana University Lüneburg’s program in Culture & Organization (C&O). Designed as an intensive 4-day-experience, the course will take place in cooperation with - and will be hosted by - the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (Le Musée d’Art Contemporain du Luxembourg, MUDAM). It is carried out in conjunction with the European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (supported by the Haniel Foundation, https://eursummeracademy.com/) and the 'Community Arts and Culture' (part of the TriCo project funded by the the Federal Ministry of Education and Research; https://www.leuphana.de/en/partners/innovation-communities/arts-and-culture.html ). We seek to offer free accommodation in Luxembourg for the nights from Monday (4.11.) to Saturday (9.11.). Students are expected to arrange (train) travel to Luxembourg (on Nov 4) and back (on Nov 9) themselves. Course content Besides the university, the museum of art 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. Art museums are currently undergoing an enormous shift in how they perform their own functions. These organizational changes are propelled by different developments such as broader societal shift towards an experience economy and the culturalization of urban life, new practices of audience participation and exhibition formats, debates and demands around more inclusive and decolonial ways of collecting, exhibiting and reflecting art, positioning the art museum in the spotlight of political protest and activism, and – cutting across all of these developments – the ubiquity, everydayness and agencies of digital infrastructures, information technologies and media platforms. In short, the contemporary art museum is an exemplary site of organizational change. Yet how does this change take place? How is the museum organized (differently)? On invitation by the MUDAM, 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. Joined by further guests and experts, we will jointly work towards an exhibition of the studentsʹ findings on the museum as site of organizational and cultural change. Course structure and indications of the learning and teaching design After an online kick-off session, the course is organized across 4 (full) days in Luxembourg, which consist of thematic discussions, site-specific research, 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. In Part 3, we develop empirical findings (also through further literature research) and prepare the exhibition of findings, while Part 4 is setting up the exhibition and presenting the findings.