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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 September 29th, 2025 (max. 1 page covering your motivation why you would like to attend the course). You will be notified on October 2nd. The maximum number of Lüneburg participants is 10. +++ 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 Lenbachhaus in Munich (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München). 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 can offer free accommodation in Munich for the nights from Monday (3.11.) to Saturday (8.11.). Students are expected to arrange (train) travel to Luxembourg (on Nov 3) and back (on Nov 8) 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 Lenbachhaus Munich, 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 4,5 (full) days in Munich, 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.

Speculating organizational futures (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Lydia Jørgensen

Inhalt: The seminar aims to provide students with an understanding of, and investigating, speculative design as organizational future making Within organization studies a.o. strategy has been know as a way for organizations to deal with the future, or as Kornberger says stategy reflects ‘a peculiar technology to discipline the future’ (2013: 104). Recent discourses on e.g. digital transformation, sustainability and geopolitical changes stress the future as hard to determine and openended. These approaches address future making as an organizational phenomena and practice (Comi and Whyte, 2018; Wenzel et al., 2020). Drawing on process philosophy and practice theory, this implies that practices of future making take part in enacting the future and may do so through performative materializations of organizational futures. Centering on speculative design and prototypin, the seminar seeks to explore critical design thinking a practice of future making and a way of advancing materializations of organizational futures. Speculative design has emerged as an approach that seeks to imagine alternative futures as a way to engage critically with complex societal and organizational matters. It does so by combining design thinking, artistic research and social science approaches. Through speculative prototyping ways to imagine and materialize how things, systems and behaviors could be different than what they are today are persued by asking ‚what if?’ or ‚what might have been, if?‘. As such the aim is not to predict the future, but to critically consider what futures could be or become. Rather it means critically engaging with how existing assumptions, values and behaviors could be different by creatively investigating and exploring everyday cultures and practices. A well known example of speculative design, is the development of Apples first iPhone. Here Speculative Design was used to radically re-think the role of technology in everyday life, rather than ‚just‘ develop a new phone, which has in many ways has fundamentally changed the digital practices in society. Working with selected, relevant approaches to organizational future making and speculative design in particular, students will learn to critically address organizational futures through speculative design and prototyping. For the purposes of this seminar, speculative design and prototyping is not seen as just a method to be applied, but as a speculative method that is ‘a situated becoming-with the researched’ (Wilkie, 2018: 348) and presents ‘critical thought translated into materiality’ (Dunne and Raby, 2013: 35). As such students will be asked to engaged with an experimental approach to method, that further reflects an epistemic orientation emphasising performativity and entanglement. The seminar will zoom in on approaches to speculative design and prototyping, and it endeavours to ‘test’ their applicability and potency in organizational future making. To do so, the seminar will introduce selected recent debates on organizational future making and speculative design, which reflect underlying ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. By focusing on organization, the seminar seeks to tap into how speculative design can be a way to critically inquire into and research organizational futures and everyday organizing. Based on these debates, students will be asked to conduct a small fieldwork on everyday organization and organizing, which builds the ground for exploring organizational futures through developing speculative prototypes upon their material and findings. To do that, the seminar will work with speculative design approaches and experiment with speculative prototyping throughout the session in the seminar.