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End User Participation as an Input to Shape the Brief in Architetural Competitions
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End user participation as a vehicle for co-designing buildings and organizations
Projects
 | PhD FellowMarianne Stang VålandCenter for Management Studies of the Building ProcessPhone: +45 2611 1184E-mail: msv.ioa@cbs.dk |
PhD project: End user participation as a vehicle for co-designing buildings and organizations
The project explores the potential link between the architectural design process and the architect profession on the one hand, and the organizational design process and the manager, on the other. In order to unfold and discuss this relationship, organized end user participation serves as the central vehicle through which the link might be constructed.
In these processes, a substantial number of client representatives, primarily staff members, are invited into the architectural design process to provide the architect with relevant input about the organizational context that the future building is expected to accommodate. Such a setup indicates that end users are given an opportunity to influence not only the design of the new building, but also the rationale upon which the design is being based – a rationale that may reflect the current organizational design and at the same time designate an organizational redesign. The idea seems to be that organizational design and architectural design might constitute one another in a mutual relationship, and it is the potentiality and implications of such a relationship that is in focus in the project.
Theoretically, these processes and the input they might provide to designing architecture as well as organization disclose several phenomena that might affect contemporary architects and managers alike. In order to discuss how such processes emerge, interact and potentially get mutually influential, concepts that derive from sensemaking in organization (e.g. Weick 1979, 1995, 2001, 2003, Weick et al. 2005) and actor network theory (e.g. Callon and Latour 1981, Callon 1986, Latour 1986, 1991, 1999, 2006) have served as primary sources of inspiration.
The project takes an empirical point of departure by studying the planning and emergence of two contemporary office buildings: Danish municipality Hillerød’s new town hall and Danish architectural firm Arkitema’s new domicile. In these projects, different types of end user participation activities have been applied as an approach to induct significant developments within the organizational design – in the context of designing architecture. The project runs from February 2006 through September 2009.
For further information about the project: +45 26111184 or msv.ioa@cbs.dk
The project explores the potential link between the architectural design process and the architect profession on the one hand, and the organizational design process and the manager, on the other. In order to unfold and discuss this relationship, organized end user participation serves as the central vehicle through which the link might be constructed.
In these processes, a substantial number of client representatives, primarily staff members, are invited into the architectural design process to provide the architect with relevant input about the organizational context that the future building is expected to accommodate. Such a setup indicates that end users are given an opportunity to influence not only the design of the new building, but also the rationale upon which the design is being based – a rationale that may reflect the current organizational design and at the same time designate an organizational redesign. The idea seems to be that organizational design and architectural design might constitute one another in a mutual relationship, and it is the potentiality and implications of such a relationship that is in focus in the project.
Theoretically, these processes and the input they might provide to designing architecture as well as organization disclose several phenomena that might affect contemporary architects and managers alike. In order to discuss how such processes emerge, interact and potentially get mutually influential, concepts that derive from sensemaking in organization (e.g. Weick 1979, 1995, 2001, 2003, Weick et al. 2005) and actor network theory (e.g. Callon and Latour 1981, Callon 1986, Latour 1986, 1991, 1999, 2006) have served as primary sources of inspiration.
The project takes an empirical point of departure by studying the planning and emergence of two contemporary office buildings: Danish municipality Hillerød’s new town hall and Danish architectural firm Arkitema’s new domicile. In these projects, different types of end user participation activities have been applied as an approach to induct significant developments within the organizational design – in the context of designing architecture. The project runs from February 2006 through September 2009.
For further information about the project: +45 26111184 or msv.ioa@cbs.dk