CLIBYG NEWS

Research Workshop - The building as object and as project

Martin L�nborg-Jensen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

An invitation to a research workshop
21-23 November 2012
Near Copenhagen, Denmark

Organizers: Kristian Kreiner (kk.ioa@cbs.dk), Jan Mouritsen (jm.om@cbs.dk), Lise Justesen (lj.ioa@cbs.dk) and Kjell Tryggestad (kt.ioa@cbs.dk)

Invitation
The Network 'Management Studies of the Building Process' invites you to participate in a research workshop. The workshop is a follow up on our workshop ‘Bringing the building back in’ from November 2011 where we discussed a future research agenda. Our aim this year is similar but with a little twist. While the previous workshop was geared towards the exploration of ideas for a future research agenda, the present workshop is geared towards exploitation of those ideas in the form of papers and publications. To this end we have made arrangements for a special issue with Construction Management and Economics, which is a highly recognized journal in the field of building research.

The research agenda
We (still) suggest that the building should be brought back in, in the form both of a project and an object. By looking at it as a project we acknowledge that it is ‘unfinished’, in formation, under construction, etc. This will bring to the foreground the frictions and restrictions of the building as an projected (imagined) object that emerge in the continuous interplay (competitive as well as collaborative) within a dynamic array of stakeholders. New stakeholders emerge, new interests are discovered, and new compromises and equilibriums are negotiated. We need to understand how such interplays can be understood, how they are mediated through various material, cognitive, and visual artifacts, and how they are conditioned by the conception of the building as a future object.

We aim to produce new knowledge by exploring the specific interaction of the building as object and as project. The project will become reflected in the object, like the object will be reflected in the project and the ways in which processes of managing people, stakeholders, values, time, risk etc. will transpire. By pursuing such an aim, we also revolt against the tradition to consider management as a generic process, i.e. that the productive task, the construction of a physical building, is an epiphenomenon to the task of managing the project. On the contrary, we suggest that the “nature” of the productive task will, in important manners, influence the ways and means of managing their design and implementation. The question is, in which ways, how much, etc.

Fotos fra "Constructions Matter"

S�ren Houen Schmidt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

Conference: Constructions Matter 2010

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
The building process, from start to finish, is an obscure blend of dualities and supplements. For example, the process seems to combine abstract visions and physical realities, a sense of aesthetics and economic constraints, multiple pasts and multiple futures, local conditions and general influences. The building process is often described as complex, uncertain and ambiguous.

Therefore it is not surprising that building an understanding of the building process requires a theorization sensitive to multiplicity, volatility and transience. How may this provide grounds for a generalized or shared approach?

The conference intends to provide a celebratory ground for sharing results of research projects that have the building process, or parts thereof, as their empirical focus. The conference is also an occasion for discussing what we may strive to know – and what cannot be illuminated through research studies and analysis.

CONFERENCE THEMES
The conference is organized around a number of themes, each forming a conference within the conference.

Keynote speakers
Professor Richard Boland Jr., Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Professor Jan Mouritsen, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School

General conference track
Conveners: Lise Justesen, Kristian Kreiner, Jan Mouritsen

Conferences within the conference

Architectural Competitions (Convener: Joris van Wezemael, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Business and Management Research and Construction Management (Convener: Graham Winch, University of Manchester)
Design Thinking: Exploring Interfaces between Design and Management (Conveners: Martin Kornberger, University of Technology, Sydney; Copenhagen Business School and Marianne Stang Vaaland, CBS)
Management Practices and Digital Designs (Convener: Jennifer Whyte, University of Reading, Co-convener: Chris Harty, University of Reading)
Process Integration (Convener: Jan Bröchner, Chalmers University of Technology)
Projects of Innovation: Innovation in Projects (Conveners: Stewart Clegg & Tyrone Pitsis, University of Technology, Sydney)

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will take place in Copenhagen, commencing late afternoon May 5 2010 and closing late afternoon May 7 2010. The program will cover parallel paper sessions, plenary addresses, and plenary discussions. In form, the conference will be academic, and in style of interaction, it will be scholarly.

DEADLINES
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (5-7 pages): December 15, 2009 / SUBMISSION IS CLOSED
Acceptance of papers: February 1, 2010
Deadline for final papers: April 20, 2010

Please note that registration for at least one author of each paper designated to make the presentation at the conference is required.

LAYOUT FORMAT FOR PAPERS
Suggested, but non-obligatory layout format

REGISTER / PAPER SUBMISSION
Register for the conference

PRICE
340 €
The conference fee covers full participation in the conference as well as lunches, coffee and tea breaks, and a conference dinner.

PAYMENT
Payment for the conference is administered by the Copenhagen Business School conference unit. All major credit cards are accepted for payment. A special registration for this purpose alone is required and will be requested when entering the payment site.
Pay for the conference

CONTACT
For more information, or for suggesting additional conference themes, please contact:
Jan Mouritsen, CBS: jm.om@cbs.dk
Kristian Kreiner, CBS: kk.ioa@cbs.dk
Maj Britt Aronstein, CBS: ma.ioa@cbs.dk

What we talk about when we talk about space

Redaktionen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

Marianne Stang Våland has defended her ph.d.-thesis "What we talk about when we talk about space: end user participation between processes of organizational and architectural design"

The thesis explores the link between two design processes that have traditionally been considered separate and sequential: the organizational and the architectural design processes. The study is based on the increasing interest in space and architecture as a potential strategic vehicle in contemporary management, an interest that is shared by some scholars within organization studies. However, only few research contributions are based on empirical studies of the processes involved.