[Air-L] CFP -- Design: Management: Organization -- 4th Art of Management Conference

[Ken Friedman]

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The fourth Art of Management Conference meets 
from September 9 to 12 at the Banff Center in 
Banff, Alberta, Canada.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm

This call invites papers and presentations for the stream on

Design: Management: Organization

The potential of design in management and 
organizations is now the focus of a growing body 
of knowledge in practice and theory. Theoretical 
results appear in books and journal articles, 
education programs, and research projects, while 
businesses of all kinds put the findings into 
practice, along with design firms, consulting 
firms, and universities.

Design is a practice of making. We realize design 
in many ways: as artefact, system, and 
experience. The complexity and seemingly endless 
potential of design is visible in fascinating and 
continuously evolving ways.

In this stream, we ask what design thinking can 
mean, examining how we can interpret and enact 
design thinking in thought, artifact, experience, 
and action.

We invite contributions to this stream from 
practitioners and scholars who explore the 
intersection of design, management, and 
organization. We are particularly interested in 
discovering how people engage design in 
management and organizational contexts. We 
welcome case study accounts from designers, 
design managers, general managers, and scholars 
in design theory and organization theory. We also 
welcome theoretical and conceptual presentations.

Many questions will interest participants in this 
stream: Why is design important to the future of 
management and organizational contexts? Can 
design help us to save organizations? How do 
design organizations enact design within their 
own management and organizational contexts? What 
is design management? Is there a space for poetic 
design in managerial and organizational contexts? 
We hope to explore design as creative practice, 
design as critical thinking, design as systems 
management, and design as Š

The conveners of the stream hope to develop the 
presentations from this stream into a special 
journal issue.

For papers, please submit abstracts of 500 words. 
For other presentations, we will accept any 
appropriate media submission.

Please send submissions to

Dr. Laurene Vaughan at

<laurene.vaughan at rmit.edu.au>

with a copy to

Ms. Jane Malabar at

<artofman at essex.ac.uk>

The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2008.

For more information on the conference, visit URL

http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm

Stream Convenors:

Prof. Ken Friedman
Norwegian School of Management, Oslo
Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen

<ken.friedman at bi.no>

Dr. Laurene Vaughan
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia

<laurene.vaughan at rmit.edu.au>