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16. juni 2012
Research Workshop - The building as object and as project
Martin Lønborg-Jensen
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.
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.