Sub-theme 52: Creating Organizational Life: Embodied Art, Aesthetics and Design

Convenors:
Wendelin M. Küpers, School of Management, Massey University, New Zealand
Arja Ropo, School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland
Matt Statler, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Space
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Astrid Huopalainen
Organizing the fashion factory – Case Finnish catwalk
Ellen Loots
An exploration of an organization form: Artists' residences
Ray Griffin
The Flaneur: Loitering through fun workplaces
Session II: Thursday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Creative
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Steven Taylor
Craft mastery: Towards a theory of artful management action
Tuomas Kuronen
Aesthetics of knowledge in organizations
Damian Ruth
Academic matter and the office as a site of constitutive entanglement
Session III: Thursday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Aesthetics and Leadership
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Erika Sauer
Shame as an aesthetic leadership practice
Francois Duhamel, Alexander Niess and Fabien De Geuser
The meaning of aesthetical management
Session IV: Friday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Living Work Design
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Sören Augustinsson
Art and workplace: New space-in-between that gives opportunities for sensemaking and re-design of the organisational scene
Donatella De Paoli and Arja Ropo
Leadership in an open and flexible office space design
Anne Pässilä, Pekka Korhonen and Allan Owens
Who has the main role in the intersection of arts and organizational life?
Session V: Friday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Embodied Design
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Laura Sinisalo
The aesthetic field of leadership in a design firm
Karen Dale and Yvonne Latham
Re-creating organizational design: Embodiment, materiality and the social/political
Session VI: Saturday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Emotion
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Norbert Steigenberger
Sensemaking, sensegiving, and emotions in organizational change processes
Frank Martela
Caring connections – The art of embodied mutuality in organizational life
Kätlin Pulk and Tuomas Santeri Ketola
Meaning of change: A source of resistance
Session VII: Saturday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, H-535 – Chydenia
Organization & Final Round
Chair: Arja Ropo, Matt Statler and Wendelin M. Küpers
Claudia Schnugg and Luc Peters
Silence & Geiselnahme. Einstürzende Neubauten and organization.
Tatjana Byrne and Soo Hee Lee
Competing discourse on the aesthetics of contemporary dance in the UK: The impact of changing cultural policy on community dance organisations
Perttu Salovaara
The method of walking the field path