Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

How can we understand culture, cultural productions and the arts through notions and theories of organization?

Following up on the winter term’s introductory course to Organization, Society and the Arts, the course more systematically investigates the organizational nature of forms and processes of artistic production and cultural labour.

To do so, the course is loosely structured through different understandings of organization and what they help us see, think and understand. These understandings range from classic theorizations of organization as formal organizations structured through hierarchy, membership and organizational purpose via notions of processual, ‘partial’ and networked organization to understandings of organizing as spatially, affectively or atmospherically constituted.

Each approach will be discussed theoretically and empirically by bringing together conceptual texts with empirical studies or examples.

The students are expected to prepare the sessions by engaging with the preparatory literature uploaded on mystudy. They will also be asked to prepare specific sessionsn (in groups) by way of case-based presentations and reflections.

The course will take place weekly. Sessions entail input by the lecturers, class discussion, project work and group work phases, presentations and break-out sessions.

Students learn to think about the field of the arts and cultural production in terms of organization and the different forms it can take. They learn to bring these registers of organiaztional analysis to the study of art and culture.

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