Seminar: Design and organisations

Project seminar; Winter 2001/2002
Aachen University of Applied Science
12 weeks (with 18 hours per week)

Aim

This seminar examined the potential of design for inhouse communication and management processes. It was reflecting the role of effetive communication tools in regard to an ongoing leadership discourse and formal organisations.

Objectives

Participants in the course were supposed to research and collect relevant material and look out for "their" ideas of designer's role in that context.

Outcome

Students developed summaries and presentations about particular topics.

Weblog
http://seminare.design.fh-aachen.de/orgadesign/

References

»The corrosion of character«, Richard Sennett, 1999
»Funktionen und Folgen formaler Organisation«, Niklas Luhmann, Duncker & Humblot, 1994
»In over our heads - the mental demands of modern life«, Robert Kegan, Harvard University Press, 1998
»Organisational Memory«, Franz Lehner, Hanser Verlag, 2000
»The construction of social reality«, John R. Searle, 1997
»BMBF Studie: Management von nicht-explizitem Wissen«, Hrsg. FAW Ulm / bmb+f, 2001, http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de/deutsch/publikationen/bmbf-studie/