Here are a few to get you started. Full ‘Book of Abstracts’ to be released on Monday 15th August.
Arts-based Community Development Abstracts
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The artistic studio: an ongoing community art building experience: An ongoing artistic project
Cecilie Meltzer, Assistant Professor in Art-based Learning, University College of Oslo and Akershus, Norway
Ellen Speert, ATR-BC, REAT, Director of the California Center for Creative Renewal
This ongoing AoMO community project is designed to recognize, engage and empower the sensory and emotional intangible responses of individuals from diverse backgrounds, as they come together to express their sense of self and sense of place and to make these elements tangible.
The intention of the project is to give participants space for individual creative expression as well as a longitudinal experience of how creative processes evolve. This will be facilitated through a space where you can create and reflect; a place where the use of different materials can express and embrace your experiences from the conference.
The project will be located in the heart of the conference, both physically and emotionally. This will provide you with the opportunity to modify the “self-sculpture” as the conference strengthens responses evolving among you as AoMO participants.
An introduction to the ‘Artistic Studio’ will take place on Thursday as part of the informal opening of the conference. You will have the opportunity to collect your self-sculpture materials and then contribute to the community art building experience throughout the conference programme. Please visit and re-visit us and your self-sculpture. On Sunday morning, we will hold a debrief over breakfast in the garage – providing you with an opportunity to see, feel and share in each other’s experiences and understand a little more about the evolution of the community installation.
Pre-Conference Masterclass
If you are arriving in Bled early for this year’s AoMO conference then why not immerse yourself into the AoMO vibe sooner rather than later!
Join Monica Redden and Frankie Armstrong in Finding the Voice of Leadership Archetypes from 10am-4.30pm on Thursday 1st September.
The event is free to all AoMO delegates – just show up at the IEDC for 9.45am and get started! Wear comfortable clothes!
Registration is desired but not compulsory. If you have any questions please email Monica@monicaredden.com!
Keynote Speaker: Prof Phillip Mirvis on Designing Experiences
Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist whose studies and private practice concerns large-scale organizational change, the character of the workforce and workplace, and business leadership in society. In areas of personal, group, and leadership development, Mirvis has designed corporate “consciousness raising” experiences involving theater and the arts, orchestrated rituals for merging companies, and led outdoor team building in the Rockies, Pyrenees, Alps, and Himalayas. He has led corporate journeys and community service efforts in the urban U.S., Paris, London, Dubai, and Sao Paulo, in rural India, China, Greenland, Tanzania, Thailand, and Vietnam, and among aboriginal peoples in Borneo, Paraguay, and Australia, plus stakeholder dialogues on environmental and socio-economic issues.
Prof Mirvis will present a keynote on ‘Designing Experiences’ on Friday 2nd September 2016 at 5.15pm @ IEDC, Bled, Slovenia
The Age of Loneliness
Goffman (1959) taught us how we could understand organizations as theatre. In his academic work Steve Taylor has been more interested in how plays are used within organizations (e.g. Nissley, Taylor, & Houden, 2004; Steven S. Taylor, 2000, 2003, 2008) as an example of a much larger movement of the use of arts-based methods within organizations (cf Steven S. Taylor & Ladkin, 2009). Alongside his academic work, Steve have written plays as a different way of thinking – even theorizing (Steven S. Taylor, 2000) – about organizations. Believing that artistic understanding embraces its inherent subjectivity and is well suited for making meaning in complex phenomena such as organizations.
Steve has debuted a play at AoMO conferences since 2002 and this year is no different! Saturday September 3rd 2016 sees the inaugural performance of The Age of Loneliness. In The Age of Loneliness, June, a young playwright struggles with what comes after her success with her play, The Adventures of Yahweh and Kapital (seen previously in, The Invisible Foot). Can Yahweh and Kapital get along, what sort of relationship will they have, can they survive in a post-growth world, should she even keep writing the play? If this truly is the end of the neo-liberal consensus, what comes next? Can an omnipotent, immortal die?
Steve Taylor’s Play at the Art of Management and Organization Conferences
The Age of Loneliness. 2016. Bled, Slovenia.
Through the Reading Glasses. 2014. Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Invisible Foot. 2012. York, England.
Cow Going Abstract. 2008. Banff, Canada.
Blasphemy & Doubt. 2006. Krakow, Poland.
Ties That Bind. 2004. Paris, France.
Soft Targets. 2002. London, England.
References
Goffman, Erving. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday.
Nissley, Nick, Taylor, Steven S., & Houden, Linda. (2004). The politics of performance in organizational theatre-based training and interventions. Organization Studies, 25(5), 817-840.
Taylor, Steven S. (2000). Aesthetic knowledge in academia: Capitalist pigs at the academy of management. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(3), 304-328.
Taylor, Steven S. (2003). Knowing in your gut and in your head: Doing theater and my underlying epistemology of communication. Management Communication Quarterly, 17(2), 272-279.
Taylor, Steven S. (2008). Theatrical Performance as Unfreezing: Ties That Bind at the Academy of Management. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(4), 398-406.
Taylor, Steven S., & Ladkin, Donna. (2009). Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 8(1), 55-69.
Your contribution to AoMO2018
If your contribution to AoMO2018 requires anything other than access to the usual projector, computer and PowerPoint software in a conventional seminar room set up then you need to complete a RRF (Resource Requirement Form_) and send it to jenna.aomo@gmail.com before April 3rd 2018.
Even if you have sent this information to your stream convenor I need you to send it directly to me using the Resource Requirement Form. I need this information by the 3rd April 2018, at the very latest in order to compile a draft program whilst I am in Brighton. This is vital information when planning a complex and creative conference like AoMO.
Thank you all for your co-operation in advance
Jenna
Full Paper Deadline 1st August 2016
AoMO confere
nces do not require delegates to submit a full conference paper, however, for those of you who need to produce a full paper in order to secure funding the deadline will be 1st August 2016.
All full papers will be included in the published conference proceedings post-conference but only abstracts will be made available during the conference.
Please submit full conference papers to aomo2016@gmail.com. All emails should have the titled ‘Full Paper [author(s) name]. Please send as Word documents in order for the files to be easily integrated for publication. Files names should be in the format [author(s) name].doc
Artist in Residence & Bursary Awards
Dear All
After careful peer-review we have now awarded the Heather Höpfl Artist in Residence scholarship and the financial bursaries for 2016.
We received an unprecedented number of applications to both awards and the quality was outstanding. Due to our very limited financial resources we were only able to make awards to a fraction of those who applied. If you did apply for a bursary award and you have not been contacted by AoMO then this means your application was unsuccessful this year.
Congratulations to those who were successful.
Next week will see the official announcement of AoMO’s 2016 Heather Höpfl Artist in Residence… so stay tuned!
Jenna, Steve T & Steve L
Important AoMO Update from Jenna
Dear AoMO
So, today was my first day at the helm of organising AoMO 2016 and as you can imagine there is lots to be getting to grips with; not least budgets, program, catering, mailing, resources and most of all making this conference as AoMOy as we have all come to expect!
To make that happen requires lots of hard work (and late nights) to ensure I have a complete understanding of your individual requirements. Ian and the IEDC team have been doing a sterling job, but now I need to get up to speed as quickly as possible!
I think the best way I can ensure this happens is if we do the following:
1. Please copy aomo2016@gmail.com into any correspondence about the conference.
2. If you have sent an email to either Ian Sutherland or the aomo2016@gmail.com and are awaiting a response could you please resend to aomo2016@gmail.com immediately.
In return, I promise to respond to every email within 1 week.
I will be in Slovenia from the 16th-19th June when Ian and I will be going over the program, resource requirements and scheduling in fine grained detail.
Could I also encourage everyone who has yet to register to do so asap and for those of you who have yet to pay the invoice from the IEDC to look to make those arrangements as a matter of urgency. Accommodation in the close vicinity is also sparse in the summer as Bled is a tourist destination. The IEDC are currently holding a number of discounted rooms at local hotels for AoMO delegate use but there is only so long these offers will be available for!
Let’s get booking guys…. we have just 3 months to go!
Really looking forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new AoMOers in September.
Best wishes and keep in touch
Jenna
Apologies to those of you who are unable to join us at the 8th Art of Management & Organization conference on the 1st-4th September 2016 in Lake Bled, Slovenia, we are in the process of compiling a conference delegate mailing list but for now this is the best way for me to contact you all.
Important News AoMO 2016
Dear AoMOers
It is with great pleasure (and a hint of regret) that we can announce Dr Ian Sutherland’s appointment as Dean of the School of Music, Memorial University, in Canada. Ian is an influential thinker in our community and it is wonderful to see his versatility, creativity and management skill being recognised by such a prestigious institution.
Ian will officially relinquish his current post as Deputy Dean at the IEDC in Bled, Slovenia on July 4th 2016. Consequently, and with much regret, given his new responsibilities and the practicalities of a transatlantic move, Ian will be unable to attend AoMO2016 in Slovenia.
In light of this, Jenna will step-in and from June 1st 2016 be the lead organiser of AoMO2016. The conference will run, as planned, from the 1st-4th September 2016 at the IEDC in Bled, Slovenia. Ian and the IEDC team have an amazing schedule of events lined up for us and we would like to thank Ian, in particular, for his continued commitment to the planning and organisation of the AoMO 2016 conference.
Please continue to use the aomo2016@gmail.com email address for all conference correspondence. Ian and Jenna have set up a period of hand-over and hope that any disruption or inconvenience to the AoMO community will be kept to a minimum. We thank you for your patience during this period of transition and look forward to seeing you all at Lake Bled in September. For those who have not yet registered and made accommodation arrangements, we strongly urge you to do so at your earliest convenience. You can find further information and the online registration at the IEDC conference website at the following link:
https://www.iedc.si/about-iedc/centres/conferences/8th-aomo-conference
So, congratulations to Ian – we wish him much luck and he has promised to consider the possibility of hosting an AoMO conference in Canada… we are going to hold you to that Ian!
Best wishes
Jenna, Steve T and Steve L
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