SCOS Update: February
15/02, 2012 | WORKSHOPS
Only one item in February:
1) A series of three workshops, making out a research cluster in aesthetics, emotions and arts-based approaches to inquiry
1) A series of three workshops, making out a research cluster in aesthetics, emotions and arts-based approaches to inquiry
Item 1:
Research cluster in aesthetics, emotions and arts-based approaches to inquiry – A series of three workshops organised by Dr Margaret Page and Dr Louise Grisoni. Part-funded by the Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS)
These workshops introduce arts-based research methods to investigate:
– The visions and dreams of fairness and equality that participants bring to their organizational roles;
– The constraints they experience within a changing landscape; and
– Narratives developed to sustain purpose and identity.
A visual inquiry into changing narratives of diversity, equality, transition and change
Margaret Page | Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 13 February 2012
In this workshop participants will be introduced to visual inquiry as a methodology for investigating the complex meanings they bring to equality and diversity work and how they engage with change and transition in these in their organisational roles.
Tales of transition, a creative writing workshop
Louise Grisoni | UWE Business School, Bristol, 19 March 2012
This workshop will offer a space for developing new narratives of transition and change in relation to equality, diversity and social justice, and for reflection and research writing on the business potential of arts based inquiry, drawing from aesthetic techniques offered in the previous series.
A social dreaming workshop to explore dreams, visions and fantasies of diversity, equality and transformational change
Jacqueline Sirota | UWE Business School, Bristol, 23 April 2012
This workshop will introduce Social Dreaming as a methodology for accessing and understanding the emotional life and memory of public service organizations through the dreams of its members. Workshop participants will be invited to reflect on the changing meanings of diversity and equality suggested by dreams and emergent images and themes.
Registration
To register please visit the seminar web page.
Fees
£40 per workshop or £100 for all three
Concessions: £25 per workshop or £55 for all three
Where
Frenchay Campus,
UWE
Map and directions
Research cluster in aesthetics, emotions and arts-based approaches to inquiry – A series of three workshops organised by Dr Margaret Page and Dr Louise Grisoni. Part-funded by the Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS)
These workshops introduce arts-based research methods to investigate:
– The visions and dreams of fairness and equality that participants bring to their organizational roles;
– The constraints they experience within a changing landscape; and
– Narratives developed to sustain purpose and identity.
A visual inquiry into changing narratives of diversity, equality, transition and change
Margaret Page | Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 13 February 2012
In this workshop participants will be introduced to visual inquiry as a methodology for investigating the complex meanings they bring to equality and diversity work and how they engage with change and transition in these in their organisational roles.
Tales of transition, a creative writing workshop
Louise Grisoni | UWE Business School, Bristol, 19 March 2012
This workshop will offer a space for developing new narratives of transition and change in relation to equality, diversity and social justice, and for reflection and research writing on the business potential of arts based inquiry, drawing from aesthetic techniques offered in the previous series.
A social dreaming workshop to explore dreams, visions and fantasies of diversity, equality and transformational change
Jacqueline Sirota | UWE Business School, Bristol, 23 April 2012
This workshop will introduce Social Dreaming as a methodology for accessing and understanding the emotional life and memory of public service organizations through the dreams of its members. Workshop participants will be invited to reflect on the changing meanings of diversity and equality suggested by dreams and emergent images and themes.
Registration
To register please visit the seminar web page.
Fees
£40 per workshop or £100 for all three
Concessions: £25 per workshop or £55 for all three
Where
Frenchay Campus,
UWE
Map and directions