I’m particularly interested in the link between architecture and organization: between the organizational design process and client organization, on the one hand, and the architectural design process and the architect, on the other. In order to explore this link and its implications, I study the increasing interest in formalized end user participation in building projects, as a vehicle to inform practice and induce change. In these engagement processes, a substantial group of client representatives are invited into the architectural design process to provide relevant input about the activities that the future building is to accommodate. Here, users are given the chance to influence not only the design of the new building, but also the rationale upon which the design is being based: a rationale that may reflect the current organizational design, while concurrently designate an organizational redesign. The structure indicates that organizational design and architectural design might constitute one another in a mutual relationship. The potentiality and implications of such a reciprocal relationship is the main focus of my research.

Stang Våland, M. og Justesen, L. (2012): Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). I Justesen, L. og Waldorff, S. B. (red.): Strategier i praksis: En casesamling. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur

Stang Våland, M. og Lisby, M. (2012): Aarstiderne. I Justesen, L. og Waldorff, S. B. (red.): Strategier i praksis: En casesamling. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur

 

Stang Våland, M. og Frankel, C. (2011): Organisationsforandring: processer, relationer og netværk. I Frankel, C. og Schmidt, K.: Organisationsanalyse, København: Samfundslitteratur

Stang Våland, M. (2011): Between organisation and architecture: end-user participation in design, in International Journal of Work, Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 4, No. 1

Stang Våland, M. og Schmidt, S. H. (2010): Længere væk og ekstremt tæt på, i Arkitekten 10 (112)

Stang Våland, M. og Weiss, K. (2010): Ledelse i en brydningstid: Tre lederprofiler i dansk arkitektur, i Arkitekten 10 (112)

Stang Våland, M. (2010): “We chose the proposal, in which we could see ourselves”: End User Participation in Architectural Competitions, in Rönn, M. and Andersson, J. (eds.): The Architectural Competition, Axl Books

Stang Våland, M. og Bjerring, S. (2010): 'Hvad siger de?' Et forsøg på at indkredse centrale tematikker i arkitektonisk praksis', Arkitekten 6 (112)

Stang Våland, M. (2010): Organized end user participation in the architectural design process: prospect or pain?, in Conditions, Scandinavian magazine on architecture and urbanism, Issue 4

Stang Våland, M. (2010): What we talk about when we talk about space: End User Participation between Processes of Organizational and Architectural Design, Ph.D. Dissertation, Copenhagen Business School

Stang Våland, M. (2009): End User Participation as an Input to Shape the Brief in Architectural Competitions: a threefold translation process, in Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 21 (2/3)

Stang Våland, M. (2007): En Dobbelt Design Proces: Introduktion til et par centrale udfordringer og mulige ressourcer i mødet mellem organisation og arkitektur, i Engelhardt, R., Mehlsen, C. and Stjernfeldt, F. (eds.): Tankestreger: Tværvidenskabelige nybrud, DPU's forlag

Stang Våland, M. (2006): Designing Architecture: a potential kinder egg adventure, in Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 19 (4)