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En­rico Mac­ciò

PhD fellow

Subjects
Organisation Innovation Qualitative methods Ethics Sociology

Primary research areas

Temporalities, Rhythms, Slowness

In contemporary societies speed is central throughout several dominions of life. Grand challenges and wicked problems, technology and innovation, social life and personal development: the cult of speed permeates all, imposing accelerated paces. Yet is speed the right path? Or can we imagine different temporalities and rhythms in organizing--+

Craft

Craft practices carry on traditional knowledge and know-how. Far from being a sector anchored to the past, it brings forward different configurations of technology, innovation, and temporalities. In connecting identity, communities, and history, do craft shape alternative modes of being in and with the world that we can get lessons from?

Games and Gamification

As games have been around societies for several centuries, today's game industry – in different shapes – stands as one of the largest CCIs, and the use of games and gamified solutions slips through several life dominions, be it in an exploitative manner or not. As they are now so present in people's lives, what games are and can be in our society?

It is about the journey, not the destination.

Temporalities and Rhythms 

In late-modern and capitalist-advanced societies, everything appears to be accelerated and fast paced. Grand challenges and wicked problems – such as climate, economic, and political crises – similarly require fast actions. Whilst speed has been celebrated throughout the past century and it is considered a virtue to be cultivated, in the past decades new interest emerged in regard to a slower approach to life, as, for example, is the case of the Slow Food Movement.   

 In my research I am interested in the relevance of temporalities and rhythms in the configuration of organizations and organizing. Trough the study of craft organizations and entrepreneurs, I am exploring how a different rhythm – and particularly slowness – raise ethic, aesthetic, political, sociotechnical, and epistemological implications, where slowness is enacted as a mode of being in, relate to, and engage with the world and organizing, privileging processes over quick outcomes. 

Recent research projects

HEPHAESTUS

The Hephaestus project aims to research, preserve and innovate craft sectors to deliver a cutting-edge, creative, and sustainable technology-driven economy based on cultural heritage.
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