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En­rico Mac­ciò

Ph.d. 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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