Seminar with Dave Randall: Priorities, priorities: Good controlling and the normative order
As part of the seminar series on the concept of organization, Dave Randall has been invited to give a lecture: Priorities, priorities: Good controlling and the normative order
Date and time: Monday 26 January at 15:00-17:00 at Kilevej 14A, in room K3.54 (Det Hvide Mødelokale)
In his lecture, Dave Randall will present findings from the well-known, long-term, ethnographic studies of air traffic control work in the UK. The studies entailed interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and sociologists. In doing so, he will illuminate the foundational, but under-examined, issue of how the ordered practices and techniques used by controllers produce organisational reality. He will illuminate this day-to-day, routine production of order by contrasting it with conventional assumptions concerning the determining role of institutional frameworks.
We have invited Dave to give this lecture in our seminar series on concepts of organization to open an empirically informed discussion on normative order and what criteria may reasonably be deployed to determine that a certain order counts as an instance of organization.
Dave Randall was - before his (notional) retirement - a Principal lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has continued with academic and consultancy work since then and is now a senior professor at the University of Siegen in Germany and visiting professor at Linnaeus University in Sweden. He is co-author of four monographs inclusing 'Fieldwork For Design' with Richard Harper and Mark Rouncefield, and 'Choice' with Richard Harper and Wes Sharrock, and four edited collections. He has published in excess of 200 peers reviewed papers and has undertaken consultancy work with organizations such as Vodafone; HItachi; Orange; Microsoft; a hospital trust; Xerox; and the Children's Society. His primary interest lies in ethnographic practice in the context of CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) and HCI (Human Computer Interaction).
This seminar is organized by Christian Frankel and Kjeld Schmidt. Please drop Christian and email (cf.ioa@cbs.dk) if you plan to attend.