Organization, atmosphere, and digital technologies: Designing sensory order
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Organization, atmosphere, and digital technologies : Designing sensory order. / Jørgensen, Lydia; Holt, Robin.
in: Organization, Jahrgang 26, Nr. 5, 01.09.2019, S. 673-695.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Organization, atmosphere, and digital technologies
T2 - Designing sensory order
AU - Jørgensen, Lydia
AU - Holt, Robin
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - We argue technology and organization are inherently spatial phenomenon. We conceptualize this conjunction as atmosphere: a gathering of mood, human practice, material and environmental conditions, and values that has sufficient coherence and distinction to constitute a distinct interior. Atmospheres, however, are not entirely stable and present: the interior is porous to outside influence, and the interior is never wholly ordered. We show this through the study of digitally mediated architectural design practice. We find the technological mediation of atmospheres is constituted in sensory and affective spatial arrangements, and not in rationally calculated configurations of assets and goals. An atmosphere is inherently aesthetic. This allows us to gesture toward a definition of organization as technologically mediated spatial struggle to reconcile interior coherence with outward exposure.
AB - We argue technology and organization are inherently spatial phenomenon. We conceptualize this conjunction as atmosphere: a gathering of mood, human practice, material and environmental conditions, and values that has sufficient coherence and distinction to constitute a distinct interior. Atmospheres, however, are not entirely stable and present: the interior is porous to outside influence, and the interior is never wholly ordered. We show this through the study of digitally mediated architectural design practice. We find the technological mediation of atmospheres is constituted in sensory and affective spatial arrangements, and not in rationally calculated configurations of assets and goals. An atmosphere is inherently aesthetic. This allows us to gesture toward a definition of organization as technologically mediated spatial struggle to reconcile interior coherence with outward exposure.
KW - architecture
KW - Atmosphere
KW - organization
KW - phenomenology
KW - space
KW - technology
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068233344&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1350508419855698
DO - 10.1177/1350508419855698
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85068233344
VL - 26
SP - 673
EP - 695
JO - Organization
JF - Organization
SN - 1350-5084
IS - 5
ER -