TY - JOUR

T1 - The production of educational space

T2 - Heterotopia and the business university

AU - Beyes, Timon

AU - Michels, Christoph

PY - 2011/11

Y1 - 2011/11

N2 - This article responds to recent calls for rethinking management education and fostering a spatial understanding of educational practices. We propose to introduce Foucault’s notion of heterotopic space and the spatial thought of Lefebvre into the debate about the current and future state of business schools. In particular, we conceptually and empirically discuss the potential for understanding space in a way that addresses its productive force, its multiplicity and its inherent contradictions. Using the example of an experimental teaching project dedicated to the conception and physical design of a city of the future, we reflect upon the possibility of the emergence of ‘other’, heterotopic spaces within an institution of management learning. Our findings suggest that spatial interventions facilitate critically affirmative engagement with the business school by offering an imaginative approach to management education.

AB - This article responds to recent calls for rethinking management education and fostering a spatial understanding of educational practices. We propose to introduce Foucault’s notion of heterotopic space and the spatial thought of Lefebvre into the debate about the current and future state of business schools. In particular, we conceptually and empirically discuss the potential for understanding space in a way that addresses its productive force, its multiplicity and its inherent contradictions. Using the example of an experimental teaching project dedicated to the conception and physical design of a city of the future, we reflect upon the possibility of the emergence of ‘other’, heterotopic spaces within an institution of management learning. Our findings suggest that spatial interventions facilitate critically affirmative engagement with the business school by offering an imaginative approach to management education.

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - Digital media

KW - Digitale Kultur

KW - Digitale Kulturen

KW - Medientheorie

KW - Medienwissenschaften

KW - Medienwissenschaft

KW - Medienkultur

KW - Medienkulturen

KW - netzkultur

KW - neue Medien

KW - Soziale Medien

KW - digital Culture

KW - digital cultures

KW - media culture

KW - media cultures

KW - media studies

KW - media theory

KW - net culture

KW - new media

KW - social media

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80555146632&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1350507611400001

DO - 10.1177/1350507611400001

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 42

SP - 521

EP - 536

JO - Management Learning

JF - Management Learning

SN - 1461-7307

IS - 5

ER -