OrganizingCulture
THE ART MUSEUM AS SITE OFORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
A MOK MEETS C&O SEMINAR05.11.2024 - 09.11.2024AT MUDAM LUXEMBOURG
In cooperation with MUDAM Luxembourg, this course investigates the organizational challenges that art museums face and how to respond to them. Students of culture and organization from Lüneburg and St.Gallen will have the unique opportunity to empirically engage with a leading art museum and the wider institutional landscape of organizing art and culture. Taking a closer look behind the scenes, students explore the museum’s processes, technologies and atmospheres of organizing, engage with its curators, technicians, administrators, educators and managers, and develop an exhibition on the museum as site of organizational and cultural change.
Schedule
Monday, November 4th
19.00 Joint welcome dinner
Tuesday, November 5th: Group building, preliminary theses, first investigations
9.45 Get together at MUDAM
10.00-11.00 Welcome, Introduction
11.00-12.00 Group building around themes (for group exploration and analysis)
12.00-13.00 Lunch (in groups)
13.00-14.30 Tour of the house
14.30-16.00 Groups discuss their preparatory papers and develop theses on their theme(s)
16.00-16.45 Presenting and discussing theses (all)
16.45-17.15 Break
17.15-19.00 Introduction to fieldwork, preparing fieldwork
Wednesday, November 6th: Fieldwork I
9.45 Get-together (all)
10.00-18.00 Interviews, participant observations, ‘desk research’ (in groups; inside and outside of MUDAM); feedback discussions with lecturers (in groups)
18.00-19.00 Get-together, reflections and emergent questions
Thursday, November 7th: Fieldwork II/analysis
9.45 Get-together (all)
10.00-15.00 Interviews, participant observations, ‘desk research’ (in groups; inside and outside of MUDAM); feedback discussions with lecturers (in groups)
15.00- Get-together; discussing analytical questions; laying out the empirical material and conducting the analysis (to be continued into the evening)
Friday, November 8th: exhibition day
9.45 Get-together
10.00-11.00 Completing the analysis
11.00-15.00 Preparing the exhibits (lunch in groups and self-organized)
15.00-17.00 Exhibition of findings
17.00-18.30 Reflections, feedback, wrap-up
19.00- Farewell dinner
