Interventions and dissonance in industrial research
Dressing the Emperor in New Clothes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2181986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne Stang Våland (Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author), Trine Pallesen (0000-0001-8844-9336, Copenhagen Business School), Camilla Hedegaard Møller (Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17530350.2024.2376628 |
| OpenAlex | W4401878098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article describes the efforts of an ethnographically trained architect, employed as an industrial researcher in an architectural firm, as she tests ways of being relevant to both scholarly and business audiences. Drawing on the STS-inspired concept sorting attachments, the study illustrates how the industrial researcher aims to handle implicit friction inherent in the industrial research framework, while at the same time introducing frictions by her interventions in the firm’s practices. While frictions may simply be disruptive to this type of collaboration, they also hold the potential for creating what Stark calls a sense of dissonance – moments in which competing criteria of worth allow the firm to create new business opportunities. We investigate the industrial researcher’s efforts in three specific moments of interventions, in which she tests different ways of engaging with the diverging agendas and interests present in the firm. The study demonstrates that it is when the industrial researcher joins a design team and adopts their task, their purpose and problems, while at the same time mobilising conceptual tools from her own academic practice that we can observe the creation of new ways of working in architectural practice and new ways of conducting ethnographic fieldwork
Ancient history · Clothing · Cognitive dissonance · Emperor · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · History · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Shaping technology/building society
Organizational Ethnography
The Sense of Dissonance
The reflective practitioner
Science Observed
The Social construction of technological systems
Fast Capitalism
Representing and Intervening
Risky business
Making the Familiar Strange
Frontiers of Capital
Contested Commensuration
Critical Accountability
Sorting Attachments
Disturbing Observations as a Basis for Collaborative Research
Description as Intervention
This is what we got, what would you like?’
Friction by Machine
The developments in ethnographic studies of organising
Designing Human Practices
Designs on the Contemporary
How to take sides
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market
The -ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |