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Abstract

In this article, we discuss and argue for the value of working with strategic design in organizational settings through inventive research practices rooted in co-design and design anthropology. More specifically, we propose a process of collaborative experimentation staged as a series of events that establish relations between everyday organizational perspectives and practices and organizational strategic documents. We base our analytical discussions and reflections on a research project carried out in the organizational setting of a labour union. We describe how a programme–experiment informed design research approach, driven by and reliant on collaborative explorations, provides a scaffold for unlocking organizational strategic management visions and goals in interaction with transformational perspectives on organizational practices. We frame our approach as a research strategy of working the organizational setting, which focuses on staging dialogues between the experimental and the managerial. Such a disposition, we argue, offers important alternatives to management literatures’ current approaches to strategic design research.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Royal Danish Academy
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Strategic design research: Co-designing organizational transformation from within
Artifact 8, 18.1 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1386/art_00018_1
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Keyword(s): co-design; design anthropology; experimental design research; practice-based design research; programmatic design research; strategic design

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