---> Design: Management: Organization <--- ---> Call for Papers to the 4th Art of Management Conference <--- The fourth Art of Management Conference meets from September 9 to 12 at the Banff Center in Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm This call invites papers and presentations for the stream on Design: Management: Organization The potential of design in management and organizations is now the focus of a growing body of knowledge in practice and theory. Theoretical results appear in books and journal articles, education programs, and research projects, while businesses of all kinds put the findings into practice, along with design firms, consulting firms, and universities. Design is a practice of making. We realize design in many ways: as artefact, system, and experience. The complexity and seemingly endless potential of design is visible in fascinating and continuously evolving ways. In this stream, we ask what design thinking can mean, examining how we can interpret and enact design thinking in thought, artifact, experience, and action. We invite contributions to this stream from practitioners and scholars who explore the intersection of design, management, and organization. We are particularly interested in discovering how people engage design in management and organizational contexts. We welcome case study accounts from designers, design managers, general managers, and scholars in design theory and organization theory. We also welcome theoretical and conceptual presentations. Many questions will interest participants in this stream: Why is design important to the future of management and organizational contexts? Can design help us to save organizations? How do design organizations enact design within their own management and organizational contexts? What is design management? Is there a space for poetic design in managerial and organizational contexts? We hope to explore design as creative practice, design as critical thinking, design as systems management, and design as The conveners of the stream hope to develop the presentations from this stream into a special journal issue. For papers, please submit abstracts of 500 words. For other presentations, we will accept any appropriate media submission. Please send submissions to Dr. Laurene Vaughan at <laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au> with a copy to Ms. Jane Malabar at <artofman@essex.ac.uk> The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2008. For more information on the conference, visit URL http://www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/fourth_art_of_management_and_org.shtm Stream Convenors: Prof. Ken Friedman Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Denmark's Design School, Copenhagen <ken.friedman@bi.no> Dr. Laurene Vaughan RMIT University Melbourne, Australia <laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au>