Design as redesign in the case of architectural competitions: the role of design visualisations and juries. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jacobsen, Peter Holm; Tryggestad, Kjell; Harty, Chris
• Is Part Of: Culture and organization. Volume 27:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 70
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Dialogue-based architectural competition -- design visualisation -- actor-network theory -- ethnography -- design work; Culture -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; 302.305
• DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2020.1778697
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-9551

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Organisational research positions design as complex and open-ended. We contribute to research on design and the organisation of competition by conceptualising design as redesign and as a collective 'thing' consisting of an interconnected and dynamically evolving set of new design issues and matters of concern that blur actors' professional roles. Our approach builds on actor-network theory using an ethnographic study to follow architects' design work in a commercial case of a dialogue-based architectural competition. Building scales and design concepts were translated and inscribed into different forms of design visualisations and circulated amongst the client, the architect office, and the workshop during the encounter between the team of architects and the jury. As circulating references, design visualisations retain and transform the design and give rise to new contradictory design issues during the actors' verbal dialogue.