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SUMMARY:Perspectives on Uses and Users in the History of Office Buildings
DESCRIPTION:On 20 and 21 November 2023, the BUREU team of C²DH and KU Leuven will host an international workshop on the history of office building use(rs). All practical information, including the programme, can be found below.\n\nEveryone is welcome to attend the workshop, but please inform us by sending an email to jens.vandemaele@uni.lu by 15 November the latest.\n\nProgramme\n\nMonday, 20 November 2023\n\n12.00\n\nLunch13.15Welcome by Andreas Fickers (C²DH) and Martin Kohlrausch (Leuven); Introduction to the workshop theme and the ongoing research on office buildings at C²DH by Jens van de Maele (C²DH)13.45Negotiating the Vertical Bias of Capitalism: Using Information and Offices in Early 20th Century America\nKeynote by Craig Robertson (Associate Professor of Media Studies at Northeastern University, Boston, and author of the award-winning 2021 monograph The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information14.30Session 1: Managerial Cultures (I) (Chair: Rika Devos, Brussels)Building Better Worlds: CEOs, Their Visions and the Facilities They Provide for Their Workers\nRuth Baumeister (Aarhus)The European Commission’s Office Space Between 1950s and 1960s: Building a European “Materialized Imaginary”\nMarco Ninno (Leuven)When Good Office Designs Go Bad: Labor Process Theory, the Scanlon Plan, and the Evolution of Herman Miller’s Action Office\nPetra Seitz (London)16.00Coffee break16.30Session 2: Environmental and Psychological Aspects of Office Work (Chair: Fredie Floré, Leuven)Managing Total Environments: Light, Sound and Focus in the Office, ca. 1970\nJoeri Bruyninckx (Maastricht)Permanent Spring? Bodily Negotiations of Climate Control in Tokyo Office Spaces\nTatsuja Mitsuda (Tokyo)Surviving the Office: Workplace Design, Activism and the Health of Women Workers in Twentieth-Century Britain\nAmy Thomas (Delft)19.00Dinner at Brasserie Mansfeld (3 Rue de la Tour Jacob, 1831 Luxembourg)\n\nTuesday, 21 November 2023\n\n09.30\n\nSession 3: Managerial Cultures (II) (Chair: Stephanie Fransis, C²DH)User Requests for Governmental Offices During the Portuguese Estado Novo, 1948-74\nAna Mehnert Pascoal (Lisbon)The Paradoxes of Work Cultures in Modern Office Buildings in the Philippines\nPhilip Michael Paje (Manila)From Taylorist to Dynamic Office Organization: Architectural Design Practice Learning from Office Management Methods. Some Cases From (Postwar) West Germany\nGernot Weckherlin (Dessau)11.00Coffee break11.15Session 4: Computers and Office Technologies After the 1960s (Chair: Andreas Fickers, C²DH)The Computerized Office: Planning, Office Work and Visions for Technology, 1980-2000\nChristiane Berth (Graz)Measuring, Evaluating and Configuring: The Debate About Screen Work in West Germany From 1974 to 1996\nBernd Holtwick (Dortmund)Concluding remarks by Rika Devos, Andreas Fickers, Fredie Floré and Martin Kohlrausch (Chair: Jens van de Maele)AfternoonVoluntary excursion to the EU office buildings in Luxembourg (details to be announced)\n\nPractical information for presenters\n\nThe length of individual presentations should be around 15 minutes.\n\nPresenters are kindly requested to send a written version of their presentation to jens.vandemaele@uni.lu (5000 to 7000 words) by 13 November. Papers will be circulated among all participants prior to the event, to enable a fruitful discussion.\n\nA selection of papers will be published in a theme issue of a peer-reviewed journal (with the workshop organisers as guest editors).\n\nDate Processing Department of the Governmental Administrative Centre, Brussels, 1972\n\nOrganisation and funding\n\nThe workshop is organised by the members of the BUREU research project, which investigates the history of EU office buildings in Brussels and Luxembourg. The team unites researchers from Luxembourg and Flanders:\n\nUniversity of Luxembourg / Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH): Prof. dr. Andreas Fickers, Stephanie Fransis, dr. Jens van de Maele, Sofia Magalhaes\n\nKU Leuven / Research group Modernity and Society, 1800 – 2000: Prof. dr. Martin Kohlrausch, Marco Ninno\n\nThe BUREU project and the workshop are funded by the CORE International programme of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), in association with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).\n\nFor general questions about the workshop, please write to jens.vandemaele@uni.lu. Presenters with questions regarding their hotel and flight bookings should write to sofia.magalhaes@uni.lu.\n\nControl room of the Governmental Administrative Centre, Brussels, showing a panel with a diagram of the office complex, 1978\n\nRead more: https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/perspectives-on-uses-and-users-in-the-history-of-office-buildings/
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