Design as redesign in the case of architectural competitions: the role of design visualisations and juries

Jacobsen, P. H., Tryggestad, K. and Harty, C. (2021) Design as redesign in the case of architectural competitions: the role of design visualisations and juries. Culture and Organization, 27 (1). pp. 51-70. ISSN 1477-2760 doi: 10.1080/14759551.2020.1778697

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/91812
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/14759551.2020.1778697
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of the Built Environment > Organisation, People and Technology group
Publisher	Routledge
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