Session Information
32 SES 09 A, Organizing in “Circles”: Organizational Learning towards Futures in Organizing and Circular Economies
Symposium
Contribution
At a global and regional level, circular patterns become a rationality of organizing within sustainability discourses (Geissdoerfer et al 2017). Against the acceleration VUCA economy and society, alternative strategies of organizational and networked change emerge, referring to regional circuits (Douthwaite 1996) and to circular economies (Asheim and Coenen 2006). How do circular rationalities enter into organizing the future? Taking a closer look into the organizing patterns – the dispositives - of creation, we can see the pattern of the circular being very old rationality, emerging with the evolution of humankind. Within an ecological rationality, the process of nature as such is thought of in circles. The circular in this sense can be regarded as a dispositive of organizing the new (Weber 2013). The global rationality of “Circular Organizing” is to be discovered within systemic approaches like large group interventions, design thinking, talking circle, or presencing (Weber 2014). Those circular methodologies of becoming intend to bring about sustainability communication and cooperation (Adler; Weber 2018). As rituals of transformation, they open up transitional spaces of transgression into new ways of interconnected organizing (Weber 2005). Dialogical formats such as sustainability labs support network development as well as consciousness raising. The VALUE CIRCLE of sustainable nutrition then comes into view not only at the level of improving products and processes but at the level of collective system building and consciousness (Weber 2014). As Leal Filho et al. (2017, p135) show, progress “is to be measured by new criteria, such as community building, collective action and construction of new infrastructures of provision, in which well-being is not only tied to consumption, but to conscious consumption and even degrowth perspectives”. The paper draws on results from the piloting experience with sustainability innovation labs realized in 2018/2019, based on the research project ‘towards circular economies’, funded by the German Council for Sustainable Development 2018-2019. The multilevel approach addressed the new paradigm of sustainability and regional innovation systems (RIS) for regional, rural, low tech contexts. Based on a Foucauldian discourse perspective for research, training and development of a consultancy approach, the rationalities and perspectives of involved stakeholders and students were analyzed in a longitudinal, qualitative and image-based analysis (Weber, Heidelmann 2019). The paper presents outcomes of the lab-series realized in 2018 and 2019 and discusses the “dispositives of creation” found in metaphors and imagination of involved stakeholders and students.
References
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