Management practices in project-based design: Metamorphosis of design

Friday 23 April 2010

Metamorphosis of design

Yesterday I participated in a workshop on the metamorphosis of design management, involving a coalition of researchers, teachers and practitioners and organized by the http://www.mdmn.org/ I was particularly struck by Peter Swann's presentation about e-waste (what happens to your computer when you upgrade) and the need for systemic thinking in design.

Selected Publications

Whyte, J. (2011) Managing digital coordination of design: emerging hybrid practices in an institutionalized project setting, Engineering Project Organization Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 159-211

Whyte, J. and Sexton, M. (2011) Motivations for innovation in the built environment: new directions for research, Building Research and Information, Vol. 39, Issue 5, pp. 473-482.

Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 6, 557-567.

Whyte, J. (2010) Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 29, pp. 217-236.

Harty, C. and Whyte, J. (2010) Emerging hybrid practices in construction design work: the role of mixed media, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 136, No. 4, pp. 468-476.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2009) Knowledge practices in design: The role of visual representations as 'epistemic objects, Organization Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 7-30.

Whyte, J., Ewenstein, B. Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2008) Visualizing knowledge in project-based work, Long Range Planning, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp.74-92.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2007) Beyond words: aesthetic knowledge and knowing in design, Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 689-708.