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Call for Proposals for the Global STS-Design Network —
due date of January 31, 2015
Join us for an exciting week of knowledge sharing and learning in the
beautiful university town of Leuven. This will be an integrated learning
journey featuring first research on Monday and Tuesday, then case studies
on Wednesday, followed by the Global STS-Design Network session on
Thursday and Friday that focuses on the underlying STS design theory and
practice. The offerings of these days are being provided by three groups
that are connecting for the first time … International Workshop on
Teamwork (IWOT), European Workplace Innovation Network (EUWIN), and
the Global STS-Design Network.
Research -- September 7-8th
IWOT addresses various aspects of teamwork in organizations and includes
research from a variety of perspectives, disciplinary backgrounds and
geographical areas. IWOT covers all aspects of team working but with
particular view to the future of teamwork and virtual teams. This year the
focus is on team working in health care. IWOT will soon be issuing their call
for papers with a deadline for abstract submission of Friday May 8th.
Case Studies -- September 9th
EUWIN engages practitioner, researchers, and policy makers to gather
expertise, share knowledge, and raise awareness regarding workplace
innovation. EUWIN is a Europe-wide learning network, launched with the
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specific objective of improving the performance of organizations and the
quality of jobs on a truly sustainable basis. EUWIN is open to practitioners,
social partners, policymakers, and others with an interest in the workplace.
The EUWIN program will feature numerous cases drawn from their own
network and keynote presentations from international thought leaders.
This is a great opportunity to hear first-hand about current best practices in
Europe.
The Global STS-Design Network will be sponsoring one track on STS Design.
During the last 60 years the theory and practice of designing organizations
and workplaces from a Sociotechnical perspective has evolved and
broadened. This 6-hour workshop will offer an overview of the major
streams of practice, including but not limited to, “Classical North American
STS-Design” (both the routine and non-routine work applications), the
Emery Participative Design Workshop approach, the Lowlands-De Sitter
based STS-Design approach and the currently evolving approach to the
design of networks and ecosystems. The workshop is intended for those
new to STS Design as well as those interested in the history of the last 60
years.
STS Design Concepts, Tools and Practices – September 10-11th
Global STS-Design Network - STS Roundtable (North America), Ulbo de
Sitter Institute (Lowlands), STS Australia, and hopefully others - is a global
network of business leaders, researchers, trade unionists, academics,
managers, practitioners, and students who share the values, principles and
practices of socio-technical systems theory and a common interest in
developing more humane and innovative organizations.
The session is being jointly designed by the STS Roundtable with our
colleagues from Europe and will include keynote presentations, 90-minute
workshops, site visits, Pecha Kucha presentations, star European cases in
health care and manufacturing, and an Innovation Gallery (interactive
poster sessions). Following is an overview of the week’s learning journey
and the Network session activities.
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OVERVIEW OF THE GLOBAL STS-DESIGN NETWORK SESSION IN LEUVEN, SEPTEMBER 2015
Designing Healthy, Innovative Organizations and Workplaces: STS-DESIGN CONCEPTS, TOOLS AND PRACTICE
Monday & Tuesday
September 7-8, 2015
Wednesday
September 9, 2015
Thursday
September 10, 2015
STS Design Concepts, Tools and Practices
Case Studies
Research
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EUWIN
SESSION
(under design)
AM
IWOT
(under design)
One track – STS-Design
History & Introduction
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PM
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EVE
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Networking Session (to
bridge EUWIN & Global
STS Design Network
participants)
Welcome &
Introduction to the
Network Session
Learning Journey from
first 3 days
What’s happening in
the World?
Friday
September 11, 2015
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Opening
Keynote Presentation - Frederic Laloux Reinventing Organisations
4 concurrent 90-min. workshops:
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Stakeholder Voice
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Organizational & Workplace
Design
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Network Design
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ICT & STS-D Design
STS Book Launch
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Breakfast - STSRT Annual business
meeting
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Opening - Art and Work presentation
2 European “star” case studies
Innovation Gallery (interactive poster
sessions)
Plenary on lessons learned
3 Concurrent Site visits by bicycle, on
foot or shuttle to:
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Innovation centre IMEC,
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InBEV Brewery
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Danone
Plenary on lessons learned
Pecha Kucha (about 7 presenters)
followed by open space type interaction
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4 concurrent workshops: (repeated)
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Stakeholder Voice
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Organizational & Workplace
Design
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Network Design
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ICT & STS-D Design
75 min Open space for topics of passion
Ooops - what if designing doesn't work ?
Wrapup and reflections on the week
Bridge to 2016
Walking Dinner through Leuven looking
at the intersection of work and art
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Gala diner
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We invite you to submit your ideas and proposals for the
90-minute workshops, Pecha Kucha presentations, and
the Innovation Gallery.
There will be two sessions in the program for the 4 concurrent 90-minute workshops –
one set on Thursday morning and the other on Friday afternoon. We are looking for
highly interactive sessions -- cases or new tools/models/approaches -- that require a bit
more time to share with your colleagues. The focus of the concurrent sessions will be
the four themes initiated in Montreal:
 STS Network Design
 STS Workplace and Organizational Design
 STS Design and Stakeholder Voice
 STS Design and (ICT) Information Communication Technologies
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PechaKucha sessions are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get
together and share ideas in the PechaKucha 20 x 20 format. The 20 x 20 format is simply
a presentation format where you show 20 images each for no longer than 20 seconds.
The images advance automatically and you talk along to the image. Like the classic
elevator pitch, 20 seconds x 20 images, is a bit longer but the idea is the same: short,
concise, fast paced presentations.
The Innovation Gallery (an interactive poster session) venue is a unique opportunity to
engage with your colleagues in a more informal and interactive fashion regarding a case
or a project, a new tool or approach - in general the work you are doing. There will be
several rounds during which there will be brief 4-5 minute presentations followed by 10
minutes of Q&A and discussion.
The proposals do not need to be very lengthy or elaborate. All we need is your title, the
format you prefer (Pecha Kucha, 90-minute workshop, or Innovation Gallery), a brief
description, and the relevance of your workshop/presentation/interactive poster.
The due date for proposals is January 31, 2015.
The Proposal Review Team is composed of Doug Austrom, Geert Van Hootegem and
Pierre Van Amelsvoort.
Deadlines:
January 31, 2015
Submission date for completed proposal for workshop, Pecha
Kucha or Interactive Poster Session
Early spring
Notification of acceptance for presentation at the conference
For North America and Australia, please send proposals (and any questions) to Doug
Austrom [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> .
For Europe, please send proposals (and any questions) to Pierre Van Amelsvoort
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
and Geert Van Hootegem [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> .
Looking forward to seeing you in Leuven in September!
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