Expanding Perspectives on Work and Performance:
A Collaborative Workshop
August 13, 2010
University of Colorado at Boulder
The domain of "work" is often considered the
province of technical or management knowledge alone. This
one-day, collaborative workshop is intended to expand our perspectives on
understanding work, and performance, through three interactive sessions and a
collaborative planning session for future development.
The workshop is open to participants from universities, research organizations,
and industry. The workshop brings together
perspectives on work and performance from three widely different domains, for
the purposes of intellectual exploration, integration of research with
practical problems, and building future collaborations.
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The workshop opens with an introductory session considering an
intellectual framework for understanding work and performance in living
systems, including humans.
This introduction will be followed by the first main session, by Robert
Levin and Michael Lightner, which will explore limits and trade-offs on
performing work in biological and manufactured systems.
The second workshop session, by Jessica Pearson and Stan Deetz,
expands on the theme of performance with a presentation on performance in
dance: human performance, artistic performance, and the challenges of the work
of choreography. This session continues with a
presentation on how communication in organizations can be understood in terms
of dance and jazz composition.
The third session, presented by Clayton Lewis with discussion by Donna
Caccamise, provides participants with the opportunity to learn about practical
challenges in work and performance for people with cognitive disabilities and
with the opportunity to integrate perspectives from the first two sessions with
these challenges.
The closing session will bring together perspectives from the three main
sessions and provide for the opportunity for future collaborative development.
This interactive and collaborative event is available through advance
application /registration only.
Registration is limited. Registration includes workshop attendance,
pre-workshop materials, a sponsored lunch, and all breaks and refreshments. Thanks to our sponsors, there is no registration fee for this first year's event.
This workshop has been developed in collaboration
with:
·
Center for the
Integrative Study of Work (CISW), CU-Boulder
·
Coleman Institute
for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado
·
Alliance for
Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS), CU-Boulder
·
WorkScience
Acknowledgements
·
Department of
Theatre and Dance
·
Institute of
Cognitive Science
·
Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Research
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