The "Narrative Recherche" as an artistic method in a Municipal Context
Case Study: Situational Discourse Analysis
At a glance
- Project leader : Birgitta Borghoff
- Project team : Tania Luchena, Michael Uhl
- Project budget : EUR 5'500
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Third party (Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen HKS Ottersberg)
- Project partner : Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen HKS Ottersberg
- Contact person : Birgitta Borghoff
Description
The company is subject to change processes. And with it
organizations, institutions and companies. The way we think, act
and communicate is changing. How do we respond to these changes?
How do we shape change? With which images, with which stories do we
tell about ourselves? How do we give our social, our
organizational, our corporate "we" in motion an adapted narrative
and structure?
The block seminar "Narrative Research - Artistic Movements in
Organizations" at the HKS Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen
Ottersberg teaches BA and MA students of art therapy, dance and
theater pedagogy, fine arts and artful leadership the basics of
"narrative research". The "Narrative Research" was developed by
Michael Uhl, freelance director and lecturer. It is an artistic
intervention and technique with which the theater questions society
by collecting perspectives and narratives of the actors involved.
The result is a mosaic of different perspectives and narratives,
which are brought together in an artistic form. This artistic
method of "narrative research" can also be applied to specific
social groups such as institutions or companies. The storytelling,
the common view of the whole, is not told hierarchically from
above, but represents a common communicative process of the most
diverse individual perspectives. - The seminar is
practice-oriented: Students are to go through the phases of a
"narrative research" by doing their own exemplary work. In the
course of the seminar, students will conduct discussions with
political and official actors in Ottersberg local politics and will
participate in a council and a technical committee meeting for
culture and citizen participation, finance & economy. The results
and learnings from these encounters flow into the process of
"narrative research".
The research area OKOE Organizational Communication and Public
Spheres of the IAM Institute for Applied Media Studies is realizing
a case study on behalf of the HKS in the form of an explorative
situational discourse analysis. The analysis focuses on the
following questions: What are the interests of students going
through the process of a "Narrative Recherche" in local
administration and politics? Which topics and stories can be
reconstructed linguistically? How do students experience the
process of the "Narrative Recherche"? Which practices of the
"Narrative Recherche" can be identified and how is the process
evaluated? The analysis includes a situational determination of the
stories and topics told by the interviewed students as well as the
linguistic reconstruction of the process of "narrative research" -
this in the sense of an initial "mapping" of the experiences made
during the seminar and in the practical field of local politics and
administration.
Publications
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Borghoff, Birgitta; Boogen, Nina,
2024.
Transformation by Creagilization – designing the future of now with “Creative Agility” [paper].
In:
2nd Global Transdisciplinarity Conference, Mustafapaşa, Türkiye, 26-30 June 2024.
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Borghoff, Birgitta; Appelt, Birgit,
2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31183
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Borghoff, Birgitta; Appelt, Birgit,
2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31187
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Borghoff, Birgitta; Appelt, Birgit,
2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31184
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Borghoff, Birgitta; Appelt, Birgit,
2023.
Winterthur:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31185
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2021.
Mit Kreativer Agilität organisationale Transformationsprozesse gestalten.
Language matters - Blog für Sprache und Kommunikation.
Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/languagematters/2021/12/23/kreative-agilitaet/
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2021.
Die «Narrative Recherche» im kommunalen Kontext : eine diskursanalytische Case Study.
Winterthur:
entrepreneurialstorytelling.net.
Available from: https://entrepreneurialstorytelling.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Die-Narrative-Recherche-im-kommunalen-Kontext_ES_Borghoff_2021.pdf