Those who are engaged in sustainable
project development should consider
that these projects are not tasks but that
they take place within organizations and
results in changes to or the creation of new
organizations. Organizations are considered
as black boxes by today’s financial
and economic community and managed
by threats and sanctions to produce ever
increasing output using ever decreasing
input resources.
The financial and economic
perspectives that influence this view
measure success of our organizations by
using two key criteria. They put pressure
on the black box to produce more
(growth in volume, profits) and in ever
shorter times (efficiency). This model is
becoming increasingly difficult to sustain
and those who impose this view on us use
sanctions, threats, punishments and penalties
as the way to manage the black boxes.
Their management styles have devastating
effects on those who operate in the black
boxes and will discard them when they are
no longer of use. The society (the rest of us)
ends up picking up the economic, social and
social cost of the breakdown of these people
discarded by these approaches.
Organizations are not black boxes or buildings
or financial assets. That is a
mechanized view to management and project
management. Organizations are people
who are engaged in creative activities.
Without them there is no one to benefit
from sustainability. Sustainable
project management
therefore needs to
consider people and
their creative artifacts
as central to their
activities. It is always people
who generate creativity and innovation. If
sustainability is to be achieved we need to
abandon the mechanized view of organization
as a black box for producing more
within ever reducing time cycles.
Sustainability, by its very nature, conveys
length of time on a continuous scale. The
beneficiaries are the same people and their
children. They are not just a means of achieving
some abstract objective to be measured
using equally volatile financial criteria
i.e. currency or financial values.
To achieve sustainability therefore it is
important to work with practitioners to
develop sustainable organizations which
focus on people, work with people and for
people. That means the development,
management and facilitation of their competences
to perform in collective and inclusive
ways. Sustainable project management is
about creating such organizations where
management perceive, create, organize,
operate and facilitate people to generate
artifacts that are sustainable.
This year’s conference will therefore focus
on sustainable innovation, management
and competence development and cover
the following topics:
Innovation - applications, principles,
early stage collaboration, dialogical and
systemic approaches, anthropology of uses,
future use characteristics, eco-social perspectives,
innovative business models, complex
epistemologies
Management - new modes of organizations,
evaluation criteria for performance
and control, facilitation of human creativity,
innovation, semi-autonomous organization,
experimentation and Edgar Morin’s self
eco reorganization
Competence development - role of
collaborators, attitudes, skills and behavior,
ability to work with different people, meta
cognitive aspects, conceptualization abilities
TThese are the central axis for this year’s
conference theme. Please send 3-4
pages outlining the content of your proposals
stressing the theoretical references,
methodology and analysis of results / proposals-
suggestions
The authors of the best papers will be invited
to submit their papers for publication
in the International Journal of Projectics
published by De Boeck publishers.
I SSUE OF INTEREST
Techno-economic innovation
Organisational innovation
Social innovation
Systemic or "integral" innovation
Entrepreneurship
Social responsibility
Cooperativism, mutualism
Sustainable development
Systemic approaches
Movement and change
Project management
Creativity
Learning and skills/competence development
Policy, territory and innovation
Citizens-led Initiatives
SUBMISSION
Theoretical and practical papers are welcome. Papers that cross the boundaries
are particularly welcome. The scientific committee of the congress will appreciate
the pedagogical efforts of submitters.
The official languages of this session of the conference are French, Spanish and
English.
The best papers will be edited in the Projectics/Projectique/Proyectica review
published by Editions De Boeck.
CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
• Per Sigurd Agrell (EKELÖW INFOSECURITY, SE)
• Norbert Alter (Université de Paris Dauphine, FR)
• Bernard Claverie (IdC, Bordeaux, FR)
• Jean-Pierre Claveranne (IFROSS, Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon, FR)
• Nicholas Coutts (Consultant, London, GB)
• Isabelle Franchistéguy (IUT, Bayonne, FR)
• René Harlouchet (MCC-LKS, San Sebastian, ES)
• Nimal Jayaratna (Consultant, GB)
• Jean-Michel Larrasquet (CREG, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, FR)
• Benoît Leblanc (IdC, Bordeaux, FR)
• Jérémy Legardeur (ESTIA LIPSI, Bidart, FR)
• Sain Lopez (MU-FCE, Mondragon, ES)
• François Prat (TURBOMÉCA, Tarnos, FR)
• Mohammed Saad (UWE, Bristol, GB)
• David Sanchez (MU-FCE, Mondragon, ES)
• Eddy Soulier (Université Technologique de Troyes, FR)
• Miklos Szocska (SOMMELWEISS, Budapest, HU)
• Luxio Ugarte (MU-FCE, Mondragon, ES)
• Mihaela Ulieru (Canada Research Chair in Adaptative Information. Infrastructures for eSociety, CAN)
KEY DATES FOR SUBMISSION
Submission of the short paper 15th of July 2010
Paper accepted or rejected 30th of July 2010
Registration 15th of September 2010
XIVth Conference on Projectics 7th and 8th of October 2010