Senses of "shipscapes": an artful navigation of ship architecture and aesthetics

Purpose - In the context of organizational aesthetics, "built environments" remain under-explored. The purpose of this paper is to enter the maritime world of ship architectures to navigate sensory-aesthetic knowledge of a sailor's place-based memories.Design methodology approach - Ch...

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Published in:Journal of organizational change management 2011-01, Vol.24 (6), p.733-750
Main Authors: Griffiths, John, Mack, Kathy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Architecture
Bonding
Boundaries
Descriptions
Materiality
Memory
Methodology
Navigation
Organization theory
Organizational change
Senses
Ships
Studies
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Summary:Purpose - In the context of organizational aesthetics, "built environments" remain under-explored. The purpose of this paper is to enter the maritime world of ship architectures to navigate sensory-aesthetic knowledge of a sailor's place-based memories.Design methodology approach - Challenges have been issued to explore the potential for artistic-sensual methodologies to both study and represent organizational aesthetics. The authors accept these challenges in the context of "shipscapes".Findings - A sailor's "artworks" become artefacts through which are evoked rich, multi-sensory descriptions of deep-sea tug vessels. The sailor's sensible knowledge is related to seafaring practice, the aesthetic taste for ships and the aesthetic bond with them. Sensory-aesthetic architectural memories are further connected to functional and symbolic aspects of ships as built environments.Research limitations implications - Certain place space shipboard knowledge remains constrained by the boundaries of an "arts-based" sensory-aesthetic method.Originality value - The multi-sensed, remembered and co-constructed nature of "shipscapes", as celebrated through a seafarer's already created art, keeps aesthetic knowledge close to the source of both embodied experience and aesthetic meaning.
ISSN:0953-4814
1758-7816
DOI:10.1108/09534811111175724