Dreamfish summary

The Performative Turn and Knowledge Activism

writings and research by Tiff von Emmel

Performative Turn Slides

knowledge revolution_presentation-vonemmel.ppt - Knowledge revolution slide show: The performative turn towards ecological and social transformation. Symposium, Splendors of Knowledge Forms, Fielding Graduate University. January, 2005.

Dissertation

Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University, UMI Microform No. 3184476. 2005

• Abstract: Somatic Performance-Knowledge Activism and Relational Practices Dissertation Abstract vonEmmel.pdf
• Introduction: vonemmel_performing a participatory world.pdf - This is autobiographical.
• Chapter One: Knowledge Activism thesis-ch1-2005 vonEmmel.pdf - this chapter is about what is wrong with knowledge and what we can do about it.
• Chapter Nine: Social Improvisation and Transformative Knowledge vonEmmel.pdf
• References: vonemmel dissertation references.doc

Book chapters

• Dreamscape: A collaboration method In 2008, Shapiro, S. et al., Innovations in Transformative Learning. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

• Group visioning in Berlin. In Kuppers, Petra, Community Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006.

• “Four frames of transformative learning: Relational, practical, poetic and critical”. Symposium, Transformative Learning for Social Justice, Fielding Graduate University. 2005.

Performative Technology

Interactivist model: Facilitation model for herding cats to do good (CARIS model)

Organizational Improvisation and the Use of Self

“Valuing the improvising organization”, co-presented with Pamela Meyer, De Paul University. Conference, Applied Improvisation Network, San Francisco. 2004.

"Application of improvisation theory to organizational transformation". Conference, Sociological Practice Association, San Francisco. 2003.

Improvisation lab: A Group workout for Sustainability. National Organization Development Network conference, “Sustainable Organizations”, Portland, Oregon. 2003.

The self and organizational improvisation. The Dynamic Time and Creative Inquiry in Organizational Change conference, Organizational Development and Change Division, Academy of Management, and Center for Creative Inquiry, Essex, MA. 2002.

Evolving - A Phenomenological Study of improvisation.doc 2001.

Qualititative Research Methodology

Improvisation as Inquiry: A Collaborative Inquiry project. 2001-2002.