Philosopher in Residence in Construction Companies

建筑公司常驻哲学家

• 批准号: AH/G010099/1
• 负责人: Mark Addis
• 金额: $ 4.36万
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG010099%2F1
• 关键词: Philosopher; Residence; Construction; Companies

The research applies philosophical ideas about expertise-in-context to improving practice in construction companies thus providing economic, social and cultural benefits. Construction is a rich environment displaying the use of expertise-in-context at a variety of levels in very intense and unique situations. The research will explore the therapeutic or diagnostic role of philosophy and its usefulness to practice, through the loosening of preconceptions and the exposure of unexamined assumptions and consequences based on a conception of knowledge as a process of activity (individual or social) rather than an abstract commodity that can be accumulated. Three construction companies, Mouchel, Pettifer Construction, and Rider Levett Bucknall, have agreed to be involved. The project will involve small group workshops with practitioners on site in these companies analysing the philosophical dilemmas in their work in order to sensitise them to the benefits of clear thinking in context so that they can revise their practice and company processes thus providing economic benefit. There are three stages. The first stage will use a series of stories, embodying philosophical dilemmas, from the construction industry in order to develop language and concepts of expertise-in-practice with participants. For example, the concept of waste has a context dependent meaning so there may be confusion over whether buffer time between activities and adornment on a building should be so described. These skills will be used in the second stage involving small group discussion taking individual's actual experiences of practice and helping them to expose faulty and inadequate assumptions about knowledge and to identify organisational contradictions in structure and processes. The third stage will involve a number of participants taking this activity themselves into their organisations, and an exploration of how more rigorous thinking can be embedded in company structure and processes in a long term sustainable way.Individuals involved will understand and value their skills more clearly recognising their expertise-in-context including diagnosing limitations to their knowledge and work context which they will be able to communicate to a wider public. This will provide immediate benefit to the individuals and company, however, also demonstrating a better image of the industry to attract new entrants. The activity will raise the cultural awareness of construction practitioners towards philosophy and the resultant publicity from the project will broadcast this generally across the industry. At the same time, the project will challenge philosophy to provide an articulation which can be appreciated in non academic environments. In the long term, this will enable staff to change company structures and processes so they are aligned with improvements in practice, and to assist colleagues in therapeutic and diagnostic thinking thereby creating a critical mass of staff for effective change. These processes facilitate sustainable evolutionary change from within.

这项研究将关于背景专业知识的哲学思想应用于改善建筑公司的实践，从而提供经济、社会和文化利益。建筑是一个丰富的环境，展示了在非常紧张和独特的情况下，在不同水平上使用上下文中的专业知识。这项研究将探索哲学的治疗或诊断作用及其对实践的用处，方法是松开先入为主的概念，暴露未经检验的假设和后果，其基础是知识是活动的过程(个人或社会)，而不是可以积累的抽象商品。三家建筑公司，Mouchel，Pettifer Construction和Rider Levett Bucnuall，已同意参与其中。该项目将包括由这些公司的从业人员参加的小组讲习班，现场分析他们工作中的哲学难题，以便使他们认识到在背景下清晰思考的好处，以便他们能够修改他们的做法和公司流程，从而提供经济利益。有三个阶段。第一阶段将使用建筑业的一系列故事，体现哲学上的两难境地，以便与参与者一起发展语言和实践中的专门知识概念。例如，废物的概念具有上下文相关的含义，因此对于是否应该如此描述建筑物上的活动和装饰之间的缓冲时间可能会产生混淆。这些技能将用于第二阶段，包括小组讨论，收集个人的实际实践经验，帮助他们揭露关于知识的错误和不充分的假设，并确定组织结构和过程中的矛盾。第三阶段将包括一些参与者将这项活动亲自带入他们的组织，并探索如何以长期可持续的方式将更严格的思维嵌入公司结构和流程中。参与其中的个人将更清楚地了解和评价他们的技能，认识到他们的专业知识，包括诊断他们的知识和工作背景的局限性，他们将能够与更广泛的公众交流。然而，这将为个人和公司带来立竿见影的好处，同时也展示了行业更好的形象，以吸引新进入者。这项活动将提高建筑从业员对哲学的文化意识，由此产生的宣传将在整个行业广泛传播。同时，该项目将挑战哲学，提供一种可以在非学术环境中欣赏的表达方式。从长远来看，这将使工作人员能够改变公司结构和流程，使其与实践中的改进保持一致，并帮助同事进行治疗和诊断思维，从而创造出一大批有效变革的工作人员。这些过程促进了从内部进行可持续的进化变化。