Université de Fribourg

Assessing ‘Quality’: The unfolding of the ‘Good’—Collective decision making in juries of urban design competitions

Van Wezemael Joris Ernest ; Silberberger, Jan M. ; Paisiou, Sofia

In: Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2011, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 167-172

The radical orientation towards the future; the notion of novelty, experimentation and creativity makes an architectural competition a fascinating object – not least for management studies. In the paper at hand we discuss findings of an ethnographic study on the jury assessment sessions of four recent architectural competitions in Switzerland. We consider these meetings as a laboratory from...