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Lunchtime Talk: Camilla Child, 22nd FebruaryEric Trist said of Socio Technical Systems (STS) that he “found them down a coal mine by people who were already doing them.” This seminal work took place in the post war period but the influence of STS theory continues to lie at the heart of our thinking ...
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Post by Dr Jean Neumann, Professional Partner, Senior Fellow in Scholarly Practice, TIHROnly after I committed to writing the chapter did I remember that TIHR’s archives would be unavailable to me. I had been invited to contribute to a book about people the editors considered “great change thinkers”...
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From the Archive“I rather dislike the idea of being written down to” Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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From the Archive“Distribution of cake eating (& biscuits for women) on weekdays in winter for regions”Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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Alice White who has recently completed her PhD research using the archive writes.As the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ (TIHR) archives are being catalogued, ready to be opened up to new audiences, I have been thinking a lot about access to knowledge generally, and to knowledge about the TIH...
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From the Archive“We do not need theories so much as the experience…”Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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This is the second video piece documenting the emergence of the archive project. We get to see the enthusiasm of our partners and their excited commentary on what is and what might be held in the stack of boxes.Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Op...
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From the Archive‘The anxiety about Hair.’Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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This video is a record of the early project, when we began to uncover and make sense of the archival material in its then distant and inaccessible location: a large storage facility on the edge of the river Thames in Woolwich. It shows the excitement emerging among the project team and other members...
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From the Archive‘Oh, why doesn’t someone make more plain chocolate biscuits?’Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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We’ve been documenting the archive project since Coreene and I started tracking down the boxes in 2012, a journey that took us to a warehouse way down the river Thames and where we filmed this early excavation work. Our raw material then? A spreadsheet with many uncompleted cells, a story of a fire ...
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From the Archive‘What do you want from work?’‘…make something beautiful’Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...
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Our history in the present, the archive as organisational development.This second in our series of short films and records of our archival enquires tells the tale of an enthusiastic response from our partners and with this we take the opportunity to update on the project.The question of where the Ta...
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Exploring the potential for new applications of STS thinking and practice.In this talk Camilla Child looks to the Tavistock archives and takes us briefly through STS history and current practice. She looks at recent work with fresh eyes to see if we can uncover new understandings for future practice...
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International Symposium delivers on TIHR 70th festival promise at Academy of Management Annual Meeting.It is a Chicago Summer 2018, too early in the morning on Tuesday in a windowless, air-conditioned meeting room. This massive architectural gem of a hotel is one of a few hosting around 11,000 parti...
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We are excited to announce that a new batch of materials has now been fully catalogued and is available to browse online and request for viewing through the archive catalogue. The catalogue can be accessed through the Tavistock project blog: https://tavarchive.modernactivity.com/the-archive/Since Oc...
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Conference overviewDiscover the unique role played by the Tavistock and Portman in the advance of psychotherapy and developmental theory through patient files and clinic records dating back nearly a century.This unique project undertaken by London Metropolitan Archives and funded by the Wellcome Tru...
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This session was a tale of two journeys. In the first journey, archive documents were used to journey into the past and retrace the steps I took during my PhD to uncover the fascinating and untold stories behind Second World War officer selection and the creation of a programme to rehabilitate thous...
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Through four different and thought provoking events the speakers and those attending the symposium took part in a deep reflection on the meaning of the Institute’s work and history. Situated at its heart is the work to catalogue the Institute’s archive, what it means for this unique document of soci...