When we talk about management in a contemporary sense, it is not only about the efficiency of production, it is also about the skills to look at the source of the production, meaning each individual in the organization. The individual as a whole is the source of creation and production, and not only their skills. If we agree with this point, then the question is how to know the individual, where is the source for the individual then? It is invisible and it exists in each individual's inner side.
Maybe it is possible to be visible, just through different media. Xu Tan's project "Searching for Keywords" is a project to give us "the mind landscape" though words. By interviewing different people, through the interviewee's talking, Xu Tan gathered the keywords from the conversation. And these keywords gave us a landscape of "the mind we live in today." So Xu Tan's keywords project in Cowin Global, will also give us a landscape of Cowin Global's mind.
This project has also something to do with "Enterprise culture". This is a term we hear a lot today, but what is it and how to realize it? There are different ways to approach this issue. "Keywords project" is an art piece, but it is not in object form. It is more in an invisible way, to allow all the individuals in the Cowin Global to express themselves freely. Through expression, the individuals can have a better understanding of each other. This way will create community, which is an important force of energy that the company needs.
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August 2009 - Xu tan and his assistant visited COWIN GLOBAL. They interviewed staff and managers from different departments during a week
September to October 2009 - Xu tan collected the conversations and Interviews of COWIN GLOBAL, the research tried to find clues and structures for the COWIN keywords school in future.
November 2009 - Xu tan and team from COWIN GLOBAL, Qingdao China had communicated and designed about the main structure of COWIN keywords school together, the constructing works began.
December 2009 - Keywords School at COWIN GLOBAL, Qingdao China started its journey, Xu tan and COWIN GLOBAL team had five days of communication and conversation in the keywords installation which was created and built by them together.
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