STS Circle at Harvard [image.png] Jana Cephas Harvard, GSD on "The Body is Like an Automobile Chassis": Visualizing Control at the Henry Ford Hospital.
Monday, February 24 12:15-2:00 pm Room 100F, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street [image.png] Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please RSVP to sts<mailto:[email protected]>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by 5pm Wednesday, February 19. Abstract: In October 1915, Henry Ford Hospital opened its doors to patients in the city of Detroit. Financed by Henry Ford and overseen by the Ford Motor Company Medical Organization, the new hospital and its mass of daily visitors faced the same spatial and organizational challenges as the corporation’s innovation River Rouge factory—managing the efficient flow of entities through space. In both the hospital and the factory, the flow chart became an essential tool of management that both visualized production processes and allowed managers to design production flow. As a visual tool, the flow chart made legible the necessary adjacency of consecutive operations that made up the organizational order called vertical integration. Thus, by visualizing the movement of bodies and materials through the factory and hospital complex, the flow chart allowed for keen associations concerning the control of both products and people. Biography: Jana Cephas is a PhD candidate studying the relationships between urban landscapes, new technologies, and emergent subjectivities. She is particularly interested in the role of the body as the figurative joint between architectural construction and the construal of social identities. Her doctoral research examines the agonism structuring Fordism and urbanization in early twentieth-century Detroit by examining metaphors associating working (class) bodies, modern buildings, and efficient machines. Her earlier work examined the geographies of informal economies. Jana received her M.Arch. degree from the University of Detroit Mercy, served as the managing editor for Positions: On Modern Architecture and Urbanism / Histories and Theories, and was the 2011 Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Prior to attending Harvard, Jana was a Design Fellow at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center where she designed and managed building projects for low-income communities. A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/sts_circle/ Follow us on Facebook: STS@Harvard<http://www.facebook.com/HarvardSTS> _______________________________________________
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