Antonio Strati

Co-founder of SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism - EGOS) in Glasgow 1981, and of RUCOLA (Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning, and Aesthetics – Dept of Sociology) in Trento 1993, Antonio Strati is both a sociologist and an art photographer. He is senior professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy, and chercheur associé at i3-CRG, École polytechnique of Paris, France.

His academic work focuses on organizational symbolism and the aesthetic approach to study organizational life, while his artistic research focuses on conceptual photography.

He is the author of Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies (Routledge, 2019), of Organization and Aesthetics (Sage, 1999) – which also appeared in French (PUL, 2004), Portuguese (FGV, 2007) and Italian (Mondadori, 2008) – and of Theory and Method in Organization Studies (Sage, 2000), that also was published in Italian (Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1996 – Carocci, 2004). He is co-author (with Silvia Gherardi) of Learning and Knowing in Practice-Based Studies (Elgar, 2012) and of Administração e aprendizagem na prática (Elsevier Editora, 2014).

His artistic research in conceptual photography, Photopoesia, has been published in books and photographic journals and collected at Museums and international Collections.