Isabela dos Santos Paes, Jean-Luc Moriceau, Laisa Braganca de Moura. Senses and sensuous observations from theatre. SCOS 2010 : 28th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbiolism, Jul 2010, Lille, France.

While observation is a privileged route to organizations and cultures, sight is conceived as a distant and cognitive access. Drawing on a study of Odin Teatret, using three types of gazes (the participant observer’s, the case study researcher’s, the reflexive thinker’s), we explore the possibilities of a more sensitive use of sight for research. Drawing on the works of Nancy, Rancière, Geertz and Lingis, we will contend that such a gaze invites to a different distribution of both the sensitive and the sensible between the observed people, the observer and the reader.