Antonio Strati

Senior professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento (retired since 2012), he is a founding member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics (RUCOLA) of the University of Trento and of SCOS, the “Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism”.

Former vice-dean of the Faculty of Sociology, he was president of the Master Degree in Work, Organization and Information Systems, University of Trento, and coordinator of the Teaching Programme on qualitative methods in social research of the Doctoral School in Sociology and social research of Trento.
He has been chercheur associé (2012-2023) of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (i3-CRG), École Polytechnique, CNRS, IP, Paris.

He sits on the Editorial Board of the international journals: Art of Humanistic Management Journal; Culture and Organization (co-founder member); Organizações & Sociedade; Organization; Organization Studies; Organizational Aesthetics; Qualitative Sociology Review; Revista Interdisciplinar de Gestão Social; Sociology Compass - Work & Organization.
Previously, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Aesthesis. International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life; Dragon, the Journal of SCOS (co-founder member); Management Learning; Serbian Journal of Management.

His book Organization and Aesthetics was published in English (Sage, 1999), French (PUL, 2004), Portuguese (FGV, 2007), and Italian (Mondadori, 2008). He is also the author of the book Theory and Method in Organization Studies (Sage, 2000), which was also published in Italian (NIS, 1996; Carocci, 2004), and of numerous essays that have appeared in international journals. He is co-author, with Silvia Gherardi, of Learning and Knowing in Practice-Based Studies (Elgar, 2012).
His most recent book is Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies (Routledge, 2019).

He is an art photographer and some of his “photopoems” – his artistic research in conceptual photography – have appeared in books and journals, and are collected by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), the Museo Nazionale di Fotografia (Cinisello Balsamo - Milan), the International Polaroid Collections (Cambridge, Mass.), and the WestLicht-Schauplatz für Fotografie (Wien) among other Collections.
He is author of the photographic book Riviera Mediterranea (emuse, 2024).