Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette
Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette Art Thinking
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The Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette is all about bringing together artists and entrepreneurs, linking art with business in a new way.
It supports creative practices by connecting artists with entrepreneurs, businesses with cultural institutions, and artistic creation with business strategy. It encourages everyone to embrace the "improbable" to think like creators. Through a unique method called "Art Thinking," developed at ESCP, the Galeries Lafayette group and ESCP offer a way to support, encourage, and spread the act of creation.
A few words from
Guillaume Houzé
Brand and Communications Director, Galeries Lafayette group
“The Improbable Chair is all about bringing together artists and entrepreneurs, linking art with business in a new way. It supports creative practices by connecting artists with entrepreneurs, businesses with cultural institutions, and artistic creation with business strategy. It encourages everyone to embrace the ‘improbable’ to think like creators. Through a unique method called ‘Art Thinking’, developed at ESCP, the Galeries Lafayette group and ESCP offer a way to support, encourage, and spread the act of creation.”
Guillaume Houzé, Brand and Communications Director, Galeries Lafayette group Photo Credit: ©Lucasziwel
A few words from
Sylvain Bureau
Professor at ESCP Business School
Scientific Director of the Improbable Chair
“Our initial belief was simple: to make creation accessible to as many people as possible. To achieve this, we developed a method called Art Thinking, which characterises how artists, entrepreneurs, and scientists go through similar steps in the creative process, such as gift-giving, deviating, destroying and drifting. For 15 years, our Art-Thinking seminars have trained thousands of students, entrepreneurs, managers, and researchers across a dozen countries and twenty universities and schools. Partnering with Galeries Lafayette group, a company with a strong entrepreneurial DNA, our chair combines theory and practice to amplify this approach and promote creators and creation in the broadest sense.”
Professor Sylvain Bureau, Scientific Director of the Improbable Chair
Objectives
The Chair has two major complementary goals:
- Support scientific research to better understand creative practices
- Teach the Art Thinking method and spread the Improbable pedagogy worldwide
Art Thinking not only helps participants unleash their innate creative potential; it also promotes collaboration, listening, leadership, negotiation, and constructive dialogue. Participants learn to question themselves, leverage failure, establish partnerships, and develop an agile approach to uncertainty.
Three areas of activity
- Scientific publications
- Doctoral theses and final dissertations
- Improbable Siesta: seminar bringing together researchers, artists, and experts in creation
- Spreading the Improbable method at ESCP and beyond
- Designing initial training in Art Thinking
- Training Art Thinking instructors
- Conferences and workshops on Art Thinking
- Exhibitions and Improbable openings
- Improbable residencies (artist/scientist/entrepreneur triads)
“This Chair is the story of an encounter between visionary creators who understood early on how future generations of students and entrepreneurs would need artistic and creative practices to prepare for the world of tomorrow. Through this collaboration, ESCP is grateful to the Galeries Lafayette group for opening up new playgrounds for unprecedented and improbable creations!”
Pascale Pernet, Director of chairs and corporate sponsorship
ppernet@escp.eu
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On Tuesday, 19th March 2024, Léon Laulusa, Dean and Executive President of ESCP, Jean-Stéphane Arcis, President of the ESCP Foundation, Philippe Houzé, Chairman of the Management Board of the Galeries Lafayette group, and Guillaume Houzé, Brand and Communications Director, Galeries Lafayette group, signed the first Chair dedicated to artistic and entrepreneurial creation.
Research Monograph (Working papers)
2005
The Development of Capabilities and Routines of a market economy : Footwear in Russia and Ukraine
Centre for the Study of Economic and Social change in Europe, 2005
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The Diffusion, Adoption and Impact of New Public Management : A Case Study of a French Public Company
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Trends and Fashions in Management Studies, EIASM, 2005, Lisbonne
Journal Article
2005
The Diversity of Technology Licensing Agreements And Their Causes
LES NOUVELLES - LICENSING EXECUTIVES SOCIETY, 2005, vol. Vol. 40, Issue 6
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The Effects of Country of Design, Country of Manufacture and Brand Image on Consumer Perceptions of Product Quality
in European Marketing Academy conference, 2005, Milan, Italy
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The Emotion Wheel: A tool for the verbal report of emotional reactions
in Proceedings of the General Meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE), 2005, Bari
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The fair trial in Afganistan
in Proceedings of The Max Planck Institute & l'Institut International de Paris la Défense (IIPLD), 2005, France
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The Intellectual Structure of New Product Development Literature: A Bibliometric Study
in Proceedings of the INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 2005, Atlanta, United States
Book
2005
The International Market for ADRs, GDRs and EDRs
CeDeWu Publishers, Warsaw, Poland, 2005
Edited Book / Textbook
2005
The Rats in the walls
Langues pour tous, Paris, France, 2005
Paper presented in a Conference
2005
The role of cognition and emotion in strategic issue interpretation: the case of diversity as a "hot" strategic issue.
in ?A New Vision of Management in the 21st Century?, Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2005, Honolulu, United States