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.
Conference Proceedings
2013
High Performance Work Practices, Work Uncertainty, and Employee Overtime
in Capitalism in Question, Academy of Management (AOM), 2013, Florida, United States
Paper presented in a Conference
2013
Home and Host Country Versus distance Effects in the field of Entry mode Choice
in Proceedings of the 11th EIASM Worshop on International Management, 2013, Berlin, Germany
Journal Article
2013
How can management control system fairness reduce managers unethical behaviours?
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2013, vol. Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. pp. 209-222 14 p.
Journal Article
2013
How do pre-existing R&D activities in a region influence the performance of cluster initiatives? The case of French competitiveness clusters
EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES, 2013, vol. 21 (10), pp. 1653–1675
Paper presented in a Conference
2013
How effective is WTO membership in reducing tariffs? : analysis of different kinds of effects on tariff reduction between 1991 and 2010.
in 1st China Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Conference on Cross Cultural Dialogue, Education & Business,, 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Book
2013
How fixed is a permanent establishment?
Kluwer Law International, 2013
Journal Article
2013
How franchisors describe their ideal entrepreneurial franchisee
JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH, 2013
Paper presented in a Conference
2013
How International Assignees Affect Knowledge Transfers in Mncs : A Multinational Comparison
in Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS), 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Chapter
2013
How SMEs Disclose their Sustainability Performance. Which Variables Influence the Choice of Reporting Guidelines?
in Accounting and Control for Sustainability., Songini L.,Pistoni A.,Herzigbook C (eds), Emerald, vol. 26, pp. pp.77-114, 2013
Book
2013
How to think strategically
Pearson-Financial Times series, Harlow, United Kingdom, 2013