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.
Edited Book / Textbook
2013
Les canaux de distribution et les nouvelles technologie
EMS Editions, Cormelles-le-Royal, France, 2013
Journal Article
2013
« L’interdiction de l’eau, du feu, ... et du toit (sens et origine de la désignation du bannissement chez les Romains) »,
REVUE DE PHILOLOGIE DE LITTERATURE ET D'HISTOIRE ANCIENNES, 2013, vol. 87 (1), pp. 125 - 155
Guest Speaker in a Conference
2013
« State-owned enterprises in MENA region: a long-term strategy rather than a way-station to privatization». CMI Conference (Center for Mediterranean Integration), with The World Bank and OCEMO «Public Governance and Economic Development in MENA »
2013, The World Bank, Aix-en-Provence, France
Guest Speaker in a Research Seminar
2013
Annual Conference of the Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade
discutante. 2013, Barcelone, Spain
Paper presented in a Conference
2013
PyMES e internacionalización
in III Jornadas sobre la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa e Iniciativa Empresaria, 2013, Madrid, Spain
Chapter
2012
"Some like it hot", Interpreting and responding to diversity issues and initiatives: Implications for global leaders
in Advances in Global Leadership., MOBLEY W.H., WANG Y., LI M. (eds.) Eds, Emerald, pp. pp. 125-153 29 p., 2012
Paper presented in a Conference
2012
"Think global, act local", la gestion de la diversité linguistique dans l'entreprise et dans la formation des managers.
in ATLAS-AFMI Association Francophone de Management International "L'engagement international à l'écoute du local", 2012, Lyon, France
Conference Proceedings
2012
(Untitled contribution)
Paper presented in a Conference
2012
2-tier vs 3-tier Loan Guarantee Schemes: which is the most successful? Empirical findings from an in depth analysis of the Italian System
in Proceedings of the FEBS 2nd International Conference of Financial Engineering and Banking Society, 2012, London, United Kingdom
Journal Article
2012
5 réflèxes pour faire face à la crise
in Le Journal du Net., LE JOURNAL DU NET, June 2012, vol. http://www.journaldunet.com/management/expert/51755/5-reflexes-pour-faire-face-a-une-crise.shtml, pp. 1 p.