Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette
Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette Art Thinking
See this page in
[FR]
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
Focus on...
Article
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
2010
(Untitled contribution)
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A bridge or a link? New product development decisions, innovation performance and the role of product innovativeness
in Proceedings of the Summer Marketing Educators' Conference, American Marketing Association (AMA), 2010, Boston, United States
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A comparative study of the French and Russian management styles through Hofstede's dimensions: are there grounds for business development between the tw countries?
in Proceedings of the Franco Russian conference "Economie, Politique et Société, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2010, Moscow
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A l'intersection entre sciences du langage et sciences de gestion : quelques perspectives d'innovation pédagogique pour l'enseignement dans les écoles de management
in Actes des 4èmes journées du Groupe Ecoles de Management (GEM)-UPLEGESS : Les enseignements de langues et cultures face aux enjeux du changement dans les écoles de management, Rouen Business School, 2010, Rouen
Chapter
2010
A multi-agent data mining system for defect forecasting in a decentralized manufacturing environment
in Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems 2010., Herrero, Á., Corchado, E., Redondo Gil, C., Alonso Alvarez, Á Eds, Springer, pp. 43-50, 2010
Journal Article
2010
A multicriteria decision support system for bank rating
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, 2010, vol. 50 (1), pp. 55-63
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A multicultural experience boosted by specialized European master
in Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Project Engineering, 2010, Madrid
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A multicultural experience boosted by specialized european mater : a real approach to international project management
in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress on Project Engineering, Madrid, 2010, Madrid
Paper presented in a Conference
2010
A Typology of Knowledge Acquisition Methods in the Entrepreneurial Process
in Proceedings of the European Academy of Management Conference, EURAM/, Roma, 2010, Roma
Journal Article
2010
Abgrenzungsmerkmale der den Katalogberufen ähnlichen freien Berufe nach jüngster BFH-Rechtsprechung
FINANZ-RUNDSCHAU, 2010, pp. 353-360