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.
Paper presented in a Conference
2009
Credit Crunch Litigation : Offshore, Domestic and International Perspectives
in Proceedings of the Seminar of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and ESCP Europe London Campus, 2009, London
Paper presented in a Conference
2009
Credit Crunch Litigation : Offshore, Domestic and International Perspectives
in Proceedings of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and ESCP Europe London Campus, 2009, London
Published Case Study
2009
Crise financière ou crise organisationnelle ? Du rôle de l'organisation des salles de marché dans la crise bancaire et financière
2009, Centrale de Cas et de Médias Pédagogiques, France
Journal Article
2009
Crise, krach, récession, big bang ?
L'EXPANSION MANAGEMENT REVIEW, June 2009, vol. n° 133, pp. pp 10-67 58 p.
Paper presented in a Conference
2009
Crisis, Consumption, Retailing, Relandscaping
in Proceedings of the 6èmes Journées d'étude sur le Marketing Méditerranéen, 2009, Milan
Journal Article
2009
Critical analysis of the European Union directive which regulates the use of biofuels: An approach to the Spanish case
RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, 2009, vol. 13 (9), pp. 2675-2681
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2009
Cross-border credit derivative swaps, in Tax Management International Forum, 2009 Modifiche alla «CFC legislation» dopo la conversione del decreto «anticrisi»
CORRIERE TRIBUTARIO, 2009, vol. 34
Journal Article
2009
Cross-Country Analysis of Price Levels and Dispersion in Online and Offline Environments
JOURNAL OF PRODUCT AND BRAND MANAGEMENT, 2009, vol. 18(7), pp. 497-505
Chapter
2009
Cross-Country Determinants of Payout Policy
in Dividends and Dividend Policy., BAKER H. K. Ed., John Wiley, pp. pp. 71-93 23 p., 2009
Journal Article
2009
Cross-listing and the long-term performance of ADRs: Revisiting European evidence
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS AND MONEY, December 2009, vol. Vol. 19, Issue 5, pp. pp. 895-923 29 p.