Books by Ariane Berthoin Antal
We editors (Ulla Johannson-Sköldberg, Jill Woodilla, Ariane Berthoin Antal) celebrated the arriva... more We editors (Ulla Johannson-Sköldberg, Jill Woodilla, Ariane Berthoin Antal) celebrated the arrival of the first copy our book on Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, Theory and Practice via skype, each raising our glasses and smiling at each other on our computer screens, one in Germany, another in Portugal and the third in the United States. A creative and fun solution befitting the multinational venture behind the preparation of this volume.
It is telling that the preparation of the volume was remarkably fast and collegial: all of our authors felt as strongly as we did that a research-based overview of how the field has developed over the past decade, with rich examples from different countries, types of organizations, and with diverse art forms, was urgently needed. Ulla hosted authors’ meetings twice in Sweden to discuss our chapter ideas and then our drafts, and both events bubbled with learning conversations as we compared and contrasted our cases. The learning continued in the months between and after these meetings, while we exchanged and commented on drafts via email and phone calls.
When we editors collected our thoughts for the introductory and concluding chapters this past Spring, we were struck by how much our thinking about artistic interventions had evolved with the inputs from our authors. The chapter by Lotte Darsø, one of the founders of the field, captures the revolution/evolution dynamic particularly succinctly. The contribution of chapters that illustrated problematic artistic interventions (for example by Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg and by Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg) broke new ground because the literature to date has tended to highlight only the success stories.
Looking for inspiration? For practical guidance? For theoretical orientation? Our authors gave us all these pleasures, and we now pass them on to you, our readers, with a toast!
Thank you Nancy J. Adler & Linda Ippolito; Victoria Brattström; Barbara Czarniawska; Lotte Darsø ; Marcus Jahnke; Stefan Meisiek & Daved Barry; Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg; Giovanni Schiuma & Daniella Carlucci; Anke Strauß; Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg; Nina Bozic Yams; Katarina Zambrell.
Ariane Berthoin Antal, Ulla Johansson Sköldberg and Jill Woodilla
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and rel... more This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explains its origins, current applications and where it may be going. It provides a full account of varied disciplinary approaches, and discusses major issues in the field. With contributions from leading international experts, the book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students and professionals.
Papers by Ariane Berthoin Antal
Artistic interventions have entered the portfolio of approaches to developing people and organiza... more Artistic interventions have entered the portfolio of approaches to developing people and organizations, thereby expanding theories of organizational learning and culture with aesthetic dimensions. Research shows that organizations of all sizes and types have been involved, and they have worked with many forms of art to stimulate new ways of thinking and to support experimentation with new processes, products and services. Studies have documented many kinds of possible benefits, while emphasizing that the generation of organizational-level value depends first on individuals experiencing value-added in the interspace during the artistic intervention and then in the follow-up with management recognition.
In organizational contexts characterized by multiple logics spanning from conformity to innovatio... more In organizational contexts characterized by multiple logics spanning from conformity to innovation, many employees experience tensions between a businesslike identity and an artistic identity. The contribution uses data generated from Web-based surveys of employees, managers, and artists in 86 Spanish companies to explore how identity tensions can be addressed with paradoxical thinking. It shows that engaging in artistic interventions can help people accept and deal with identity tensions between self-and-other and between conformity-creativity in the workplace, enabling the removal of real or subjective barriers to generating new ways of collaborating, new ideas and new ways of doing things. Résumé : Dans le monde professionnel caractérisé par des logiques multiples allant de la conformité à l'innovation, beaucoup d'employés éprouvent des tensions entre une identité professionnelle et une identité artistique. L'article mobilise des données issues d'un questionnaire en ligne auprès d'employés, managers, et artistes dans 86 entreprises espagnoles, et revisite les tensions identitaires à l'aune de la pensée paradoxale. Les résultats montrent que s'engager dans une intervention artistique permet de mieux appréhender au quotidien les tensions identitaires entre soi et les autres, entre conformité et créativité ; et de les dépasser pour renouveler les modes de collaboration, idées et méthodes de travail.
In organizational contexts characterized by multiple logics spanning from conformity to innovatio... more In organizational contexts characterized by multiple logics spanning from conformity to innovation, many employees experience tensions between a businesslike identity and an artistic identity. The contribution uses data generated from Web-based surveys of employees, managers, and artists in 86 Spanish companies to explore how identity tensions can be addressed with paradoxical thinking. It shows that engaging in artistic interventions can help people accept and deal with identity tensions between self-and-other and between conformity-creativity in the workplace, enabling the removal of real or subjective barriers to generating new ways of collaborating, new ideas and new ways of doing things. Résumé : Dans le monde professionnel caractérisé par des logiques multiples allant de la conformité à l'innovation, beaucoup d'employés éprouvent des tensions entre une identité professionnelle et une identité artistique. L'article mobilise des données issues d'un questionnaire en ligne auprès d'employés, managers, et artistes dans 86 entreprises espagnoles, et revisite les tensions identitaires à l'aune de la pensée paradoxale. Les résultats montrent que s'engager dans une intervention artistique permet de mieux appréhender au quotidien les tensions identitaires entre soi et les autres, entre conformité et créativité ; et de les dépasser pour renouveler les modes de collaboration, idées et méthodes de travail.
revised, shorter version will appear in Farías, I., & Wilkie, A., Studio Studies: Operations, Sites, Displacements. Routledge., 2015
By exploring four cases during which the artists spent five months working in a French consulting... more By exploring four cases during which the artists spent five months working in a French consulting company, I illustrate different ways in which artists enact studios in the firm. Each artistic intervention residency redefined the space and practice anew, by concentrating or distributing the artists’ research, production and exhibition activities in the organization, and sometimes using multiple studio spaces in parallel inside and outside the firm. The chapter also outlines the curatorial approach used to accompany the artists in crossing the divide between the world of the arts and the world of the organization.
An artistic intervention in
an organization can help tackle an old
problem in a new way. The ca... more An artistic intervention in
an organization can help tackle an old
problem in a new way. The case of the
Swedish company i3tex illustrates
how an artist got participants to suspend
their expertise in efficient project
management in order to engage
with each other at a personal level.
The process enabled them to develop
a new idea that they believe is more
meaningful and relevant than previous
attempts to solve their organization’s
problem.
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Books by Ariane Berthoin Antal
It is telling that the preparation of the volume was remarkably fast and collegial: all of our authors felt as strongly as we did that a research-based overview of how the field has developed over the past decade, with rich examples from different countries, types of organizations, and with diverse art forms, was urgently needed. Ulla hosted authors’ meetings twice in Sweden to discuss our chapter ideas and then our drafts, and both events bubbled with learning conversations as we compared and contrasted our cases. The learning continued in the months between and after these meetings, while we exchanged and commented on drafts via email and phone calls.
When we editors collected our thoughts for the introductory and concluding chapters this past Spring, we were struck by how much our thinking about artistic interventions had evolved with the inputs from our authors. The chapter by Lotte Darsø, one of the founders of the field, captures the revolution/evolution dynamic particularly succinctly. The contribution of chapters that illustrated problematic artistic interventions (for example by Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg and by Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg) broke new ground because the literature to date has tended to highlight only the success stories.
Looking for inspiration? For practical guidance? For theoretical orientation? Our authors gave us all these pleasures, and we now pass them on to you, our readers, with a toast!
Thank you Nancy J. Adler & Linda Ippolito; Victoria Brattström; Barbara Czarniawska; Lotte Darsø ; Marcus Jahnke; Stefan Meisiek & Daved Barry; Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg; Giovanni Schiuma & Daniella Carlucci; Anke Strauß; Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg; Nina Bozic Yams; Katarina Zambrell.
Ariane Berthoin Antal, Ulla Johansson Sköldberg and Jill Woodilla
Papers by Ariane Berthoin Antal
an organization can help tackle an old
problem in a new way. The case of the
Swedish company i3tex illustrates
how an artist got participants to suspend
their expertise in efficient project
management in order to engage
with each other at a personal level.
The process enabled them to develop
a new idea that they believe is more
meaningful and relevant than previous
attempts to solve their organization’s
problem.
It is telling that the preparation of the volume was remarkably fast and collegial: all of our authors felt as strongly as we did that a research-based overview of how the field has developed over the past decade, with rich examples from different countries, types of organizations, and with diverse art forms, was urgently needed. Ulla hosted authors’ meetings twice in Sweden to discuss our chapter ideas and then our drafts, and both events bubbled with learning conversations as we compared and contrasted our cases. The learning continued in the months between and after these meetings, while we exchanged and commented on drafts via email and phone calls.
When we editors collected our thoughts for the introductory and concluding chapters this past Spring, we were struck by how much our thinking about artistic interventions had evolved with the inputs from our authors. The chapter by Lotte Darsø, one of the founders of the field, captures the revolution/evolution dynamic particularly succinctly. The contribution of chapters that illustrated problematic artistic interventions (for example by Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg and by Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg) broke new ground because the literature to date has tended to highlight only the success stories.
Looking for inspiration? For practical guidance? For theoretical orientation? Our authors gave us all these pleasures, and we now pass them on to you, our readers, with a toast!
Thank you Nancy J. Adler & Linda Ippolito; Victoria Brattström; Barbara Czarniawska; Lotte Darsø ; Marcus Jahnke; Stefan Meisiek & Daved Barry; Elena Raviola & Claudia Schnugg; Giovanni Schiuma & Daniella Carlucci; Anke Strauß; Alexander Styhre & Jonas Fröberg; Nina Bozic Yams; Katarina Zambrell.
Ariane Berthoin Antal, Ulla Johansson Sköldberg and Jill Woodilla
an organization can help tackle an old
problem in a new way. The case of the
Swedish company i3tex illustrates
how an artist got participants to suspend
their expertise in efficient project
management in order to engage
with each other at a personal level.
The process enabled them to develop
a new idea that they believe is more
meaningful and relevant than previous
attempts to solve their organization’s
problem.
more and differently a first step towards doing things differently, it argues that an engagement with the arts can but does not automatically lead to organisational learning and
change. Applying pure business logic to an engagement with the arts is likely to impede learning from it. Hence piercing existing frames of reference is crucial to overcome routine ways of seeing. The article shows how an engagement with artists and art-making can support it and concludes with addressing challenges of turning individually made experiences with the arts into collective learning opportunities.