The veridical travel of the truly imaginary plant: Curatorial approach and underlying ideas

O projecto The Traveling Plant é um projecto colaborativo que se desenvolve através de uma rede global e tem o objectivo de ser partilhado localmente. Pretende lidar de uma perspectiva composta numa série de ações que impactam o global e vivem na localidade, transparecendo e projetando uma variedade de modos de fazer e de ver; de modo a abraçar a dualidade de práticas partilhadas e troca de saberes presente numa rede distribuída de forma virtual e física/não-virtual. Procura lidar com as questões de um fazer concentrado em perspectivas para além do simplesmente humano, que incluem o não-humano e procuram evitar formas colonialistas e antropocénicas de agir e estar. Este artigo apresenta uma estratégia curatorial e as suas questões adjacentes que o grupo de comissárias toma como ponto de partida, a estrutura organizacional para o desenvolvimento do projeto e clarifica como se vai desenrolar

An Organizational Perspective on ArtScience Collaboration: Opportunities and Challenges of Platforms to Collaborate with Artists

Artists are often seen as innovators and producers of creative and extraordinary new ideas. Additionally, experiencing art and artistic processes is an important opportunity for learning and exploration. Thus, corporations and scientific organizations have experimented with initiatives that generate artscience collaboration, such as fellowships, long-term collaborations with artists, and artist-in-residence programs. Looking at outcomes in the long-term, it is possible to identify important contributions to scientific, technological, and artistic fields that stem from artscience collaboration opportunities in organizations. On the other hand, it is often difficult to define immediate tangible outcomes of such processes as innovation as interdisciplinary interaction and learning processes are valuable experiences that do not always manifest directly in outcomes that can be measured. Drawing from cases of artscience programs and qualitative interviews with program managers, scientists, and artists, this article explores how artscience collaboration in an organization adds value and helps overcome organizational challenges regardless of such outcomes. By shifting the focus from the outcome to the process of artscience collaboration, it is possible to discover in more depth value-added contributions of artscience experiences on an individual level (e.g., new ways of knowing and thinking, understanding of materials and processes, and learning). Moreover, such contributions tell stories of connecting the process of artscience programs to the organizations’ goals of developing a new generation of leaders and driving a more adaptive, innovative culture. These benefits of artscience opportunities need to be supported by managerial activities in the organization. Thus, it enables a more differentiated understanding of possible contributions of artscience collaboration to organizations and helps to define the best model to create such opportunities. The article also recommends future research directions to further advance artscience collaboaration, especially in light of pertinent movements such as STEAM and Open Innovation, and promising developments in related fields such as neuro-aesthetics

Makes Digital Sensemaking Sense?—A Roadmap for Digital Humanism in Increasingly Transhumanist Settings

Keeping humans in the loop or bringing them back into the loop in dynamically changing socio-technical or socio-hybrid systems requires the human-centered arrangement of system designs and the adoption of digital artefacts according to human capabilities and needs. When transhumanist developments increasingly propagate through society, digital sensemaking could support their co-evolution in a sensible way. We discuss sensemaking to that end, and provide a roadmap on how to integrate sensemaking processes into capacity building processes and digitalization initiatives

Makes Digital Sensemaking Sense?—A Roadmap for Digital Humanism in Increasingly Transhumanist Settings

Keeping humans in the loop or bringing them back into the loop in dynamically changing socio-technical or socio-hybrid systems requires the human-centered arrangement of system designs and the adoption of digital artefacts according to human capabilities and needs. When transhumanist developments increasingly propagate through society, digital sensemaking could support their co-evolution in a sensible way. We discuss sensemaking to that end, and provide a roadmap on how to integrate sensemaking processes into capacity building processes and digitalization initiatives

Artistic interventions that tilt organizations : opportunities and leadership challenges

In artistic interventions artists are invited into organizations to work with management and employees on issues that concern them, such as generating ideas for new products and services, supporting skills development (e.g., leadership, communication, and creativity), or clarifying organizational identity. For this panel symposium we bring together international scholars who have studied various governance-related aspects of artistic interventions in organizations. They will address the kind of leadership that fosters or impedes the capacity of artistic interventions to tilt organizations, the roles of intermediaries who bridge between the world of the arts and the world of organizations, and the potential of artistic interventions for addressing conflict. The symposium will also include an example of a new approach to inquiry developed by an artist in the context of her PhD research to reflect on aesthetic ways of knowing in the process of addressing conflicts. Panelists are junior and senior scholars who have researched artistic interventions in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden from the perspective of the key stakeholders involved: the artist who uses her professional competencies in the process of intervening, the manager who is responsible for initiating an intervention, and the intermediary who works with employees and the artist to enable the intervention. After brief individual presentations the moderated discussion will offer session participants the opportunity to delve deeper with the panelists into experiences with different art forms and diverse cultural contexts, as well as to address difficulties that occur in artistic interventions about which little has been written