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.

 

Guillaume Houzé, Brand and Communications Director, Galeries Lafayette

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

Sylvain Bureau, Scientific Director

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

Research and development

  • Scientific publications
  • Doctoral theses and final dissertations
  • Improbable Siesta: seminar bringing together researchers, artists, and experts in creation
Teaching

  • Spreading the Improbable method at ESCP and beyond
  • Designing initial training in Art Thinking
  • Training Art Thinking instructors
Events

  • 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...

Group photo at the inauguration of the Improbable chair

Article

When Art meets Entrepreneurship

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.

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13042 publications

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2023

STEIGERTAHL, L., R. MAUER

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION, 2023, vol. 24 (1), pp. 7–18

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ZHOU, W., P. PELÉ, J. SCHULZE, S. PIRAMUTHU

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS, 2023, vol. 25 (5), pp. 1743-1756

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2023

WAGNER, R., H. GONZALEZ JIMENEZ, D. COSTA PINTO, K. AKDIM

Is Artificial Intelligence Threatening Our Self-Continuity? A Temporal Appraisal and Feeling Economy Perspective

in Global Marketing Conference (GMC), 2023, Seoul, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

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LAMY, E.

Is Epistemology Necessary

PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT, 2023, vol. 22(3), pp. 373-394

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PUCCIARELLI, F., C. GIACHINO, L. BOLLANI, A. BONADONNA

Is Generation Z ready to fly into the space? The future of tourism is coming.

FUTURES, 2023, vol. 145, pp. 103064

Guest Speaker in a Conference

2023

DE GEUSER, F.

Is sustainability sustainable in business schools' curriculum?

2023, Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

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2023

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE, 2023, vol. 36 (1), pp. 48-65

Conference Proceedings

2023

SENANAYAKE, S., P. CHAMAKIOTIS

IT Identity and IS Relational Switching Cost in the Context of IS Implementations

in MCIS and MENACIS 2023: 'Bridging Communities in a Digital World’, Track 11 ‘Digital Technology Governance, Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), 2023, Madrid, Spain

Other contribution

2023

VOYER, B., G.

July 23-26, 2023, GMC Global Marketing Conference (GMC), Seoul, Korea, Co-Presider of the Gala Dinner

2023

Guest Speaker in a Conference

2023

SECKLER, C., O. TERZIDIS

Keynote - Researching Forward: Design Science in Entrepreneurship

2023, FGF - G-Forum Conference 2023 - Doctoral Colloquium, Darmstadt, Germany