Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society

An increased understanding of art and art-based-methods is needed to address the behavioral and cultural change in the sustainability transition. This edited collection explores ways to engage people in their citizen, consumer, employer, employee and entrepreneurial roles, as they grapple with the sustainability transition. It introduces art and arts-based methods to advance sustainability thinking. As a unique contribution to sustainability research, this book presents insights from artists, art organizations and specialists using arts-based-methods in education, organizational innovation and citizen engagement. The book will provide inspiring insights to scholars and students of sustainability, innovation, corporate strategy, and creativity in business.

Explores the potential of art-based methods as a tool for enticing behavioral change Includes theoretical and practical perspectives and real world case studies Provides innovating practices and routines for organizations

Auteur

Hanna Lehtimäki is a Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Eastern Finland Business School. Her research examines sustainable innovation and renewal with theoretical frameworks on strategic management, stakeholder theory, leadership and networks. Her current research focuses on transition to sustainable circular economy. Her articles have appeared in academic journals internationally and she has authored and co-authored books on strategic management and leadership.

Steven S. Taylor is Professor of Leadership and Creativity at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Business School, USA. His research is focused in two areas, organizational aesthetics and reflective practice. The former applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. The latter focuses on the ability to analyse our own actions and learn how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders.

Mariana Galvão Lyra is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated to the LUT Business School, Finland. She works as a project manager and does research on public acceptance of emerging technologies for energy transitions at the Greenrenew platform. Prior to LUT University, Mariana has been involved in initiatives and research projects on the interlinks of natural resources, environment, and society at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), from where she got her PhD on environmental policy.

Contenu

1 Art in Sustainability Transitions 1 Hanna Lehtimäki, Mariana Galvão Lyra, and Steven S. Taylor 2 Artistic Data: Rise of Data-Driven Call to Action in Climate Change and Sustainable Futures 11 Indira Venkatraman and Ralph Adler 3 Art in Fostering Our Capacity to Re-Imagine the Sustainable Future 31 Hanna Lehtimäki, Siiri Piironen, and Mark Isaac 4 The Arts Mobilizing Communities: From Socially Engaged Arts to Social Artrepreneurship 55 Victor Renza, Kirsti Reitan Andersen, Christian Fieseler, Fiona McDermott, and Róisin McGannon 5 Games, Business, and Gamers: How to Facilitate a Game Accessibility Transition across the Gaming Ecosystem? 79 Lobna Hassan, Pekka Buttler, and Mikko Vesa viii Contents 6 Art as Orchestrated Serendipity. Leaving Behind Outcome Prediction in Arts-Based Methods to Foster Sustainability in Organizations 109 Thomas Blonski 7 Towards Developing Responsible Managers: Using Art for Social Change 129 Padhmanabhan Vijayaraghavan and Divya Singhal 8 RawTag: Art andEducation for Sustainability 147 Hassiba Fadli, Beatriz Acevedo, Romas Malevicius, and Carmen Lamberti 9 The Entrepreneurial Fashion Designer as an Agent of Sustainable Innovation: A Namibian Case Study 177 Chakirra Claasen, Cyrlene Claasen, and Melanie Sarantou 10 The Journey of a Freak: The Role of Frivolous Archetypes in Sustainable Leadership Practices 207 Rita Tóth and Sándor Takács 11 Can the Arts Be Used to Change the Fundamentally Unsustainable, Socio-Economic Structures that Dominate the Modern World? 241 Steven S. Taylor, Mariana Galvão Lyra, and Hanna Lehtimäki <p