Anne Pässilä
Éducatrice artistique et chercheure à Lahti School of Innovation, Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finlande).
Creating collaborative spaces : The garden of Jatuli workshop
Comment l’art peut-il aider les gestionnaires à appréhender un problème collectivement afin d’y faire émerger la solution?
Cet atelier permettra de discuter, d’expérimenter et de comprendre, à partir d’une étude de cas, quelle serait une bonne structure pour les praticiens qui désirent intégrer l’art dans leur organisation.
La métaphore du « Jardin de Jatuli » décrit bien la nature de cet atelier, en plus de présenter le côté social de l’innovation. Cette image provient d’un ancien rituel finlandais qui stipule qu’une personne, ayant une question en tête, marche vers le centre de la forêt et trouve sa réponse à travers le partage et l’interaction.
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All innovative activity – understood as trying out of a new opportunity or action (Witt, 1996), involves generation and use of knowledge. Knowledge is therefore often assumed to be the most valuable resource of a firm. Creation of new knowledge is conceptualised as recombination and exchange of existing knowledge (Teigland & Wasko, 2003). Brökel and Binder (2007) discussed two types of knowledge transfers: intended and unintended. In intended knowledge transfers, actors actively seek knowledge, whereas unintended knowledge transfers occur when an individual ‘stumbles upon’ knowledge. Both are important with regard to innovation, but whether intended or unintended, both transfers are challenged by the fact that people’s ideas and aspirations are ‘uncontrollable’ from the perspective of hierarchical management. New management practice is thus needed.
In this study, tools and methods of artistic mediation are linked to managerial innovation via the concept of knowledge creation. We first present an extended SECI model of knowledge creation, and thereafter link that model to methods of artistic mediation. This results in a framework for considering managerial innovation in a new way. We discuss how knowledge may be created, focusing particularly on different modes of knowledge and their conversions (interaction between different types of knowledge) and how that may be aided in practice with artistic mediation.
Cet atelier permettra de discuter, d’expérimenter et de comprendre, à partir d’une étude de cas, quelle serait une bonne structure pour les praticiens qui désirent intégrer l’art dans leur organisation.
La métaphore du « Jardin de Jatuli » décrit bien la nature de cet atelier, en plus de présenter le côté social de l’innovation. Cette image provient d’un ancien rituel finlandais qui stipule qu’une personne, ayant une question en tête, marche vers le centre de la forêt et trouve sa réponse à travers le partage et l’interaction.
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All innovative activity – understood as trying out of a new opportunity or action (Witt, 1996), involves generation and use of knowledge. Knowledge is therefore often assumed to be the most valuable resource of a firm. Creation of new knowledge is conceptualised as recombination and exchange of existing knowledge (Teigland & Wasko, 2003). Brökel and Binder (2007) discussed two types of knowledge transfers: intended and unintended. In intended knowledge transfers, actors actively seek knowledge, whereas unintended knowledge transfers occur when an individual ‘stumbles upon’ knowledge. Both are important with regard to innovation, but whether intended or unintended, both transfers are challenged by the fact that people’s ideas and aspirations are ‘uncontrollable’ from the perspective of hierarchical management. New management practice is thus needed.
In this study, tools and methods of artistic mediation are linked to managerial innovation via the concept of knowledge creation. We first present an extended SECI model of knowledge creation, and thereafter link that model to methods of artistic mediation. This results in a framework for considering managerial innovation in a new way. We discuss how knowledge may be created, focusing particularly on different modes of knowledge and their conversions (interaction between different types of knowledge) and how that may be aided in practice with artistic mediation.