Prof Dr Ariane Berthoin Antal: The Highs and Lows of Conducting Meaningful Research on Artistic Interventions in Organizations
A wide range of stakeholders are interested in the findings of research on artistic interventions in organisations. So our research can be meaningful, in the sense of being useful – to artists, employees, managers, policy-makers and other researchers, for example. The diversity of interests can also cause problems: will our work be misused by one or more of the stakeholders? Before addressing these issues, however, we first need to be clear about what would make the research meaningful to us. This workshop will enable participants to clarify their own research objectives relating to artistic interventions in organisations and how to achieve them while also recognizing the interests of other stakeholders for their work. The workshop is to address different research methods and will involve an “artful” approach to developing and communicating research ideas.