Blue – Red: What’s connecting?
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“Green on Blue” (1956) and “Light Red over Dark Red” (1955-57) Sometimes you want to remember where you were when something important happens. Yesterday, in the middle of my workshop at the Berlin Change Days, Bess comes in with the news of Biden’s victory. In the little screens in front of me arms go up
Read more...Als het niet mooi is, ben je niet dichtbij genoeg
12-10
Deze column is gepubliceerd in M&C Quarterly (2020, 3) Wat is mooi of lelijk in je organisatie? We horen het vaak: ‘Dat was een mooie tweedaagse’ of ‘Jullie hebben een mooie offerte geschreven.’ Maar wat wordt dan eigenlijk bedoeld met ‘mooi’? Of wat is het verschil wanneer iemand na een presentatie zegt: ‘Dat was een
Read more...Webinar. Gesture & Response: an inquiry into generosity
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The comings months, change facilitators will convene and address the question: In what ways can we build a vibrant global changemaker community, inspired, connected and equipped to co-create a flourishing future? The Global Change Days Festival June 26/27 will be hosted by Adam Kahane. Jouke Kruijer – Gesture & Response: an inquiry into generosity Zoom
Read more...Back to White, not to Normal! Artful knowing and organizational change, The Post-liminal (part 4)
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Back to White, the project of painting my previous work white. I have written about this as a metaphor and practice of lived experiences in my studio. And I used the concept of liminality as a grounding idea for my understanding of change in terms of rites of passage. Having discussed the separation rites and
Read more...Adam’s Apple: The sour-sweet smell of Paradise
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It never felt so green Week 5 of the lock-down. Looking outside, from my window this morning, I have not seen the sky so clear, since I was seven years old. I notice the leaves on the branches are so green they smell of green apples. Like when you put your teeth in for the
Read more...Webinar for Art in Organization, AIO Nordic network
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What to remember from this historic crisis? Art in Organization, AIO Nordic network, is hosting a 90 min free webinar tomorrow about the potential of art in organization development. Our experiences are personal, organizational and universal. In this episode I will address the question: Do artists have a vital role in organizational change, recording and
Read more...Back to White. Artful knowing and organizational change. The liminal, fieldnotes from within (part 3)
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This change story is changing I started, pre-corona, to write this series on change: my Linked-In posts as a public invitation to make sense of a very personal inquiry about changing my artistic genre. I am painting 1000 of my nude paintings white to create my first conceptual work of art, called Back to White.
Read more...Back to White. Artful knowing and organizational change: Resistance, neutral zones and empty rituals (part 2)
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Previously, in this series. To change my genre from nude painting to conceptual art, I decided to paint a 1000 of my ‘nudes’ white. This process–I called it ‘Back to White’–greatly affected my ways of thinking about art and the nature of change. It is also a core practice of my doctoral work at Ashridge
Read more...Back to White: artful knowing and organizational change: Liminality, the space in-between (part 1)
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This is the first episode to an artful series (4) on liminality and organizational change What went before To change my genre from nude painting to conceptual art, I decided to paint a 1000 of my ‘nudes’ white. This process–I called it ‘Back to White’–greatly affected my ways of thinking about art and the nature
Read more...Back to White: artful knowing and organizational change (prologue)
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This is the prologue to an artful series (4) on liminality and organizational change Doing good work well Welcome to this series of 4 articles on organizational change! Those of you who are interested in theory of change may find this inquiry worth your while. As well as those who are always on the look-out
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