Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society

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

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.