Making art as (transformative process of) organisational research

The study discusses the art based research (ABR) as a method to inform practice based organisational studies. It will specifically investigate how ABR might be used in conjunction with organisational research to analyse business phenomena, in this case connected to craftsmanship, building on recent experience from an ongoing European project. A group of Italian artists, the D20 Art Labs, studied the ecosystems of craftsmanship in Dals Langed, Bornholm, Venice, and Bassano del Grappa as part of the Horizon Europe Project HEPHÆSTUS (Heritage in EuroPe: new tecHnologies in crAft for prEServing and innovaTing fUtureS). This completely novel method invites consideration o f how ABR might be understood and processed to produce important data and aspects for the field of organisations studies.