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Arts and Organisations

Creativity at our heart: the arts give expression to difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems.

Arts practices offer ways of knowing that support complex change processes and deepen understanding.

We work with performance, visual and literature expression to help us with difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems. 

Much of our work deals with ambiguity and relational complexity. Traditional research and consultancy methods often struggle to engage with these dimensions.

A different kind of access

Artistic practice offers a different kind of access, often sensory and embodied, it invites reflection, imagination, and emotional resonance, offering alternative insights into work and organisational systems and space for new possibilities.

Artistic practice makes the systems we work in real: it situates us and helps to contain tensions safely. In times when virtual interactions and digital technologies are becoming more pervasive than ever, sensory practices are vital and to our work in improving the quality of work life. 

Bringing artists into dialogue with social scientists, practitioners, and organisations, the work has generated a community of artists-in-organisations and acts as an expansive container for a wide range of arts and creativity practices and programmes.

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