Arts and organisations
- What is the arts and organisations approach?
It uses performance, visual and literary practice to give expression to difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems, particularly where ambiguity and relational complexity resist traditional research and consultancy methods.
- Why use artistic practice in organisational work?
Artistic practice offers a different, often sensory and embodied kind of access. It invites reflection, imagination and emotional resonance, and helps contain tensions safely within the systems people work in.
- Who is involved in the Tavistock’s arts and organisations work?
The Institute brings artists into dialogue with social scientists, practitioners and organisations, generating a community of artists-in-organisations across a range of arts and creativity practices and programmes.
Creativity at our heart: the arts give expression to difficult emotions, uncertainty, power and the unspoken dynamics that shape organisations and systems.
Part of TIHR’s transdisciplinary character and its long engagement with the arts as a way of knowing organisations from the inside.
Our 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.
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.
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.