TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing more and seeing differently
T2 - sensemaking, mindfulness, and the workarts
AU - Barry, Daved
AU - Meisiek, Stefan
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - The past years have seen a marked rise in arts-based initiatives in organizations, a field we term the workarts. In this paper, we review the workarts in light of sensemaking theory, and especially the role of mindfulness within it. We propose that the workarts foster mindfulness by directing attention away from immediate work concerns and towards analogous artifacts. We identify three distinctive workarts movements - art collection, artist-led intervention, and artistic experimentation. In each movement, we find analogous artifacts that defamiliarize organizational members' habitual ways of seeing and believing, enabling them to make new distinctions and to shift contexts: to see more and see differently. Our review raises a number of questions for the workarts in particular and research on analogical artifacts in general.
AB - The past years have seen a marked rise in arts-based initiatives in organizations, a field we term the workarts. In this paper, we review the workarts in light of sensemaking theory, and especially the role of mindfulness within it. We propose that the workarts foster mindfulness by directing attention away from immediate work concerns and towards analogous artifacts. We identify three distinctive workarts movements - art collection, artist-led intervention, and artistic experimentation. In each movement, we find analogous artifacts that defamiliarize organizational members' habitual ways of seeing and believing, enabling them to make new distinctions and to shift contexts: to see more and see differently. Our review raises a number of questions for the workarts in particular and research on analogical artifacts in general.
KW - Analogy
KW - Art
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Sensemaking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649424861&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0170840610380802
DO - 10.1177/0170840610380802
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649424861
SN - 0170-8406
VL - 31
SP - 1505
EP - 1530
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
IS - 11
ER -