About the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity
The Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC) is a centre that loves its periphery-pulling forces. It wants to extend the research-basis for understanding and practicing organizational creativity in pursuit of values that enhance our quality of life, as citizens and consumers.
ABC aims to push the boundaries by engaging across diverse disciplines, such as art history, performance research, literary composition and cultural studies. By becoming a dynamic hub that blends ethics, aesthethics and business creativity, it will continue to inspire new ways of thinking and doing.
Our Partners
IAC – Inter Arts Centre, Lund University – iac.lu.se
- Skissernas – The Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Lund University – skissernasmuseum.se
- The Pufendorf Institute, Lund University – pi.lu.se
- The Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School – cbs.dk
- The Responsible and Sustainable Business (RSB) Lab, Nottingham Business School – ntu.ac.uk
- The Hephaestus Project, funded by the EU – hephaestuscraft.eu
- Business and Design Lab (BDL), Gothenburg University – gu.se
- LUDICH, Lund University – konstnarliga.lu.se
- Future by Lund, The City of Lund and Lund University – futurebylund.se
- The Kyoto Craft Workshop, Craft and Emerging Forms of Organizing, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University – amauchi.net
- The EGOS sub-theme on Craft and Emerging Forms of Organizing – egos.org
- Centre for Business Ethics, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg – gibs.co.za
Our Team
Professor Daniel Hjorth
Ulf G. Lindén Professor in Aesthetics and Business Creativity
Centre Director
Dr. Alexandra Huang-Kokina
PostDoc researcher
Dr. Robin Porsfeldt
PostDoc researcher
Lina Lanterno
Design & Communication
The Hamrin Foundation Visiting Researcher Program
Visiting researchers continuously announced.
Dr. Vittoria Magrelli
Free University of Bolzano, Italy
September 9-20, 2024
Prof. Damian O’Doherty
School of Management, University of Liverpool
December 10-13 2024
Prof. Roberto Verganti
Stockholm School of Economics
9-21st of February, 2025
Prof. Mollie Painter
Nottingham Business School
March 17-28, 2025
Advisory board
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux – hhs.se
Prof. Scientific Director, The Art Initiative
Stockholm School of Economics
Hedvig Jalhed – portal.research.lu.se
Dr., Director, Inter Arts Center,
Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University,
Pia Kinnhult – linkedin.com
Head of Host States Relations and High Level Industrial Forum, ESS,
Chairperson Future by Lund
Jesper Larsson– arts.lu.se
Head of Production/Planning/Audience, Malmö Opera,
Former CEO Malmö Live, Project Manager, LUDICH
Max Liljefors– kultur.lu.se
Prof. Art History and Visual Studies
Annie Lindberg – skissernasmuseum.lu.se
Museum Director
Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art
Our Supporters
The Centre is founded with thanks to the generous support of:
Lindéngruppen
Lindéngruppen – lindengruppen.com
The Hamrin Foundation
Hamrin foundation – hamrinfoundation.com
Åsa and Jan Söderberg
Contact ABC
Daniel Hjorth
Ulf G. Lindén Professor in Aesthetics and Business Creativity
Centre Director