Collaborations – ABC
Projects
OPERACTIVE: Redefining classical music and opera across borders
A collaboration between the Centre for Aesthetics and Business Creativity (ABC), the Malmö Academy of Music (MAM), the Inter Arts Centre (IAC) and the research cluster on “Creativity, AI, and the Human” at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), University of Edinburgh. The partnership promises to explore the untapped intersections of business studies, aesthetics, creativity studies, and the fine and performing arts by bridging performing art, AI creativity and entrepreneurship.
Guest PhD 2024-2025
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Daniel Hjorth
Ulf G. Lindén Professor in Aesthetics and Business Creativity
Centre Director
Alexandra Huang-Kokina
Post Doc Researcher
Robin Porsfelt
Post Doc Researcher
lina [dot] lanterno [at] fek [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Lanterno)
Design and Communication

Adelina Tordiglione
PhD candidate in Management at ESCP Business School – escp.eu
Guest PhD presentations
PhD. Adelina Tordiglione
ESCP Business School
Guest PhD 22nd of October 2025
Adelina Tordiglione is a PhD Candidate in Management at ESCP Business School. Her research investigates how traditional crafts endure over time and the tension between tradition and novelty. She is also interested in the entangled relationship between craft and technology, exploring how socio-material assemblages challenge binary conceptions of labour and production.
PhD Tordiglione will present her work at a seminar on 22nd of October 2025.
Our Partners
IAC – Inter Arts Centre, Lund University – iac.lu.se
Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University - mhm.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