Bramstrup 2006

Conference:

Tactility – the Art of feeling your way forward

- Performing the Five senses in the search of Novelty

As a part of Bramstrup Performing Arts 2006, the Centre for Art & Leadership (CAL) will produce an encore of the last three years’ integration of leadership development and academic research amid a performing arts festival going on

16th – 18th June.

Basic context

The concept of knowledge sharing is highly developed at Bramstrup. Working within the aesthetically spectacular surroundings of a traditional farming estate (now a site for cutting-edge agricultural research), we combine performing arts with philosophical inquiry and leadership research in a special mix that has created a significant attraction among artists, managers, and business school researchers since 2003.

Musical performance serves as a laboratory for developing a new sensitivity in relation to the tactile event. This year will focus on an overall understanding of the five senses and their role in achieving novelty and recognizing the potential of emerging ideas.

The performers participating at Bramstrup will this year be completely integrated in the conference schedule and also be at hand for the workshops and seminars to emphasize the value of aesthetic knowledge sharing.

Tactility will be understood on more than one level – both as a personal virtue that includes empathy towards other human beings, and also as an instinct or intuitive understanding of the right development in specific creative situations.

The overall conference theme

‘Tactility’ will then function as a basis for leadership and innovation both metaphorically and in practical terms. The idea is to catch the essence and by this gain access to the powers and virtual scope that employees and technology are hiding. It is about feeling your way forward, to sharpen your attention, and to rehearse your sense for pointing to the inevitable.

It is about strategic patience, to allow space for an improvisational logistic, and about how to anticipate and foresee the fixed point where the power of change breaks through to the surface.

Improvisation and innovation will be explored in the context of leadership and the  organizational entity, using the expressive language of the performing arts.

Throughout the conference an additional series of sense stimulating events will take place around meals and conversations.

Conference schedule

June 16  Morning: Arriving Afternoon: Seminar I: Philosophy of Innovation: "How is novelty sensed, how value can be realized” Evening: Performance: Jens Schou, clarinet Improvisation and space

June 17 Morning: Seminar II: Tactility as a human virtue: “ Feeling your way – a tactile force of action”  Afternoon: Performance: Ingrid Kristensen, Dancetheatre, Fragrance and Solo Dance Evening: Post performance open space discussion Dionysian symposium

June 18  Morning: Seminar III: Making “sense” The notion of Leadership in an Innovative context Afternoon: Performance: Bramstrup Madrigals Late afternoon: outdoor picnic Departure

Keynote Speakers

Professor, Dr. Phil. Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Centre for Art & Leadership, D.K.

Associate Professor Robert D. Austin, Harvard Business School, U.S.A (Visiting Professor at CBS)

More to be announced

Facilitators

Artistic Director Peter Hanke, Centre for Art & Leadership, D.K.

Violinist and Visting Professor Paul Robertson (U.K.)

Dancer Ingrid Kristensen

More to be announced

Facilitators from the Centre for Art & Leadership at the Copenhagen Business School will participate in the entire conference guiding the open space activities and the workshops.

Speakers, Facilitators, Performers: Short biographys will be available on this webpage medio March

Language: English (Danish partly, if special requests occur in open space or workshops)

Register

Conference fee: DKR 6.000 dkr. (including meals and tickets for performances, eksklusive accomodation and transportation)

Reduced fee for students and artists: DKR 2.200 (including meals and tickets for performances, eksklusive accomodation and transportation)

Register for the event

Questions relating to registration contact: Centre for Art & Leadership, Rikke Ørtved –

roe.lpf@cbs.dk - phone +45 3815864

Bramstrup Performing Arts is produced by Exart Performances

Questions relating to the programme, contact: Mads Olsen – phone +45 26791104