ContentsForeword: at the intersection of art and organization xxiiiMi YouOrganizational aesthetics - now more than ever xxviiMatt Statler and Steven S. Taylor1 Aesthetics and human flourishing: the art of ''Figuring Out'' 1Elena P. Antonacopoulou, Rachel Dickinson, and BeatriceBaumgartner-Cohen2 Generative AI as aesthetic creator or collaborator 22Robert D. Austin, Nicholas Cooper, and Milad Saeedi3 Museum walls and market stalls: aesthetics in cultural and creativeproduction 42Giada Baldessarelli4 Listening in organizations with Leonard Bernstein as guide 57Ralph J. Bathurst5 Askew: an-aesthetic bot response/responding to family business dynamics 76Katie Beavanand Barbara Simpson6 Forcing organization: forces of colour in the aesthetics of a factory life 90Timon Beyesand Robin Holt7 Learning with film for leadership: transfer outcomes and guidelines forself-directed leadership development 102Brigitte Biehl andJürgen Weibler8 The aesthetics of love in education: arts-based encounters as practices of care 119Tatiana Chemiand Sarah Holm9 Finding organizational sensory dissonance 134Nathalie Courtel10 Aesthetic activism in the digital era: witness bearing art and affectivepublics 153Maria Daskalaki and Dimitra Vladimirou11 The aesthetic sublime: how iconic buildings and infrastructures mayunsettle and elevate 170Federica De Molli, Alfons van Marrewijk, and Arne Carlsen12 The aesthetics shaping mindful presence 185Donatella De Paoli13 "''Twas brillig, and the slithy toves": aesthetic innovation and its linguisticextensions 193Micki Eisenman14 Beyond the plate: exploring relational, affective, and more-than-humanfood aesthetics 207Marta Gasparin and Giovanni Barone15 Educating for connection: learning hope and undoing technologies ofanti-relationality through aesthetic engagement, decolonial feminism, andaction research 224Patricia Gayá andZoe Sanderson16 Institutional sculpture 244Tim Gilman-Sevcík17 Making organizational aesthetics: curating art and artists at the StockholmSchool of Economics 265Pierre Guillet de Monthoux and Erik Wikberg18 Entrepreneurial aesthetics 285Daniel Hjorth19 Ex(f)iles in Paris: on the imperfection of writing in academic freedom 300Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert20 (Post-)phenomenological perspectives on embodied artful and aestheticalpractices of organizing and leading: critical, imaginative-utopian, andpragmatic dimensions of art and aesthetics in organization and leadershipand the "aesth-ethical" and beauty of wisdom 311Wendelin Küpers21 Aesthetic methods as transdisciplinary art: social science, social creativity,social change 333Stephen A. Linstead , Alfonso Montuori, and Claudia Schnugg22 Understanding a wall: letter to a non-reader, in the shape of a critical selfwriting about my travels between art and organizations 344Philippe Mairesse23 Aesthetic sensemaking and ambivalence 359Kaleigh May, John Paul Stephens, and Hans Hansen24 Craft and its relationship to organizational aesthetics: when masteryachieves grace 374Judith Nyfeler, Rene Wiedner, and Jochem Kroezen25 Sounding the Dee estuary: new landscape imaginaries in organizationalaesthetics 388Damian O''Doherty26 Arts-based learning: sailing towards perplexity 404Anne Pässilä and Allan Owens27 Organizing what should not be felt: the infrastructural aesthetics of aborder bridge 420Elena Raviola28 Hermeneutics of form and meaning 432Perttu Salovaara29 Women-oriented workspaces: organizational aesthetics as a tool for genderchange? 441Sigal Sapir, Varda Wasserman, and Michal Frenkel30 The arts as aesthetic technologies: the foundational principle of arts-basedmanagement 462Giovanni Schiuma31 Charcoal: gulch, grudge, fire 476Henrik Schrat, Daved Barry, and Zhao Mingyuan32 Sensory templates 503Claus Springborg33 Sons of Astro: periodic musings on the organization of time 529Matt Statler34 Feeling touched: performing organizational aesthetics and queerintervention 542Chris Steyaert35 Interacting with AI? Organizations as aesthetic, posthumanist aesthetics,and the dilemma of sensory knowing 557Antonio Strati36 Death of a professor: the unbearable heaviness of being a leader middle-manager 572Steven S. Taylor37 An inhuman share in a robot''s philosophy: film as artificial intelligence 580Martin WoodAfterword: opening aesthetic space: pioneering beauty in forbidden zones 597Christina Lessa.