Shifting Your Paradigm
Art Thinking Studio Helps you Transform your Reality learning with and through the Improbable….
address Turbulence, Paradoxes and Uncertainty of our times in your Organization, teams and beyond
…infuse your reality with:
- Art informed intelligence
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reconfigure your thinking and action cruise on polarities…
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Move away from linear, anthropocentric, mechanistic and ordered
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Embrace Uncertainty Disorder non-linearity
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Discover creative process and tools to navigate complexity and messiness
Why Artthinking?
What We Do
“Because entrepreneurs are closer to artists than any other profession, we need to look at how artists are trained to redefine how we train entrepreneurs.”
“Steve Blanc – Founder of Lean Start Up – Prof. at Stanford”
Improbable. Experiential . Unforgettable.
Scientifically founded | Extraordinary Pedagogy | Experiential Learning | Immediate and Longlasting
“All our content is scientifically validated and tested by real-life experts in the real world –
Each experience is extra-ordinary – probably the first and last time of your life that you will be an artist – and it ends with an Improbable vernissage.
Each participant will be able to leverage what they have learned and deepen it over time.”
The pieces of art produced by the participants transform their vision of what is, and what could be. During the exhibitions, many taboos and questions are raised. New perspectives are outlined and improbable changes become more certain.
Applications and Impacts
Help Managers and Executives navigate
Shaping bold strategies for shifting environments
Talent and High Potential
Equipping emerging leaders to turn the unexpected into opportunities.
Support entrepreneurs & innovators
Fostering the creation of new business models and cultural mindsets
Strengthen Managers Leadership
Empowering managers to navigate the transformative impact of AI and ecological transitions.
Impacts
Innovation with method
You learn how to make progress without waiting for perfect clarity.
You adopt practical tools to move fast, test ideas, and adjust along the way, essential when goals are shifting or unclear.
More aligned Teams
Through hands-on collaboration, you can develop sharper emotional intelligence and learn how to turn diversity and disagreement into team strength. You leave better equipped to motivate, align, and lead with purpose.
Lead Transformation
You gain the ability to challenge outdated ways of working and spark new momentum. By adopting a creator’s mindset, you stop reacting and start shaping the future with vision and confidence..
What our Participants Say:
“I am simply amazed by the relevance or Art Thinking it is a must have for entrepreneurs !”
Taiozo Son CEO Mistleto – (Venture Capital Firm) Asia
“Our managers have developed their entrepreneurial leadership.”
PATRICK CHAPUIS — CEO, Canon France
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“I was impressed by the process and the impact for the participants; It is really transformatif.”
Jack Fuchs Teacher Stanford University
The Improbable Seminar
Agile Art Thinking process.
It has similarities with other methods like rapid prototyping,test and learn approach constant feedback, for instance.
Through a flexible, iterative scrum based art-making process, Improbable teaches teams to view uncertainty as a space for exploration.
Participants develop a strong, open-minded attitude, learning to approach ambiguity as an opportunity for meaningful, values-driven innovation.
Photo credit: Koen Schnoekx Art Economy Belgium
Art Thinking Process
The Improbable Seminar:
An Art Thinking Experience, co-created by Professor Sylvain Bureau and the artist Pierre Tectin,
“This way of learning is different “because it goes beyond knowledge or even competencies”.
“It offers people a safe space to practise exercising their agency to contribute to sustainable transitions — as individuals, as members of organizations and, collectively…”
Award winning Pedagogy:
“Highly Commended”
The Financial Times, “Rising to the Challenge” – 2025 – Awards.
“Winner”
Inspiring Course Category, 2025 Independent Higher Education (IHE) Awards
“Bronze”
Developing Emerging Skills & Competencies category at the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2025
About Us
The Nature of today’s solution spaces transcends Business, Design or even science and engineering ; most problems in our time need cross-cutting adisciplinary or even anti-disciplinary vision.
Art Thinking facilitates the activation and connection with a Field of perception that precedes intervention.
Clients come us to:
Address the paradoxes they are entrenched in
Strengthen their capabilities to embrace uncertainty and unknown.
Inform their process with value based design and entrepreneurial effectuation.
Clients return to us –
Once they have a glimpse of the Unknown to:
– Build their capability, to address the paradoxes,
– Build their muscles and cruise on the ambiguities.
We help you:
– to Apprehend complexity, use systemic lenses and systems thinking
– Experience and hold polarity and paradox
– Apply agile adaptive process in face of the Unknown
Who
.Kai Costantini – Art Thinking Process Trainer – she has experience in Executive Search and HR IT / IT Project Coordinator Roles in pharma, agro business med/biotech across Europe and Logistics for IT migration projects and as Business Consultant.
She transformed her career to become a sustainability professional and trained as a Biomimetic Practitioner (Biosinspired Design) and in Circularity and serves on the Advisory Board of Alberta Biomimicry. – She has been selected as Ambassador to the Circular Institute and the Global Community Bio Summit CoP.
Kai has been building up entrepreneurial capabilities as an Innovation Ninja in the Alberta Rainforest Tech Innovation Ecosystem building up high impact high feasibility startup ideas and organizing the Nrg Cosia Carbon Xprize Hackathon side event for the Alberta Rainforest.
Kai works with many system level initiatives at INCOSE Intl. Council for Systems Engineering: as Core team member of the Sust.WG & Sustainable Together Lab ; former co chair of the Natural Systems WG, former facilitator of Complexity Weekend and Adventures online 2020-2023, a p2p Complexity Science learning community and enterprise evolution a think tank for systemic management Innovation.
Kai has a life long plastic Art practice trained by Sculptor Frederic Marquis (Beaux Art de Paris) – she has used Art as a means to transform Business, implement IT systems and change, – her start up project Art2B was selected by Plug&Play Poitiers in 2001. She exhibits at Terrasse Lautreamont aux Halles Paris, in Mairie de Montreuil, Mairie du 19eme and at the Bio Creation station Bio Art and Design.
Art Thinking Network
What Participants have to say:
“Our managers have developed their entrepreneurial leadership.”
PATRICK CHAPUIS — CEO, Canon France
“I am simply amazed by the relevance or Art Thinking it is a must have for entrepreneurs !”
Taiozo Son CEO Mistleto – (Venture Capital Firm) Asia
“I was impressed by the process and the impact for the participants; It is really transformatif.”
Jack Fuchs Teacher Stanford University
Why Us?
A boutique Agency and Studio we have a long standing experience to lead transformative art based executive training sessions but also lead organizational and systemic change through our affiliate studios the Robust Design Studio and the Bauhaus Transition Studio – we are deeply networked into innovation – systems engineering, tech and bio-informed and bio inspired spaces which meet in the extended networking ecosystems spaces like Art Thinking Space to practice novel collaborative process in trans-disciplinary Ensembles to address the paradoxes of our times.
… build your Art Thinking mindset
