Prof. h.c. Dr. Urs Hauenstein is the Visiting Professor of Management and Education at Liverpool Hope University and an artist with more than 40 years of experience. He acts as well as entrepreneurial-thinking President of various non-profit organisations and institutions in the UK, Europe and Eastern Europe, e.g. International Council for Education and Management, Swiss Quality Competencies and Qualifications, the Institutes of Competencies and Qualifications and the International Network for Accreditation, Recognition and Dissemination.
Presentation: The Process of Art
Working with the process of art in transition for a good world. e.g., the art of education/management training.
My project work and developments always incorporate a part as an art process, which has many unplanned elements and where, during the process work, new paths emerge that lead me to the next phases of the work and new necessities.
Whether I’m painting a picture in acrylic or making notes in my manual for a new project, or creating mind maps of the process and stakeholders, or when I’m planning and visually preparing the work components in a management process, the parallels to the artistic process are clearly evident.
The crucial thing is that nothing was clear beforehand, and that new paths and routes open up and emerge in the process of colour, drawing, and design.
Process work is therefore very creative and artistic and is inherently a search and discovery, and thus a new learning process.
If unsatisfactory partial or intermediate results emerge, the development and work process is extended, as if in a new loop, and the development process then reveals how long the growth must continue until it reaches the necessary success to qualify as art.
In my presentation at CArtsCon 2025, I will show examples of such real art processes, which I documented with photos and videos.
I hope that by doing so, I can encourage participants and readers to become artists themselves, in life, or in fields such as education, business, social work, technology, and much more.
Transforming the world for a better future requires new artistic processes and discovering alternative, possible paths that were previously invisible.