Sometimes it happens that we find ourselves in a room where a conversation takes place that stays with us. We sense a spark, or what Gaston Bachelard would call a “poetic moment” – a moment of rupture, of intensity. Through poetry, we can experience these moments, that make us stop and wonder – moments that open our imagination to think anew (Bachelard, 2013). Can there also be moments that make us to reimagine what research can be, even in a mundane classroom at a business school? A university classroom is maybe not what we would recall as a small, intimate poetic space in itself, very far from being a cozy cupboard, drawer, or seashell (Bachelard, 2014). But the space becomes what we fill it with, and at certain moments, the act of being together – truly engaging in conversations – in the (physical) room of the seminar, we sense it… Moments of ‘aha’s’. Of rupture. Of intuition. Of sense of belonging. Of sharing. Poetic moments in academia? We, a group of artists and scientists, met in a panel, in a classroom at Linnaeus University in Kalmar during the yearly conference on business administration, organized by The Swedish Academy of Business and Management
(‘FEKIS’, in Swedish) in the fall of 2025. How to recall it? How to share it? How to make you, the reader of this text, feel it? It cannot be created again; it was back there, back then. Instead of trying to recall and re-iterate what happened in the room, we started a conversation about why we need to create these rooms, rooms where art and science meet. Rooms where artists and scientists meet. This text written in form of a dialogue that departs from such a moment, in a seminar where the authors of the text engaged in a conversation about art and science. Who is speaking in the dialogue?
- Rooms of Wonder: A Post Seminar Discussion about Art and Science
- Matilda Dahl - Företagsekonomiska institutionenCarolina Frände - Stockholm UniversityMaria GrafströmAnna Jonsson - Stockholm University
- Art Culture and Entrepreneurship, Vol.3(1), pp.31-39
- © 2025 Matilda Dahl, Carolina Frände, Maria Grafström and Anna Jonsson. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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