reflected upon. The arts can help achieve this. Similarly, Tavin, Tervo and Löytönen’s chapter (‘Developing a Transdisciplinary University in Finland Through Arts Based Practices’) describes how the creation of Aalto… Click to show full abstract
reflected upon. The arts can help achieve this. Similarly, Tavin, Tervo and Löytönen’s chapter (‘Developing a Transdisciplinary University in Finland Through Arts Based Practices’) describes how the creation of Aalto University in Helsinki in 2010 from universities of, respectively, art and design, economics and technology, created an opportunity to develop institutional transciplinarity and curriculum creativity through an engagement with the arts. The introduction of a programme called the ‘university wide arts studies’ (UWAS) was an attempt to ask fundamental questions about how art could be integrated into the curriculum in order to explore ‘how creative practices enhance and support new ways of ... teaching, learning and research’ and to ask what skills ‘graduating students lack in their future lives that could be improved by art-based education’ (Tavin, Tervo and Löytönen in Chemi and Du, 2018: 244). This is, perhaps, the critical question in the whole book, while the agenda being addressed more generally here (pace a wider sense of the emerging ‘business humanities’) is summed up by Tavin, Tervo and Löytönen as follows:
               
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