Research

I began in research in 1985 working on a study for the future of textiles in the US fashion industry and was hired by the trustees of Boston University to create a competitive analysis of the management education market in Europe, where it was competing. Essentially I was looking at the “future of..” different industries and that became my focus as a consultant for serving global clients like 3M, Du Pont, General Electric, Dow, Exxon, Bayer and later General Motors Europe and then branching into knowledge management, competitive intelligence, human genomics and leadership coaching. Today, I am examining the inflection of creativity upon decision making especially in leadership coaching.

Supervised by organizational behavior specialist Dr. Abraham R. Shani, author of Behavior in Organizations (2020) and Professor of Organization Behavior and Development and, Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at California Polytechnic State University, I co-published on parallel learning structures for technology transfer which featured in Parallel Learning Structures: Increasing Innovation in Bureaucracies (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development). I am currently a Research Scholar on the Futures of Coaching at Columbia University in New York.

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  • 2023 Research Scholar on the Futures of Coaching at Columbia University in New York.

  • 2022 Fulbright Research Scholar on Intercultural collaboration, Indira Gandi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi

  • 2022 Fulbright Research Scholar on aesthetics and visual cultures, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India

  • 2019-2021 Research on Creativity and Leadership, Columbia University

  • 2021 Visiting Research Scholar in International and Transcultural Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

  • 2016 Field Research Fellow, US Department of State Sponsored American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  • 2015-2017 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • 2015-2021 present Editorial Boardmember for ProjectAnywhere, peer-reviewed research journal

  • 1998 Research on Contemporary Art in East Asia, Taipei Biennial, Taiwan

  • 1991-1992 Advertising research on Germany Lowe Lürzer GmbH Frankfurt, Germany

  • 1989-1991 Competitive Intelligence and International Strategy. Strategic Analysis Europe, Brussels, Belgium

  • 1988-1989 Research on Technology Transfer Models 1988-1989 California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. Dankook University Press, Seoul

  • 1986-1988 Research on International Management Education, Boston University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels Faculty of Economic and Social Science, Brussels, Belgium.

Publications and Presentations

Editor for ProjectAnywhere, University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design, contributor to books and publications since 1990. Currently research coaching in the cultural industries.

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  • (2020) Journal for Artistic Research, Bern

  • (2018) “Interfacing Technology with Site” ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea Ÿ

  • (2018) Looking to New Institutional Models: China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century, Ching, N and Tanner, L, (eds), Long Museum, Shanghai, China

  • Joynes, L et al (2019). Emerging models for teaching, New York: Critical Practices

  • (2019).“The Artist as Explorer,” in Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (2018) O’Neill,  R and Werner, J (eds.), Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars

  • Joynes, L and Vu, T (2018). DrawnOver: Museum of Contemporary Art [catalogue]

  • (2016). “Geographically Dispersed Performance in Brazil (2012-2013) and Mongolia (2014) Sao Paulo, Brazil: Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo [post-doctoral thesis]

  • (2015). Anywhere v.1.(2015). Lowry, S. and Douglas, S. (eds.), Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne and New York: Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons, New School, New York

  • (2015) “The Artist as Explorer,” Washington D.C.: College Arts Association Conference

  • (2015) Les Joynes and Thomas Vu in Interview at Columbia University in Draw: Artists from China at Inside Out Art Museum, New York: LeRoy Neiman Foundation [catalogue]

  • Joynes, L (2014). “FormLaboratory” in Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity (2014) Lowry, S and Douglas, S. (eds.). Newcastle, Australia: University of Newcastle

  • (2014). “Nomadic and Geographically Dispersed Practices” Chicago: College Arts Association Conference

  • Joynes, L. and Basu, S (2011). Journal for Visual Culture. Irvine: University of California, Irvine

  • Multi-spatial Performance: at Bauhaus-Dessau, November 2008:  record dances, Bühnenstudios der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau [Internet]

  • (2007) “Cost Analyses for LEED Manufacturing Competitive Strategies, New York

  • (2004) “Intelligent IT interface to genomics” Genetic testing legislation: US and Iceland: Implications and Strategies and Models for Japan, Tokyo, Japan

  • (2004) “Bringing Intelligent IT interface to human healthcare” Legislation of genetic testing in the US and Iceland Legilslative Implications and Strategies

  • (2003) Clinical research development in human aging, Tokyo, Japan

  • The Human Genome: Areas of Light and Shadow (E.Kon et al, Shokabo Publishing, Tokyo) 2002

  • (1999) Art in America

  • (1998). Contemporary British art in the 1990s, Vienna: Springer. • (1998) Scientific Journal Editor, Tohoku University, Japan

  • (1991) Emerging materials applications in sound: use of polycarbonates for digital audio, Germany

  • (1991) “Resourcing Tetra-butyl hydro-peroxide for radical polymerization initiators, EU

  • Joynes, L, and Shani, A (1990) Managing The Technology Transfer Process: The Parallel Learning Mechanism, Seoul, Korea: Dankook University Press

  • (1990) Competitive Strategies in Fiber-optic technologies, US. (1990) ”Radiative mineral spectrometry and refraction technologies,” Brussels

  • (1989) “Petroleum and derivatives competitive Analysis Europe

  • (1989) Introducing eco-recyclables into automobile manufacturing,” Netherlands

  • (1987) “the Future of Global Business Education in Europe” Boston University.

Workshops

Building cross-cultural dialogue through online and hybrid workshops that foster skills development and mutual understanding.

 

  • 2022  “Cross-cultural Professional development in Action”, US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

  • 2022 Curating Site Specificity in India, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India

  • 2021 American Association of Museums and Galleries

  • 2021 Cross-cultural pedagogies, Pedagogy 2.0 Conference Teachers College, New York

  • 2019 Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing

  • 2018 Plenary Keynote to the School of Art PhD Program, Peking University, Beijing

  • 2018 Art and Social Practice Chair, ProjectAnywhere, Parsons School of Art

  • 2018 Long Museum Shanghai, China Workshop on new models for Chinese museums

  • 2018 Long Museums Shanghai, China. New models for Chinese cultural institutions

  • 2017 Bard Smolny Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

  • 2017 US Public Diplomacy and Cooperation in China, Inside-Out Art Museum

  • 2017 Columbia University Global Center Beijing, China

  • 2016 Young Researchers Conference (Co-Chair) American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar

  • 2016 Intercultural collaboration across borders, College Arts Association Conference, New York

  • 2015 Creativity as Intercultural Interface, Teachers College, Columbia University

  • 2015 Cambridge University Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

  • 2015 Young Researchers Conference, Ulaanbaatar. Co-Chair

  • 2015 Mongolian National University for Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar

  • 2015 University of the Arts London Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation

  • 2014 Zanabazar Museum of Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Multi-media performances

  • 2014 National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China • 2014 College Arts Association Conference, Chicago

  • 2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • 2012 Modes of Intercultural collaboration. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • 2012 Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea

  • 2012 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, South Korea

  • 2011 Initiatives for the Mayor’s Office in the City of New York, Columbia University Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship

  • 2009 Treignac-Projet, Correze, France. Multi media process-art experimental workshops

  • 2009 La Salle College of Art and Nanyang Academy of Art, Singapore, Bauhaus Workshops

  • 2008 Bauhaus Foundation, Germany, interdisciplinary workshop

  • 2005 University of California Santa Barbara, CA

  • 2001 Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Academic Appointments, Research and Teaching

 

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2022)

Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award Scholar in the School of Arts and Aesthetics.

Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY (2021)

Columbia Visiting Scholars and Scientists Program 2009-present. Visual Cultures Scholar Department of Art History and Archeology (2018-2020) Teachers College, Department of Art and Education, Scholar in Art, Education and Curriculum Design (2016-2018); Columbia University Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School (2011); Scholar in the Department of Philosophy (2011-2012); School of Art, Scholar in Contemporary Art (2008-2010).

Peking University, Beijing, China (2018-present)

Global Engagement Liaison, Peking University Department of Postdoctoral Affairs 2018-present. Visiting Professor, Peking University Creative Industries Summer Program 2018. Teaching cultural entrepreneurship and strategic analysis for cultural industries.. Plenary Speaker on Art and Research on the PhD, Doctoral Program in the School of Art (2018).

Renmin University of China Beijing, China (2013-present)

Visiting Professor, School of Art; Professor of Record, American Art History from Modern to Contemporary. Professor of Record, Site-specific Art Practices: Performance and Installation. 2017 Teaching Award.

University of the Arts London London, UK (2015)

Fellow, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)

Musashino Art University Tokyo, Japan (1998-2001)

Bachelor of Arts Research Scholar and Visiting Teacher in Department of Sculpture