Space, Freedom and Playfulness

Aesthetic intervention to Leadership & Organization

Jouke KruijerKruijerVermeerAmsterdam www.kruijervermeer.comwww.joukekruijer.nlj.kruijer @kruijervermeer.coml

MetanoiaHelsinki 24 August 2013

Program

Create collective drawing

Introduction Create a personal canvass

Make a composition together

10 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes 10 minutes

Frame

Aeshtetics: sensory knowledge and felt meaning of objects and experiences

Objective: Stimulate individual and collective creativity

Hypothesis: This inquiry allows us richer insight into the dynamics of organisational Life

Ecological field trip

How are living systems connected?

Create work of art

How can we trust and enjoy a process of emergence?

Aesthetic experience

Where to begin

Trust emergence

When to stop

1. Set conditions2. Take a not knowing position3. Just start with a smear or a

blot

1. Trust simple rules2. Use white3. Zoom in and out

1. The present canvas is the study for the next

2. A new painting is just another layer

3. Creating is an infinite game

Create a collective drawing

Assignment 1

Paint: What is the world calling for?

black, white, buff

Ernst Reijseger: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

10 minutes

Create a personal canvass (1)

Walk around the collective drawing

Select a piece you like

Tear or cut it out

Paste it on to small canvass

5 minutes

Simple Rules

Create a personal canvass (2)

Assignment 2

Paint: What is the strength you are contributing?

Use coloured paint/paper

10 minutes

Philip Glass and London Philharmonic Orchestra, The American Four Seasons

Play together

Assignment 3

Collaborate in silence to make a coherent whole?

10 minutes

Reflection

Why is this an emergent process?