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www.serendipity-lab.com #serendipitylab @sebastianolma Creative Collaboration between Accident and Sagacity Serendipity

Creative Collaboration Between Accident & Sagacity

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Creative Collaboration between Accident and Sagacity

Serendipity

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Creative Collaboration:a harmonious process?

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Creative Collaboration

Innovation by gentle design

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Nonsense!

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Serendipity vs Harmony

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Serendipity

logic of the unsought finding

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Serendipitydiscovering something new and valuable without looking for it

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Serendipity: Invention & Discovery

teabagViagra America

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Plato: Meno’s Paradox

"[A] man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know. He cannot search for what he knows - since he knows it, there is no need to search - nor for what he does not

know, for he does not know what to look for."

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Serendipity Pattern

1. unexpected occurrence

2. anomalous observation

3. sagacious interpretation

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The Three Princes of Serendip

Etymology

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generate the potential for novelty ‘by chance’

turns the potentially new into real innovation

“… discoveries by accidents and sagacity”

Serendipity as Accidental Sagacity

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1. Accidents

infrastructures generating creative collisions

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less learning, more inventing: “mobilizing the disparate against classification”

Potential of the Digital

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Accidents as generators of creative potential

• cafeteria • mail • shops • bathrooms

Pixar

accidental encounters in corporations

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Coworking

accidental encounters

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Coworking

accidental encounters between classical organizations & digital bohemians

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The City as Serendipity Machine

metropolis as social factory: “unpredictable encounters among singularities” (Hardt & Negri)

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Amsterdamfrom squats…

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113.000 m2 | 50 locations | 3500 (work)spaces

… to broedplaatsen Amsterdam

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Amsterdam

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Economic Policy

“creative industries” as facilitators of accidental discoveries and unexpected innovation

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generate the potential for novelty ‘by chance’

turns the potentially new into real innovation

“… discoveries by accidents and sagacity”

Serendipity as Accidental Sagacity

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2. Sagacity

turning tyche into kairos

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A New Bauhaus Moment?

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A New Bauhaus Moment?

economic crisis

disorientation in art & design

challenge of technology

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Ambidexterity

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Communication Design & Energy

Ambidexterity

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Art & Construction

Ambidexterity

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Art & Engineering

Ambidexterity

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Difference between Ideology & Practice

How radically is the economic game really changing?

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…to share or not to share?

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Reanimate Game Theory?

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Creative Avant-Garde?

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Creative Avant-Garde?

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Crowdfunders Anonymous!

Creative Avant-Garde?

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Creative Avant-Garde?

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Creative Avant-Garde?

Infrastructure for proper Disruption

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Conclusion

no cuddling at the digital bauhaus!

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Conclusion

a creative, collaborative economy needs…

Accidents: multidimensional infrastructures facilitating unexpected encounters generating potential for novelty

Sagacity: a Bauhaus-inspired creative avant-garde able to negotiate the slippery terrain of innovation beyond technological superstition & ideological hyperbole

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Thank you! !

Sebastian Olma [email protected]