Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Who will we visit when?!
Sun 9. march: Depart from Rotterdam to Berlin
Mon 10. march: Berlin: selfHUB Frauke / KaosPilots
leave to Prague
Tue 11. march: Prague
Wed 12. march: Prague, DOM / Circles of white
Thu 13. march: Bratislava/Viena
Fri 14. march: Bratislava/Viena
Sat 15. march: Llubjana
Sun 16. march: Party, resting day
Mon 17. march: Geneva
Tue 18. march: Bruxelles
Wed 19. march: back to Rotterdam
Wanna be on our list? Leave a comment and/or drop us an email: eurostars@kaospilots.nl
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Further links and inspiration
Sometimes you just need an injection of new energy...
Try this article.
It is right on spot.
headline in danish, but the article in english.
http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/default.asp?articleid=13027
Wikipedia, of course!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_innovation
Try out http://del.icio.us/ and look for the bookmarks with the label social innovation!
Wikipedia, of course!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_innovation
Try out http://del.icio.us/ and look for the bookmarks with the label social innovation!
The route
Current state of the art:
Rotterdam-
Berlin-
Prague-
Bratislava-
(Vienna-)
Ljubjana-
Geneva
Lyon
(Brussels-)
(bracketed cities are still to be talked about)
3-2-1-action!
Making a movie requires ...well, what does it require actually? We don´t know yet, so therefore we are now making small "dummy-movies". It helps us get a feel on how people react when getting stuck a camera in fron of their nose, on how it feels to be behind that camera and on the topic itself. What is social innovation? Any ideas so far?
Here´s one answer of a around 50 year old woman: social innovation is the new structure by which many organizations are run now. More and more organizations are not any more hierarchically driven, but organized in a network-way. Small units organize themselves, sharing the same vision which makes the whole organization move in one direction. Example: a hospital she went to some weeks ago. There, for example the cleaning staff would decide on which kind of rugs to buy, because they knew which kinds worked best. They also new that they wanted to act according to the vision of the whole hospital, which might mean that they wil not by just the cheapest, but some that are produced in a sustainable way.
Or the cook would decide with his team on what will be for lunch next week, taking into consideration the patients that are currently there and their preferences, the season...everything. Everybody gets a say.
This way of organizing is new, it is innovative. And it makes everybody feel more respected and more motivated, so it has an even bigger effect. Maybe not on society as a whole, but definitely on a part ov society. So here we go with a first example of social innovation!
Friday, February 15, 2008
The concept
Since we are KaosPilots we feel authenticity should be the way. How can we bring that into our trip and our product, the movie and other additions like internet streaming, youtube video, blogs whatever we'd like to do?
The core of our operation can be a scheduled trip with spokesmen all over europe, we could think of officials or intellectuals, project managers in different areas or other people working on social innovation.. anybody who has a dream. We pick the most interesting moments. See it as an inventory and trust that from that material intresting moments will rise to watch. Also the way to film, eg a mobile phone and then very clean shot etc.
Besides this trip which in itself is worthwhile we'd like to bring a couch in the bus and just put it everywhere we go. We could just tape what happens in different places. Squares, streets, parks etc. But also interviews or events around it.
(i have tons of cool visions in my mind like demonstrations or love gatherings or an empty parking lot with a dog peeing against our sofa). The cool thing is that we can all contribute in any way we would like and the big bus could also be our mobile office!
What you need is to be enthusiastic and your shoulders because we need all the help now. We need money, materials, a decent project plan, a budget, spokespersons, contacts, people who can assist in editing or filming. There are three weeks left before we can set out to look for social innovation.
The process...a more poetic description
9 people. Cracking nuts. Running against walls. Finding doors, here and there. Climbing over self-created obsacles, but they are obstackles nevertheless. You never know why they are there. Sometimes they make you go into another direction, where you then find a nice vally to enjoy. You can build a camp there, to stay for some time. But soon you will break the tents down again and be back in the djungle.
It all started when the other group decided to go to Thailand. You know, sun, beach, laughter, happy faces...pollution...connections, learning, local people. Broaden your horizon. Social innovation! That would be the string that still connects us. We would be here. But there are more worlds than just the geographical one and both our groups would be together in the world of social innovation.
How do you discover a world? How do you set off, loose sight of the shore and discover something completely new? Without knowing where you go? We were hanging in a calm for quite some time, loosing energy, running in circles. We were stuck on trying to figure out where to search for our new world geographically, could it be Eastern Europe? Oh no, some people were severely against that. Berlin? Maybe. Barcelona? Nice shot, but did it have enough potential? Marocco. Ruled out quickly for financial reasons.
How do you discover a world when you don´t have any money? How do you still create an impact in the new area that you are approaching? That we were quite sure about: we wanted to leave a footprint. And not one that vanishes when the air blows over it, but one that really lasts.
Leave a footprint somewhere where you don´t even know how the ground looks like that can embrace the footprint...that´s a hard one.
But taking steps leaves footprints. So here we go.
And somehow, eventually, this new world also reaches out to you. Giving you new ideas and inspiration but also feeding you with its essential nutricious fruits. We came across such a fruit when we finally had the idea of going in two Vans into two directions, one east, one south, further exploring what we had just been stumbling across right there, when having this idea: What the f**k is social innovation? We are right in it. We don´t see it, but we are living it. So let´s make it visible not only to us, but to everybody! Why were movies invented anyways?!
Wading in muddy territories, insecure grounds, robbing forward we had finally reached that island. Wow! Sun is shining again! Blue skies, with rockets shooting through it, like bubbles in a glass of champaign. A firework of new ideas! Maybe we will take people with us along the road! Or we will connect to the underground scenes! Or we will do stand up theater! Or we will just ask people on the street! Or we will open up a dialogue between East and West! Or, or, or. Why should it be "or"? Can´t it be "and"? But where is the focus then?
Damn, we are back in the mud. But now we have a history, we already left footprints. How does the water look like that is slowly gathering in them, condensing into the essence of our quest? Maybe it is not cristal clear. But it is water, the essence of life! What springs to the eye when watching it is its authenticity. It is real.
This is what we are: we are real. Authentic. So let´s bring it on again! Let´s see how we explore, discover and create at the same time something that is like a raw diamond, hidden deep down in the earth, ready to be grinded by us, to reveal its ultimate beauty. How will it look like? Nobody knows, but everybody believes that it will shine. Beautifully. Magnificently! Wow, I wanna see it already!
How do you discover a world when you don´t have any money? How do you still create an impact in the new area that you are approaching? That we were quite sure about: we wanted to leave a footprint. And not one that vanishes when the air blows over it, but one that really lasts.
Leave a footprint somewhere where you don´t even know how the ground looks like that can embrace the footprint...that´s a hard one.
But taking steps leaves footprints. So here we go.
And somehow, eventually, this new world also reaches out to you. Giving you new ideas and inspiration but also feeding you with its essential nutricious fruits. We came across such a fruit when we finally had the idea of going in two Vans into two directions, one east, one south, further exploring what we had just been stumbling across right there, when having this idea: What the f**k is social innovation? We are right in it. We don´t see it, but we are living it. So let´s make it visible not only to us, but to everybody! Why were movies invented anyways?!
Wading in muddy territories, insecure grounds, robbing forward we had finally reached that island. Wow! Sun is shining again! Blue skies, with rockets shooting through it, like bubbles in a glass of champaign. A firework of new ideas! Maybe we will take people with us along the road! Or we will connect to the underground scenes! Or we will do stand up theater! Or we will just ask people on the street! Or we will open up a dialogue between East and West! Or, or, or. Why should it be "or"? Can´t it be "and"? But where is the focus then?
Damn, we are back in the mud. But now we have a history, we already left footprints. How does the water look like that is slowly gathering in them, condensing into the essence of our quest? Maybe it is not cristal clear. But it is water, the essence of life! What springs to the eye when watching it is its authenticity. It is real.
This is what we are: we are real. Authentic. So let´s bring it on again! Let´s see how we explore, discover and create at the same time something that is like a raw diamond, hidden deep down in the earth, ready to be grinded by us, to reveal its ultimate beauty. How will it look like? Nobody knows, but everybody believes that it will shine. Beautifully. Magnificently! Wow, I wanna see it already!
The process
Since we are KaosPilots we feel authenticity should be the way. How can we bring that into our trip and our product, the movie and other additions like internet streaming, youtube video, blogs whatever we'd like to do?
The core of our operation can be a scheduled trip with spokesmen all over europe, we could think of officials or intellectuals, project managers in different areas or other people working on social innovation.. anybody who has a dream. We pick the most interesting moments. See it as an inventory and trust that from that material intresting moments will rise to watch. Also the way to film, eg a mobile phone and then very clean shot etc.
Besides this trip which in itself is worthwhile we'd like to bring a couch in the bus and just put it everywhere we go. We could just tape what happens in different places. Squares, streets, parks etc. But also interviews or events around it.
(i have tons of cool visions in my mind like demonstrations or love gatherings or an empty parking lot with a dog peeing against our sofa). The cool thing is that we can all contribute in any way we would like and the big bus could also be our mobile office!
What you need is to be enthusiastic and your shoulders because we need all the help now. We need money, materials, a decent project plan, a budget, spokespersons, contacts, people who can assist in editing or filming. There are three weeks left before we can set out to look for social innovation.
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