Silberbauer Says:

Uffe Elbæk from the Chaos Pilots opened with the first workshop.

When listening to Uffe Elbæk one question comes into mind: Why do ‘revolutionaries’ always talk as if the world is standing on a tipping point and that we’re living in the most important generation of all time”? Haven’t the world always been on a tipping point? When were the safe days?

Anyway,

Uffe’s presentation consisted of three parts:

1. A critique of the present Danish political environment with the statement: “Creativity yes! But in what kind of political context?”

2. 25 pieces of advice:

1. Embrace Chaos
2. Be lustful
3. Sit less
4. Wipe out habits
5. Give the best away
6. Drop plans
7. Be good to others
8. Beware of those who are perfect
9. Be greedy
10. Be playful
11. Be disciplined
12. Ask anyone
13. Flip graphs
14. Look up from your computer
15. Exploit each other
16. Ask questions
17. Ask stupid questions
18. Drop weaknesses
19. Take more risks
20. Beware of political correctness
21. Defer critique
22. Don’t be sure you can figure it all out
23. Slow down
24. Think in fairytales
25. Believe in happy emotions

We would like to add: “26. Save the whales” and “27. Don’t go nuts if you’re a squirrel“.
Or in other word, a list of the obvious doesn’t make it enlightening!

The third part of Uffe’s presentation was a 10 minute music video. It was a kind of Late-nineties-Sting-meets-Bono-in-Africa-thing. This being the 25 years anniversary of MTV it was rather difficult to get excited by it and a great illustration of how creative “methods” can grow old.