How artful creation helps organizations to surpass themselves.
MHP Video Storytelling
Future by Docu-Fiction: Inspirational Visioning & Creative Strategy Design
Key Notes
Our work at the interface of art, business and science gave and gives us the opportunity to talk to many different people. Among them are artists, entrepreneurs, and researchers. The…
Inspire Change
In the context of many changes at different levels (market, organization, processes, merger, etc.), our customer, a large IT company, decided to start a culture change program. All 60 managers…
Future by Docu-Fiction
We work closely with the MHP Solution Group, a group of companies in the logistics software sector, on a variety of topics. For example, as part of a workshop in…
Age of Artists #2
Conference on dealing with uncertainty
17 – 19 March 2021 | Probstzella
Bauhaus hotel »Haus des Volkes«
Insights
Thomas Castéran
I first met entrepreneur and video-maker Gaspard Bonnefoy while we were finishing our master’s studies in Montpellier. Back then, I remember rushing off to find an internship in a big company that would provide me the opportunity to start my career. Gaspard, meanwhile, was turning down a permanent job offer…
Benjamin Stromberg
A NEW NORMAL Whether the situation is acute like SARS-CoV-2 or creeping like the climate catastrophe: what is perceived as a state of emergency can, today, be understood as a constant companion in different guises. “Uncertainty is the new normal,” explained IMF chief Kristalina Georgiewa in a recent interview with…
Thomas Castéran
When asked how he became an artist, Renard looked at us, slightly puzzled, before answering: “This is a difficult question. I don’t really know how we become artists”. After a short pause, he finally added: “All I know is that at some point in my life and studies, I studied…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
A unique feature of artificial intelligence is that it knows no feeling. It works logically, although its logic is not always understandable for us humans. The reason may be that with us humans the feeling still comes first (even if we all feel it differently), followed by the slower mind,…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Machines reduce our workload thanks to automation. They take on dangerous tasks, tasks that require precision, or tasks that bore us. The increasing efficiency or (if you will) intelligence of the systems makes it possible also to automate knowledge-intensive or complicated activities.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
One of the benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps us take decisions today (or more so in the future) or releases us from them altogether. This sounds sensible and tempting in the face of a real or perceived increasing variety of possibilities. How welcome would a simple app…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Technological progress is often equated with efficiency gains. For example, machines, especially those that get ascribed more and more certain intelligence, can often do things many times more efficiently than humans can. They relieve us of tasks and decisions and thus also reduce the wealth of personal experiences quite casually.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
The highest hopes for economic growth are linked to technological progress. Technological progress unveils fascinating possibilities. At the same time the upheavals associated with it are partly also highly problematic and their consequences mostly unpredictable. Most far-reaching, or at least most apparent, are the advances we have made in the…
Benjamin Stromberg & Dirk Dobiéy
In his life, Wolfgang Ullrich has worked intensively on art and its significance for our society and is able to combine his expertise with compelling analyses of contemporary social phenomena.
Benjamin Stromberg & Dirk Dobiéy
When talking about the common good, few people associate it with its economic relevance. Not so the German psychologist and business economist Timo Meynhardt. After finishing his academic studies and working for several years in consulting, he is currently conducting research with a focus on the common good and its…
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Benjamin Stromberg
President of Courageous Awareness
Benjamin Stromberg is consultant at Age of Artists with a transdisciplinary background. He studied communication and political science and then specialized in organizational development with a multiple focus on transformation, creativity and digitization.
Kathrin Dobiéy
Head of Serendipity
Kathrin is Head of Serendipity at Age of Artists. She has a business background and worked for different companies such as L’Oreal, VF Corp., and Idee.Design.Licht as a Sales & Marketing Manager.
Annalena Maas
Director of Getting Things Done
Annalena directs in various theaters as well as in the independent scene. Her works have one thing in common: they always look for other possibilities and perspectives. For her, acting artistcally is an essential building block for sustainable, entrepreneurial change.
“It’s not about changing the repertoire of elements, at the most to widen it to its maximum. The dangers for creativity are the routine and the uniformity.”
Sebastian Heiner
Contemporary artist
“I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in construction.”
Joël Renard
Painter and Professor of Fine Arts
“I like not knowing. I like being surprised.”
Vanessa Notley
Painter and sculptor
“There is no security. Terms like fault or failure only exist if you allow them.”
Lucija Mikas
Dancer
“The moment of surprise always adheres to creativity. You get surprised by yourself.”
Ludger Brümmer
Composer
“I’m always collecting impressions – no matter where I am.”
SAFI
Singer
“There are no dots. What is there is the connection.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Musician and writer
“Each work gives me the opportunity to use an individual language.”
Lisa Peters
Contemporary artist
“I consider it as my job to create something new.”
Hye Young Kim
Contemporary artist
”Everyone has a different creativity.“
Gaspard Bonnefoy
Entrepreneur und video maker
