Eight design principles for achieving effective development in organizations.
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Design principles
Perceptiveness and the ability to reflect, problem-solving and design competence, and improvisation skills: According to our research, artistic intelligence encompasses the essential capabilities needed to address the global challenges of…
Repairing 2024
As the Earth keeps spinning as usual, the fractures in our world have rarely been as visible as they are this year. Politically, culturally, economically, and ecologically, fragments of what…
OKR Mooncamp Partnership
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) provide a structured framework to keep transformational initiatives on track while advancing them alongside day-to-day operations. Vision, mission, and a company’s value proposition—its strategic identity—can…
Living Process Wall
We reflect on a successful collaboration with students from the Media Design and Illustration programs in the 4th semester of the Design degree at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in…
Doing Diversity
You never stop learning. And at the same time, when it comes to diversity, some things we must unlearn. On the 12th Diversity Day, we want to encourage everyone once…
The Art of Shaping the Future
We were delighted to participate as an official partner of the #24butterfly Corporate Karisma Festival in Linz from May 2–4 this year. The event provided an inspiring platform to explore…
Insights
Ona Jarmalavičiūtė & Benjamin Stromberg
Salomé Voegelin is a widely interested artist, writer and researcher working in different modalities. Her professional work is mostly engaged in the world sound makes, socio-political and aesthetic thinking via the practice of listening. She is the author of three influential books on sound: The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014),…
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.
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Greta Verlage
Grandess of Imagery and Creative Writing
Greta Verlage is a freelance photographer and studies social and economic communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In her work with Age of Artists, she combines her transdisciplinary background with an aesthetic and economic practice.
Jonas Drechsel
Head of Utopian Future Trends
Jonas is a graduated and critical futurologist. He likes to be where people want to make things better. As a world wanderer, he has worked for the largest corporations, the smallest start-ups, the EU, NGOs and organizations that think beyond outdated conceptions of the future.
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.
Sarah Friese
Head of Multiverse Exploration
Sarah is an geographer with an interdisciplinary background in natural sciences, management and urban design. She analyzes current situations, explores transitions and designs transformation processes.
Annalena Maas
Chief Performance Virtuosa
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.
Tina Winkel
Chief Culture Campaigner
Tina is a cultural scientist, media educator and currently project manager for the garage campus, one of the four large intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Since her first visit to a European Capital of Culture in 2009, the subject has become her passion.
“I like not knowing. I like being surprised.”
Painter and sculptor
“Trust is the main point of good leadership.”
Conductor
“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.”
Contemporary artist
”Everyone has a different creativity.“
Entrepreneur und video maker
“There are no dots. What is there is the connection.”
Musician and writer
“I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in construction.”
Painter and Professor of Fine Arts
“I consider it as my job to create something new.”
Contemporary artist
“There is no security. Terms like fault or failure only exist if you allow them.”
Dancer
“I’m always collecting impressions – no matter where I am.”
Singer
“The moment of surprise always adheres to creativity. You get surprised by yourself.”
Composer
