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Academic rituals as cultural sources of newness
There are at least three potential sources of newness offered by attending a PhD defence ritual abroad: you get to read a brand new thesis, you get to experience sparks of dissonance in the...
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Establishing improv for renewal and resistance
If Berlin feels especially energized this week, it may be partially thanks to the participants of the world conference of the Applied Improvisation Network (AIN). Over 225 men and women from 36...
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Learning about artistic interventions in Seoul
It started with an email in May 2013 that looked like spam, with Asian symbols I did not recognize. Something prompted me to open it and to my surprise, it was from a South Korean researcher who had...
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Learning by doing and reflecting on artistic interventions in Korea
After two full days of presentations, interviews, and discussions here in Seoul, several features are emerging for us about how Koreans are learning from and with artistic interventions in...
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Dancing to whose tune?
Dr. Cho Hyunjae, the 1st Vice Minister for Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea, welcomed the participants to the ARCOM conference at the Olympus Hall in Seoul on November 20 2013 with strong...
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Breaking New Year’s Resolutions is Sometimes a Good Idea
It is hard to stick to New Year’s resolutions. Colleagues like Fabian Lempa do not make it any easier by inviting me to a workshop he co-organized with Lilian Seuberling entitled “Zwischen Freiheit...
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Decidedly, dinners trigger the new
When I took a picture of the guests at the opening dinner for the “Culture Around” conference speakers and special representatives from the world of the arts tonight in Warsaw, Justyna, one of the...
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Does what we see matter for newness?
Does what we researchers see on the way to work influence what we think when we get to our desks? Might it affect our capacity to generate newness? Having moved this month to a new office in a...
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Conference learning from surprising questions
Which is more surprising: to hold a conference on the theme of Hidden Hunger at a Mövenpick hotel? Or to bring in artists to intervene in a conference of technical experts from around the globe? Hidden...
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Hiding the embodiment of knowledge
The 2nd international Hidden Hunger congress hosted by the University of Hohenheim was information-rich. Between Tuesday March 3rd and Friday March 6th 2015 the program offered the approximately 360...
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Officially, the WZB research unit “Cultural Sources of Newness” ended in 2014, but intellectually it continues to be generative. Michael Hutter, the former director, and Ignacio Farías, one of the...
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