CTTF

Creative Chaos Lab (for CISV)

The focus lies on the qualitative difference that can make a difference provided by a Creative Chaos Lab, insisting on a proactive engagement with uncertainty, ambiguity, and polysemy simply through serendipitous play. Within the idea of a Possibility Space, a Creative Chaos Lab emerges as a dynamic mindspace in which participants explore their different perspectives of futures. We all have various pluralistic images of the future in our minds, but nobody can see each others’ ideas about them, what each one of us is thinking, assuming, and imagining the future to become. here, “chaos” is not an absence of order, but rather very complicated information. And idiosyncratic, stochastic, “chance” is not the absence of selection. Instead, “chance” is the intrusion of a different order of selection.

The co-interactive process reveals the multiplicity of images of the future among participants. It furthermore attempts to utilize the group dynamics to provide a form of expression for these images of the future, strangely looping through the participants and drawing them into the systems of the futures. Working from a two-level interdependence point of view towards the conceptual framework for Possible Action (always-already immersed in our epigenetic and exogenetic inheritance), it positions a Creative Chaos Lab as transcontextual and time-sensitive. Simultaneously, it depicts the interplay between an enhanced sense of the possible and the personal agency to enact new possibilities as mutually and symmetrically interdependent.

The idea of a Creative Chaos Lab transcends the mere cultivation of expertise or the illusion of heroic feats saving the world. We do not believe that you should consider yourself a hero if you drive a sword into the heart of anything that appears to be different. Rather, a creative chaos lab embodies a collective endeavor akin to an emergency response unit, poised to navigate the complexities of a mutating cultural landscape.  It’s about helping each other to join the safety of the school of mutative, ever-changing, and co-interactive thoughts and viral ideas. Within its domain, enthusiasts of mutual learning and thought-provoking experimentation converge, embracing mutation as a cornerstone of their journey. This enclave does not dwell solely on utopian visions or fantastical narratives; instead, it fosters a collaborative ethos, where individuals converge in the sanctuary of dynamic, ever-evolving intellectual and embodied discourse. Here, the conventional paradigms of education as factory learning are dismantled, giving rise to a convivial atmosphere where the exchange of ideas flourishes gregariously and uncensored. Thus, the Creative Chaos Lab serves not merely as an ecology of knowledge but as a crucible for the co-evolution of thought and collective exploration of pluralistic and multiplicit futures.

“In ecological terms we can attribute the health and vitality of the whale to the ocean not only to the whale, and we can attribute the strength of the lion to the jungle (or savannah) not only to the lion. The environment in which the alchemy of collective need is met with a corresponding alchemical combination of possibility produces new paths to follow.”

Nora Bateson

Space Debris x Futures (for ESA)

Space Debris x Futures is a 200-years simulation that guideD participants through the complexities of space debris accumulation and Space debris mitigation as an immersive and forward-thinking scenario exercise. We aimed to provoke strategic foresight and disruptive anticipation by exploring adaptive, generational responses that supersede immediate contingency measures. Through role-playing, cross-disciplinary insights, collaborative engagement, and a framework of thought that transcends linearity and mono-causal argumentations, participants were asked to envision Events and actionable strategies for sustainable space debris mitigation in uncertain futures.

Disruptive Anticipation (for the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development)

Disruptive Anticipation is a deep epistemic shift. It is anticipation as disruption. Grounded in third-order cybernetics, Disruptive Anticipation unfolds across three orders:

1st order — observable anticipatory responses (DA1);

2nd order — reflexive restructuring of anticipatory assumptions (DA2); and

3rd order — co-emergent, poly-subjective and poly-epistemic ecologies of mind,capable of altering or reconfiguring anticipatory logics (DA3).

Disruptive Anticipation is consequently not seeking a “better competency.” It’s about unbinding futures from the apparatus of utility, planning, and human-centered pseudo-rationality altogether. It isn’t a step further in anticipatory skill—it’s a categorical rupture in the logic of skillfulness as mastery over uncertainty. It’s a dispositional stance. It doesn’t aim for mastery or maturity per se. It emerges when the existing anticipatory ecologies—even well-intentioned, reflexive ones—become insufficient because they’re still embedded in paradigms of control, institutional validation, or human exceptionalism. As a matter of fact, it’s not that evolving competency isn’t enough—it’s that sometimes, competency itself must be disrupted to allow genuinely new logics of anticipation to emerge. Disruptive Anticipation acts as disruptive attractor. It is ontogenetic; anticipation that transforms the self. It is intimate; through relationality with multiple times.

Its purpose is not prediction or planning, but the liberation of futures from deterministic, oppressive, or default imaginaries—by surfacing paradox, enabling reflexivity, and activating relational intelligences and syntheses toward evolution and transformation. Disruptive Anticipation might be mindful creation or navigation of dissonance and subversion with the purpose of transcending the default modes of temporal logics and unquestioned anticipatory assumptions as the predominant authority of our time.