CTTF

Creative Chaos Lab

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