
Notes from the first Lift @ Austria conference from 19. to 20. March 2010 in Vienna, Austria.
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After a bus tour through various enabling and open spaces in Vienna at the day preceding the conference (detailed program at Lift @ Austria program page), the first day of the regular Lift @ Austria conference started with five framing talks to give impulses for thoughts and discussion about the topic “enable”.
The abstracts of all these talks can be read at the Lift @ Austria speakers page.
Pictures of the speaker are either shot by myself or taken from the website of the conference.
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Marcus F. Peschl – University of Vienna
Enabling – introduction
Trends to mechanise innovation and the desire to create new knowledge end up in a contradiction – as this just makes the implicit rules visible
Alternatives: enabling
- facilitating framework
- leave behind the “regime of control”
- only moderation – give up the control
Important for such an approach
- openness & the ability to reflect
- listening and observing (weak signals & details)
- wait & let come
Overall, a new humbleness and alternative attitudes and values with an application and mening for various contexts, domains and disciplines are required
The conference itself is an enabling space
- location
- design
- frame (bus tour, talks)
- concepts (workshops)
- documentation
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Stefan Wiltschnig – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Enabling creative processes as framing between openness and rigidity
Concept of enabling in the context of creative processes / profound innovation
- “insight” – seeing something and acting on it, new viewpoint
- European / Greek vs. Chinese perspective of innovation: forcing vs. non-interventionist
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