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VIEW AS FACING PAGES : ACROBAT READER - View / Page Layout / Facing CONTENTS CONTENTS Letter from the Editor: Letters from Havana A new year waits, ripe with new Hasta la victoria, siempre! opportunities, new challenges and Paul Natorp new questions. Letter from the Director: Ambition Factory Anticipation is in the air > Kao- Discover your potential, nurse it & sWorks 2007 > The Publication claim your future. and Shanghai > What’s next? The Global Inspiration 2 Students projects 07 Engine: What is the new new or 1. Soup Day the next next? What are the burning 2. Engaging youth in dialogue for the questions of our present time? future of Vejle Executive KaosPilots The Question of my gen- Bertel O. Steen & KaosPilot’s eration: Frederik Wulff - see an leadership training entirely different world. Social Innovation KP Team 13 May Projects: finding innovative solutions to meet Azores to Borneo, Netherlands to the societal challenges and needs Brazil. facing us today. KaosPilots in Shanghai: Creative Leadership Fun- “Social Innovation is happening in damentals: Info on kaosPilot’s Shanghai, although very fragmente” 3 day training program in creative leadership. Sustainability Out of the Box A KaosPilot Project Granted KS Floor mapping International Sustainability Award TIPS & TRIC by Peter Busch Sustainability 2 On Intelligence A Team 12 Exclusive Feature on Review of the book by Jeff Hawkins Sustainability by Peter Busch Design & illustration by Simon Kavanagah All Photographs by Simon Kavanagh & Frederik Wulf 001 002 3 00 - This publication is an initiative to share insight, stories and high- lights of the past year as well as sharing our questions, aspira- tions and objectives for 2008. A golden tread, running through the pages of this publication, is that of co-creation. This publi- cation, too, is a co-creation where you will find articles made by the KaosPilot staff as well as contributions from the KaosPilots students. or Our three vocational areas of Sustainability, Cultural Diversity and Social Innovation have been evident in the projects we have carried out in 2007 and we are committed to enforce this work in collaboration with our Danish and international partners and friends in the year to come. dit Imagine what we can accomplish if we make it a shared effort to create value while at the same time making it a conscious choice to make a difference for the world around us, proving benefit and profit to be a false dichotomy. Our culture has made us accustomed to see ourselves as separate from the larger whole of which we are an integral part, but perhaps it is time to see with new eyes and time to care. For, how can the environ- ment take care of us if we do not take care of the environment? This publications is an invitation to contribute, an invitation to ask questions to things taken for granted, to address serious challenges in a playful manner, to take a risk and to step into the future taking an active stand in its creation by acting from a place of clear intention in terms of the lives we want to create the e and lead in the year and years to come. Editor [email protected] If you have stories to share or questions to ask, please do not hesitate to get intaking touch. interest Thank youin thefor KaosPilots! Tina Broberg We live in interesting times. New technologies, the rise of new economies and new creatingpower relations a shift arein the way we perceive and structure the world we call our home. Theus arechanges happening around on many levels, reaching into the realm of the fundamental processesrelate of howto ourwe selves and to the people and living systems we are part of. A new year lies in front of us ripe with new opportunities,lenges new and chal new questions. we live in interesting times” we live in interesting “ letter from A n t i cipation is in the air A i m At the KaosPilots we foster creative entrepreneurship, learnership and leadership with special focus on sustainability, social innovation and cultural diversity. We offer creative outsiders and potential change makers space, and a place for them to develop their knowledge, attitudes and competencies to be able to realise their values and visions. Entrepreneurship is the vehicle for turning creativity into a viable value proposition. Learnership is concerned with learning how to learn. Leadership is about showing the way. KaosWorks 2007 : The Publicati on and Shanghai : Whats next? The KaosPilot program is dif- ship approach, our opportu- students will work on assign- ferent compared to many other nity-based pedagogy and our ments for clients in what we programs. It is not about what values have provided custom- define as a “creative hotspot” you know, but what you can ized solutions for clients from somewhere in the world. The and will do. At the program the the businesses world, NGOs framework for this one takes students produce fascinating and public offices. offset in one of our focus ar- and important results, but it is The client list 2007 included: eas these years – social inno- the work and struggle to excel, Bertel O. Steen, BRF, Credit vation. In Scandinavia social that gives them the experienc- Suisse, Frederikshavns Kom- innovation is closely linked es, skills and attitudes that will mune, Kommunernes Lands- to the great movements from stay with them throughout their forening, Microsoft, Ports- the last two centuries, like the lives. This may well be the mouth University, SCA, Statoil, women’s lib movement. reason why Business Week Union of Baltic Cities etc. named KaosPilots one of the For us it will be interesting to most challenging and interest- During the coming year we investigate what lies beneath ing design programs in the will see a continuation of the hype of Shanghai and world for aspiring leaders. some programs but also new explore what social conse- initiatives within the field of quences the wealth creation The interest for the KaosPilots sustainability, leadership and brings forth for segments or a grows. The program in Oslo creativity. Personally I am larger part of the world society. is now on its third year, the looking very much forward to Maybe the understanding of program in Malmø on its sec- our strategic offering for edu- what social innovation is will ond and in Rotterdam the first cating, and to training our own be challenged? On another semester is coming to an end. pedagogical and consultancy level it will be interesting to A new program opens up in staff through our Creative see what a group of KaosPi- Stockholm in January. In 2008, Leadership Program. lots may bring to a place like we will look into how more Shanghai. specialised solutions, rooted in the KaosPilot curriculum, can be offered. One can imagine a The Publication and Shanghai vertical development (kinder- What’s next? garten to an executive master) This is our first publication. It or a horizontal development, is an initiative to provide more Change Makers - making the where special KaosPilot tools, value to the ones interested change, changes the making, modules or pedagogical ap- in the KaosPilots and what we making thechanges change, proaches are offered in other do. It is also part of a strategic changing the making made... educations or as customized move towards content produc- training and development tion. In the coming years we In our effort to take the Ka- sessions for different target will play and experiment with osPilots to the next level we groups. ways to produce and distribute are seeking to reinvent our- the value we create together selves. Educations normally with partners and clients. The start with a curriculum. The main focus for this publica- KaosPilot education starts with KaosWorks 2007 tion is the coming outpost in a set of activities designed for Shanghai. making learners excel after the It has been a good year in KaosPilots will for the first finished education, developing terms of our consultancy work. time have an outpost in Asia. the education as such . Our transformational leader- For three months a team of 004 Letter from the Director KaosWorks 2007 : The Publicati on and Shanghai : Whats next? . .as well as improving the society. Then we design and re-design a curriculum to support this. We seek to ex- plore what kind of leadership and what kind of initiatives does the world need? Our new curriculum will be crafted with input from our students, faculty and friends from around the globe. We need to equip our students with essen- tial competencies, mindsets and experiences to explore and work with creative solutions for complex global chal- lenges. Our updated and improved curriculum will be based on our strong cultural roots and experience. Our praxis ap- proach towards real world problem solving and international orientation are given, just as our curiosity. The program will remain exclusive, with an inclusive outlook. It will be real time – right here, right now – but with an eye for the future and respect for the past. The quality of the offering will always be premium. It is about intention-education. On an institutional level we will challenge ourselves. The education has always been considered pioneering, an experimental education and a lighthouse. Now we will start to experiment with the institution; can it also be an en- terprising lighthouse? What kind of relationships can it hold? What platforms can it provide? What kind of inspiration can it provide to others on a larger scale than it does today? The focus on sustainability, social innovation and cultural diversity will be reinforced. We view sustainability broadly (environmental, economical, social and cultural) but clearly the environ- mental issue is crucial today.