Necessity is the mother of invention. Is that true? And if so, how does it work? And what do provisional solutions have to do with it? With the help of well-known film scenes, this podcast describes creativity from a new perspective and examines its connection to crises and disasters.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. Is that true? And if so, how does it work? And what do provisional solutions have to do with it? With the help of well-known film scenes, this podcast describes creativity from a new perspective and examines its connection to crises and disasters.
Wrong decisions, or: fire and the search for orientation.
The Provisional
23 minutes 42 seconds
1 month ago
Wrong decisions, or: fire and the search for orientation.
"How is it that people would rather burn in a house than run out into the street without pants?" Harald Welzer (a social psychologist from Germany) once asked. The answer to this very interesting question is certainly not that people were irrational or crazy.
Instead, this episode shows that, from a certain perspective, something very understandable, almost normal, is happening here. But it also becomes clear why, precisely for this reason, good improvisation is so difficult in time-critical and dangerous situations.
Find out why.
The Provisional
Necessity is the mother of invention. Is that true? And if so, how does it work? And what do provisional solutions have to do with it? With the help of well-known film scenes, this podcast describes creativity from a new perspective and examines its connection to crises and disasters.
