Today more than ever, companies are reliant on creativity because they are operating in a rapidly changing world. Markets, technologies and social conditions are changing so quickly that routine work alone is no longer enough to keep pace. Creative thinking is becoming a key skill in order to keep pace with transformation processes and recognise new opportunities. Complex challenges for which there are no clear-cut solutions call for unusual approaches and changes of perspective - skills that are practised every day in creative processes and artistic methods.
As part of FUNKEN Night #8 - Business Unusual, experienced speakers will be invited to share their artistic methods and show how these can be utilised to entrepreneurial advantage. Whether improvisation, ideation, creative storytelling or intuitive collaboration - they will present how artistic thinking can open up new paths for business models, marketing and team leadership.
From 17:00 - Open Doors
17:30 - Keynote speech by Bernhard Schipper founder of ScobyTec & VRaktion
Bernhard Schipper is an artist, entrepreneur and lecturer. He has founded several start-ups in the fields of biotechnology and industrial IoT and has received several innovation awards for his work. He also taught at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, specialising in multimedia and VR design. As a (folk) artist, Schipper works in a form of speculative archaeology with a cultural anthropological approach and gives origin and tradition a new guise through creative storytelling.
18:00 - Impulse lecture by Jana Dörfelt
Jana Dörfelt has been bringing artistic methods to leadership and collaboration for 20 years. Using pencil, movement and humour, she opens up new approaches to intuition, body awareness and lively cooperation for managers and teams. Her work makes the invisible visible, transforms tensions into energy and organisations into places where innovation can breathe. She invites people not only to think about leadership, but to experience it in their own bodies.
