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.
Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books. Sound: Water is poured into a glass 2 by tosha73 -- https://freesound.org/s/727382/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0The Silence of the Lambs (1991) directed by Jonathan DemmeMusic:reNovation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/60674
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Cast Away, Film from Robert Zemeckis, 2000, with Tom Hanks.Ratatouille, Pixar Animation Studios, 2007Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books. Music: spacedust by airtone (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/64741Sounds: RESTAURANT KITCHEN IS BUSY.wav by cpark12 -- https://freesound.org/s/347309/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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Apollo 13, Film from Ron Howard, 1995. With Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Ed Harris.Cast Away, Film from Robert Zemeckis, 2000, with Tom Hanks.Anne with an E, a Canadian period drama television series from Moira Walley-Becket, 2017, adapted from Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 Anne of Green Gables.Fargo, Film from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 1996, with Frances McDormand.Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books. Music: roboduck by airtone (c) copyright 2023 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/66098
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Cast away (2000), from Robert Zemeckis, with Tom Hanks.Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books. NASA Audiofile: images-assets.nasa.gov/audio/Apollo13Highlights/Apollo13Highlights~orig.wavNASA Website:https://images.nasa.gov/details-Apollo13HighlightsMusic: diffusion by airtone (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/64852
3/27/25 • 30:30
Apollo 13, Film from Ron Howard, 1995. With Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Ed Harris.All drawings by Margit Schild.www.less-art.de, schule-des-provisorischen.deDramaturgy Consultant: Zach ClarkeMusic: blackSnow by airtone (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/63513Supported by Amadeu Antonio Stiftung On April 11,1970—after the explosion of an oxygen tank—the Apollo 13 mission had to abandon its landing on the moon. The damaged systems required the rescue of the crew. In the Apollo 13 movie, NASA flight director Gene Kranz introduces his Houston team members to this new situation: ‘I want you to forget the flight plan. From this moment on we are improvising a new mission’ (Howard, 1995, 1:04:45). The explosion not only prevented the landing on the moon, but it was not at all clear how the crew could be rescued. Despite all emergency training, in this case, something happened that nobody had expected. Among other technical improvisations, the development/the design of the makeshift air filter created a way out of a rather hopeless situation. The engineers have checked how the arsenal of on-board resources is equipped, in other words, a visual inspection of all things available. And tried to put things together in the right way, like a puzzle, they looked for the right pieces that fit together, moved them back and forth, touched them, tried this and that, until they finally created a thing, a construction, that functioned as a CO 2- filter. How is this possible? This episode takes a closer look at the creative mechanisms at work here and how they may be relevant to every day problems.
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