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INAUGURATION SPEECH FOR THE COCREATION FOUNDATION10 OCTOBER, 2020 BY JASCHA ROHRNASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron EvansNo one knows if it was Willy Brandt or Abraham Lincoln who said:“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.”I would say:“THE BEST WAY TO LOSE FEAR OF THE FUTURE IS TO COCREATE IT.”To cocreate the future, we need to have an understanding of process: of patterns of process and of scale of process.We use to talk about climate change as if it is something we can work on, in the same time frame, as if we, for example, change an institution’s organization or …

INAUGURATION SPEECH FOR THE COCREATION FOUNDATION10 OCTOBER, 2020 BY JASCHA ROHRNASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron EvansNo one knows if it was Willy Brandt or Abraham Lincoln who said:“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.”I would say:“THE BEST WAY TO LOSE FEAR OF THE FUTURE IS TO COCREATE IT.”To cocreate the future, we need to have an understanding of process: of patterns of process and of scale of process.We use to talk about climate change as if it is something we can work on, in the same time frame, as if we, for example, change an institution’s organization or …

A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and desires I claim to know and serve. I am writing a book I feel is necessary to write because it is my contribution to the process we are in as humanity at this particular time in history.Having said that: of course, …

A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and desires I claim to know and serve. I am writing a book I feel is necessary to write because it is my contribution to the process we are in as humanity at this particular time in history.Having said that: of course, …

COCREATION (NOUN)[ koˌkrɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n ][1] a cultural technique to create global solutions in the anthropocene with everyone and everything.[2] in distinction to co-creation as a methodology to include users in the design of products, cocreation describes the fundamental notion that all creation is cocreation: a deep practice and cultural technique, leading participateurs to let the new emerge from transformative processes.[3] a multistakeholder process to work from a basis of resonance, connection and multiperspective understanding towards necessary innovations for the complex global challenges of the early 21st century.The IdeaEvery process is art. Every process is a sculpture made from dynamic interactions.Every process undergoes …

COCREATION (NOUN)[ koˌkrɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n ][1] a cultural technique to create global solutions in the anthropocene with everyone and everything.[2] in distinction to co-creation as a methodology to include users in the design of products, cocreation describes the fundamental notion that all creation is cocreation: a deep practice and cultural technique, leading participateurs to let the new emerge from transformative processes.[3] a multistakeholder process to work from a basis of resonance, connection and multiperspective understanding towards necessary innovations for the complex global challenges of the early 21st century.The IdeaEvery process is art. Every process is a sculpture made from dynamic interactions.Every process undergoes …

Developing a landscape of changeIn order to achieve its mission, the Cocreation Foundation will work towards a global ecology of change, building autonomous but connected structures to enable processes of cocreation.For this end, the Cocreation Foundation will use the “pods & codes”organisational framework: a transparent, agile and collaborative approach for cocreative organisations. Activities of the Cocreation Foundation are dedicated to pods: that is, organisational sub-groups with a clearly defined intention and role:Co*Creators*ClubThere are pioneers of cocreation all over the world. We feel that it will be helpful to form an informal community of practice for everyone working on participatory, collaborative or cocreative …

Developing a landscape of changeIn order to achieve its mission, the Cocreation Foundation will work towards a global ecology of change, building autonomous but connected structures to enable processes of cocreation.For this end, the Cocreation Foundation will use the “pods & codes”organisational framework: a transparent, agile and collaborative approach for cocreative organisations. Activities of the Cocreation Foundation are dedicated to pods: that is, organisational sub-groups with a clearly defined intention and role:Co*Creators*ClubThere are pioneers of cocreation all over the world. We feel that it will be helpful to form an informal community of practice for everyone working on participatory, collaborative or cocreative …

OUR CHALLENGE IS TO COCREATE THE WORLD WE ALL DREAM ABOUT.NOW.The number of humans living on the earth is rapidly growing. According to the statistician Hans Rosling we might reach a maximum number of 12 billion people by 2050. This prognosis leaves us with the question of how 12 billion people will be able to coexist on and with this planet peacefully.While no one can predict if this is possible at all, the Cocreation Foundation believes that we have no other chance than facing this challenge: to create a world of mutuality and coexistence in peace, health, freedom and ecological …

OUR CHALLENGE IS TO COCREATE THE WORLD WE ALL DREAM ABOUT.NOW.The number of humans living on the earth is rapidly growing. According to the statistician Hans Rosling we might reach a maximum number of 12 billion people by 2050. This prognosis leaves us with the question of how 12 billion people will be able to coexist on and with this planet peacefully.While no one can predict if this is possible at all, the Cocreation Foundation believes that we have no other chance than facing this challenge: to create a world of mutuality and coexistence in peace, health, freedom and ecological …