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The Provisional

Margit Schild

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Frequency: 1 episode/33d. Total Eps: 7

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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Wrong decisions, or: fire and the search for orientation.

Episode 7

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 23:42

More information about the Mann Gulch fire:

Weick, K. E. (1996). Drop your tools: An allegory for organizational studies.Administrative Science Quarterly; June, 41, 2, S. 301- 313.

"How is it that people prefer to be burnt to death in a house, instead of running out into the street without their trousers on?" was asked by Harald Welzer, in his talk: Who Acts When and Why Not? Symposium "Out of the Blue. From Provisional to Improvisation", 27-29 October 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, House of World Cultures, Berlin, p. 1, https://www.udk-berlin.de/fileadmin/2_dezentral/Forschung/FR_Postgraduales_Forum/Harald_Welzer_ENG_HKW_2017.pdf

Artistic director of the Symposium: Margit Schild

The german word "Schreckstarre" means "stiffness caused by fear" (PONS);

Späti, means Spätkauf, a late night corner shop common in Berlin.

Sound:

Ambiance_Fire_Bushes_Loop_Stereo.wav by Nox_Sound -- https://freesound.org/s/564621/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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Building Time Bridges: Improvisation

Episode 6

Thursday, July 31, 2025 • Duration 26:44

Sources used:

Mascolo, G., (30. März 2023). Die Kunst des Überlebens. Süddeutsche Zeitung, S. 3

Voss, M. et al. (2022). Katastrophenbewältigung als sozialer Prozess: Vom Ideal- zum Realverständnis von Risiko-, Krisen- und Katastrophenmanagement. Notfallvorsorge 1/2022, Walhalla u. Praetoria Verlag.

Thirteen Lives, 2022, Film by Ron Howard

Tham Luang cave rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

Sound of a hospital operating room:

OR1.m4a by pschu -- https://freesound.org/s/624700/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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Creativity works like a marshalling yard, or: how to remove a spider from a wall

Episode 5

Sunday, June 29, 2025 • Duration 20:20

Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books.

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Water is poured into a glass 2 by tosha73 -- https://freesound.org/s/727382/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) directed by Jonathan Demme

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Analogical thinking and its allies, or: who or what invented Wilson?

Episode 4

Sunday, June 1, 2025 • Duration 18:40

Cast Away, Film from Robert Zemeckis, 2000, with Tom Hanks.

Ratatouille, Pixar Animation Studios, 2007

Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books.

Sounds: RESTAURANT KITCHEN IS BUSY.wav by cpark12 -- https://freesound.org/s/347309/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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How to deal with the "Arsenal of on-board Resources"

Episode 3

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 • Duration 29:03

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.

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Wilson, the volleyball: how to create a provisional companion

Episode 2

Thursday, March 27, 2025 • Duration 30:30

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.wav

NASA Website:https://images.nasa.gov/details-Apollo13Highlights

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The "succesful failure" of Apollo 13. How a sock saves lives in high technology

Episode 1

Monday, February 24, 2025 • Duration 22:00

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.de

Dramaturgy Consultant: Zach Clarke

Supported 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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