Explore every episode of the podcast The Provisional
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| Wrong decisions, or: fire and the search for orientation. | 12 sept. 2025 | 00:23:42 | |
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 Musik: diffusion by airtone (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/64852 | |||
| Building Time Bridges: Improvisation | 31 juil. 2025 | 00:26:44 | |
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
Musik: blackSnow by airtone (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/63513
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| Creativity works like a marshalling yard, or: how to remove a spider from a wall | 29 juin 2025 | 00:20:20 | |
Hofstadter D. & Sander E. (2013). Surfaces and Essences. Analogies as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, New York, Basic Books. Sound: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) directed by Jonathan Demme Music: | |||
| Analogical thinking and its allies, or: who or what invented Wilson? | 01 juin 2025 | 00:18:40 | |
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. Music: spacedust by airtone (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/64741 Sounds: RESTAURANT KITCHEN IS BUSY.wav by cpark12 -- https://freesound.org/s/347309/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 | |||
| How to deal with the "Arsenal of on-board Resources" | 29 avr. 2025 | 00:29:03 | |
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. Music: roboduck by airtone (c) copyright 2023 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/66098 | |||
| Wilson, the volleyball: how to create a provisional companion | 27 mars 2025 | 00:30:30 | |
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 Music: diffusion by airtone (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/64852
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| The "succesful failure" of Apollo 13. How a sock saves lives in high technology | 24 févr. 2025 | 00:22:00 | |
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 Music: blackSnow by airtone (c) copyright 2021 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/63513 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. | |||