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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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.
In Apollo 13, the crew's motto became: “We are improvising a new mission.”
In the film Cast Away, survival depended entirely on improvisation—until the protagonist gradually developed routines and skills through repetition: hunting, fishing, making fire.
“We have to improvise”—a phrase we often hear when something doesn’t go as planned, when a part is missing, when systems fail. It’s a word that surfaces often, especially in times of crisis.
Now, even though most of us have an intuitive sense of what improvisation is, but:
What exactly is it, what is improvisation?
It’s not an easy question to answer. But one thing is certain: time plays a crucial role.
The Provisional
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.
