The Third Place of Knowledge Leadership and Creativity

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The Third Place of Knowledge - Leadership and
Creativity

• Lars Qvortrup
• Knowledge Lab/SDU

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Three issues/themes

• Art-in-residence (art in a foreign place)
• Communication through art (art a medium for
  double contingency)
• Leadership of creative processes (the conductor)

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Organisational development
The industrial/bureaucratic organisation
The knowledge/knowl.based organisation
Complexity
Hypercomplexity/hyper-irritation (creativity)
Management
Conduction (conductorship)
Decision making
Decision premising
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The Search for Knowledge/1

• Cartesian knowledge (res cogitans/ res extensa
  Knowledge is knowing-that)
• Gilbert Ryle (the ghost-in-the-machine critique
  Knowledge includes knowing-that and knowing-how)
• Lev Vygotsky (from actual development zone to the
  zone of proximal development)

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The Search for Knowledge/2

• Donald Schön The reflective practitioner
• Gregory Bateson 1., 2., 3. and 4. order learning
• Per Bak Stability - chaos - self-organized
  criticality
• Michel Serres Le Tiers-Instruit - the third
  instructed

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1. order knowledge
Indicative Knowledge
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2. order knowledge
Situative Knowledge
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3. order knowledge
Systemic Knowledge
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4. order knowledge
Knowledge Culture
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Knowledge Typology
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Knowledge Typology
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Knowledge Indication and distinction
Indication
Distinction
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Knowledge Indication and distinction
What I dont know that I dont know
(Meaning horizon - culture)
What I dont know
What I know
(the blind spot/ the 3. place)
What I dont know that I know
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Decision-communication
Decision premising
Decision making
Decision
Function Establishment of common conditions
Function Provision of responsibilities and
rights
Function Transformation of non-knowledge
(future) into knowledge (i.e. decision). That is
Reduction of complexity
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Art(ist)-in-residence

• Send management signals (Novo Nordic)?
• Facilitate otherness?

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Communication through art

• The form of human taste subject-based
  transcendentality (Kritik der Urteilskraft)
• The form of functionality functionally based
  transcendentality (Bauhaus)
• The form of form distinction-based
  transcendentality (Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida,
  Luhmann, Spencer Brown)

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Conduction (conductorship)
FORCE (organisational potentiality)
POWER (organisational management)
EVENT (the distinction between power and force)
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Conduction (conductorship)
What I dont know (but you know)
What I know (but you dont know)
FACILITATOR (the third instructed)
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Conduction as medium

• Indicative observation
• Observation of the other
• Observation of the third instructedness

• Causa Materialis
• Causa Efficiens
• Catharsis