1998 - Incomplete Manifesto for Creative Growth - Bruce Mau

Subject: Manifesto for Creative Growth

From: mieke gerritzen

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:31:29 +0100

The following manifesto was presented by the Canadian designer Bruce Mau at the Doors of Perception conference last week.

Manifesto for growth

1 Allow events to change you

2 Forget about good

3 process is more important than outcome

4 love your experiments like ugly children

5 go Deep

6 capture accidents

7 study

8 drift

9 begin anywhere

10 everyone is a leader

11 harvest ideas, edit applications

12 keep moving

13 slow down

14 don't be cool (cool is conservative fear, dressed in black)

15 ask stupid questions

16 collaborate

17 an image which email won't replicate

18 Allow space for ideas you haven't had yet

19 Stay up late

20 Work the metaphor

21 time is genetic

22 repeat yourself

23 make your own tolos

24 stand on someone's shoulders

25 avoid software (everyone has it)

26 don't clean your desk

27 don't enter awards (its bad for you)

28 creativity is not device dependent

29 organisation is liberty

30 don't borrow money

31 listen carefully

32 take field trips

33 imitate

34 make mistakes faster

35 scat (break it, stretch it, crack it, fold it)

36 explore the other edge

37 coffee breaks, cab rides, ream (?) romos

38 avoid fields, jump fences

39 laugh

40 remember

41 power to the people

   

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