I will never ever again…

”Truth to be told, this is a story I have to tell”.

In his CreativeMornings Gothenburg talk on November 25, Christer Hedberg will share what made him finally take the scary step into the unknown, leaving the company he had been a partner at and loved for over 20 years in order to reclaim his creativity, passion and curiosity.

Christer will let us peek into his todon’t list – the list of things he will never ever do again – but also his heroes who inspire him every day. And oh, there might be some Beastie Boys in there as well…

Where: Kungsportshuset (former Gamle Port), Östra Larmgatan 18

Breakfast: 07:30-08:25

Talk: 08:25 - 09:00

Are you a coffee drinker? We encourage you to bring your own cup to the event to minimise the impact on the environment.

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, winding from its source in the icepack of distant mountains. Truth tastes pristine, uncompromised by what would be profitable or convenient. Truth causes your body to hum like a tuning fork, resonating at the same frequency as the universe around you. “When you experience an undeniable truth,” writer and social worker Jessica Dore observes, “you will beg, borrow, and steal. You will rearrange your whole life, forsake everything, just to serve what is real.”

And yet the truth is fiercely contested when competing narratives collide. We forge our truth in a crucible, testing its strength through heat and hammering. Instead of smashing our convictions against one another like a particle accelerator, could we sort through the messy, contradicting facts from all around us, together? Can we wade through paradox, the dark tangle of it all, and make sense of the world?

Our Buenos Aires chapter chose this month’s exploration of Truth and Sol Cotti illustrated the theme.

Designers have a unique opportunity to strengthen voices. Through their methods and tools they can become a vehicle to elevate unheard or marginalized groups and individuals who for some reason are not invited to be part of the discussion.

This brings us to this month’s amazing speaker, Åsa Gillberg. On the 28th of October, Åsa will share her experience within the social sciences field, including examples from her work as a family advisory officer for vulnerable EU citizens, and how she weaves it together with methods and experiences as a UX designer.

In her talk “Making the weaker voices heard”, she will unveil how she has used tools from both fields to help groups identify and (re)formulate their needs, even when a problematic situation was considered normal by the group itself.

Where: Amoeba, Tredje Långgatan 13B
Breakfast: 07:30 - 08:25
Talk: 08:25 - 09:00

Hope we see you on the 28th!

October’s theme is Ethos, chosen by @asheville_cm and illustrated by @colinlsutherland. Ethos is that specific quality that defines a place, time, or group of people. When you step into a room, a busy downtown, or a community gathering, you intuit its spirit. At its core is a paradox: despite the specificity of an ethos, it’s impossible to pinpoint or trace to a specific origin. What honed that distinctive sensibility is long gone, vanished into myth. 

Ethos is alchemic, ineffable, and infinitely ponderable across place and culture. What ways of moving through the world did you inherit?

🗓️ October 28 (Friday)

🕒 7:30-9:00

Stay tuned for the speaker announcement and tickets release!

Leila is a Child Culture Designer that likes to peel back the layers on all things, in order to understand and analyze them better. In her work, and life, she is motivated to research and explore. She encourages her audience to participate in the process, and create meaningful solutions and choices catered for them.
In her presentation “Context is Depth” she talks about making meaning and how context adds depth to our stories, creative work, and design.The tickets (free but strictly limited in number) are out now!

Date: Friday, September 30
Time: 07:30 - 09:00 (talk from 08:25)
Location: Rapid Images, Sockerbruket 17, 414 51 Göteborg

Depth is a space that denies easy ways of seeing or comprehending — when we shine a light into the deep blue of the ocean, we cannot see much further than the surface. In our age of instant answers, we bristle at this resistance. It’s often easier to reduce people, places, and ideas into flattened renderings, rather than grapple with the nuanced and contradictory truths found in their depths. 

Our Columbus chapter chose this month’s exploration of Depth and Bryan Christopher Moss illustrated the theme.

We are happy to be back with our friends at the Amoeba office after a well deserved summer break. Our next event is a special one where Gustav Martner from Greenpeace will be sharing his story with us.

Gustav is the creative who went from being a Golden Lion winner at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to getting banned from the same festival. And this in the most amazingly creative of ways.At our next CreativeMornings event on August 26, we’ll hear more about how Gustav and the rest of the Greenpeace team completely hijacked the coverage of this year’s Cannes Lions by trashing the pompous opening, launching a landing using an army of boats with banners that caused fossil companies to cancel their beach parties in panic and much, much more – all to make the industry realize it’s time to ban fossil ads. Now!
 
This year, when someone talked about Cannes Lions, nobody did it without mentioning Greenpeace. And in the middle of all this was Gustav in his role as Head of Creative at Greenpeace and activist.
 
The tickets (free but strictly limited in number) are out now!

Date: Friday, August 26
Time: 07:30 - 09:00 (talk from 08:25)
Location: Amoeba Office, Tredje Långgatan 13B, 413 03 Gothenburg

August’s theme is Critical, chosen by Creative Mornings Calgary, illustrated by Maedeh Mosaverzadeh, and presented by MailChimp.

To be critical means to be like a sieve, dividing and separating. Our critical abilities allows us to discern the insubstantial from the made-to-last, the credible from the untrustworthy, the sincere from the ego-driven. 

Critical feedback is essential for our growth. But being needlessly critical — especially of ourselves — can stifle the creative impulse. How can we hone our perception, spotting what needs to evolve, without becoming ruthless? How can we remain astute while not losing sight of all that is inherently good and whole? It’s critical.  #CMCritical #Creativemornings

Learn more about her work here.

We travel to the edges of our known world — to wander, to lose ourselves, to commune with the wilderness. Dappled light dripping in through the forest canopy, insects buzzing as feet squelch through wetlands, inhaling the hot dry air and endless skies of desert, we long for this. Some of us seek enchantment and estrangement here. Some of us call it home.We do not exist apart or separate from the wild. In her meditation on trees, poet Grace Paley writes, “we are like any greengrowing machinery / riding the daylight route / into darkness.” The wilderness lives within all of us, the rhythms of our bodies tethering us to the natural world.What is the wilderness that calls you home? Where do you go to wander? How do you honor what is wild and unruly inside of you?Our Chattanooga chapter chose this month’s exploration of Wilderness and Hollie Chastain illustrated the theme.  Stay tuned for more information about our next event and speaker.
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