On February 23rd Gerald Hüther, a German neurobiologist, was invited to talk about how social relations enhance a positive evolvement of unlimited potentials of our brain during our life as a whole. Thus co-creativity within communities is key for appreciative dialogues, touching the heart and thereby stimulating the brains of the speakers. His speech was part of the programme to kick off Innovation Systems’ latest AAL- and Foresight-project SAIL Vienna 2035. With the help of a future-oriented multi-stakeholder process the SAIL Vienna foresight process aims at jointly defining future scenarios of ageing inhabitants of Vienna’s most famous self-governed housing project “Sargfabrik” with respect to requirements on assisting technologies.
In front of project members and invited guests Hüther explained that the human brain is able to grow and develop even at an advanced age, it constantly creates new nerve tracks and nerve cells. He then focused on explaining the meaning of co-creative relations between human beings: Hüther stressed the importance of facing each other as subjects, not as objects, and how co-creativity supports foresight processes.
More information on Hüther’s speech and pictures of the event: http://sailvienna2035.at/news/vortrag-gerald-huether/
The project: http://sailvienna2035.at/das-projekt/
04.03.2016