Why you shouldn't make fun of the innovation theatre?
- Yorai Gabriel
- Jun 1, 2019
- 2 min read
The innovation theatre is frequently mocked as fake innovation. Its part of the fake agile, design is bullshit, lean is mean and other seasonal high profile Incitement on modern practices.
Here is why I think the innovation theatre is more critical than seems.
The theatre is where a play occurs, if you want to see how the play is organised, go to the theatre.
In his famous Ted talk, IDEO's Tim Brown, explained why play is important to creativity. Making fun of play doesn't allow to observe and inquire the real reasons for a particular play. it conforms a rigid expectation and entry level. So the innovation theatre, mockery is an exhibition of cynicism that does little beyond childish nihilism.
We can learn from the history of drama that it allow deciphering the instrumentalization of behaviour. In other words, it enables us to understand what's the purpose of expression.
If our lives and works are stages in a theatre then what can we learn about life by looking at it as a drama?
Drama is a social tool. Drama is also a fundamental emotional experience each one has encountered. The reason drama is so important is because it allow us to explore practices in an organised culture.
How do we use drama? As a mean of communication or as a mean of personal mastery? Probably both, but which one's first?
As societies democratise and as cultures meet, we enjoy the tremendous liberty to bring our own life on stage. Not in the sense of an improve evening in a comedy store, but also in sense of mindfulness - a deep observational capacity of our own part in life and societies
What can we learn from our own drama? The stage we play in, and the state both are?








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