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Tradition / Innovation Bernd Draser / ecosign Academy ecosign / - - PDF document
Tradition / Innovation Bernd Draser / ecosign Academy ecosign / - - PDF document
Tradition / Innovation Bernd Draser / ecosign Academy ecosign / Academy for Sustainable Design Cologne, Germany / www .ecosign.net Philosophy / Aesthetics / Cultural Studies Bernd Draser / bernd.draser@ecosign.net W hich phrase is more
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Crete / 1 7th century BC Picasso / 1 942 AD
Tradition / Innovation W hat is tradition?
Tradition (1 895) / Tympanum / Library of Congress
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Theodor W. Adorno / Gustav Mahler
„Tradition is sloppiness!“
Theodor W. Adorno / Gustav Mahler
„Tradition is sloppiness!“
Tradition a burden for innovation? Overcoming tradition when incapable
- f problem-solving?
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W hat is tradition?
tradere: passing on / handing over
fsom generation to generation fsom past to present to future
sustaining heritage
W hat is innovation?
innovare: re-newing / re-inventing re-designing / re-shaping creativity / avant-garde
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Crete / 1 7th century BC Picasso / 1 942 AD
Is Picasso tradition? Or avant-garde?
Marcel Duchamp / 1 91 7 Hieronimus Duquesnoy / 1 61 9
Is Duchamp tradition? Or avant-garde?
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Tradition enables Innovation
Innovation is the art of sustaining the tradition for future generations by re-designing it in order to tackle the chalmenges of the present.
Carlos Fuentes / „Myself with Others“ / 1 988
„There is no creation without tradition; the new is an inflection
- n a preceding form;
novelty is always a variation on the past.“
Tradition enables Innovation
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