Slides from my closing key note at DARE 2013 in Antwerp

1. The Art of Culture
Hacking
Stefan Haas, www.haaslab.net, @haaslab, stefan.haas@haaslab.net

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3. Hacking
The act of engaging in activities (such as
programming or other media) in a spirit of
playfulness and exploration is termed hacking.
However the defining characteristic of a hacker is
not the activities performed themselves (e.g.
programming), but the manner in which it is done:
Hacking entails some form of excellence, for
example exploring the limits of what is possible,
thereby doing something exciting and meaningful.
Wikipedia

4. “The hacker mind-set is not confined
to this software-hacker culture. There
are people who apply the hacker
attitude to other things, like
electronics or music — actually, you
can find it at the highest levels of
any science or art. Software hackers
recognize these kindred spirits
elsewhere and may call them ‘hackers’
too — and some claim that the hacker
nature is really independent of the
particular medium the hacker works
in.”
Eric Steven Raymond, How to Become a Hacker

5. „I am very relaxed now,
since I am responsible for what I
am saying, you are responsible for
what you are hearing”, Humberto
Maturana
transmediale08,
2008,
Berlin,
Haus
der
Kulturen
der
Welt

6. Who of you does suffer
from stage fright?

7. public speaking is one of the most common fears,
topping flying, financial ruin, sickness, and even death

8. NEW THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOCIAL PHOBIA, Clinical Psychology Review 1989, P. Tower, P. Gilbert
agonic mode
For much of group-based
evolution, the organization of
social behavior is controlled by
power relationships, of which
social anxiety is a very
important, not to say, vital,
component.

12. h8p://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2012/oct/24/ai-­‐weiwei-­‐gangnam-­‐style-­‐video

13. Use Check In to begin meetings or anytime an individual or group Check In
would add more value to the current team interactions.
Steps
1.Speaker says “I feel [one or more of MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID].”
Speaker may provide a brief explanation. Or if others have already
checked in, the speaker may say “I pass.” (See the Pass protocol.)
2.Speaker says “I’m in.” This signifies that Speaker intends to behave
according to the Core Commitments.
3.Listeners respond, “Welcome.”
Commitments
• State feelings without qualification.
• State feelings only as they pertain to yourself.
• Be silent during another’s Check In.
• Do not refer to another’s Check In disclosures without explicitly granted
permission from him or
her.
Check In
h8p://www.mccarthyshow.com/the-­‐core-­‐protocols-­‐online/

14. NEW THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOCIAL PHOBIA, Clinical Psychology Review 1989, P. Tower, P. Gilbert
hedonic mode
social groups are
structured in terms of
cooperation, equality,
and mutual support

15. http://youtu.be/dUHCN4GgjFM

17. Louis Bunuel
1900 - 1983
“God and Country are
an unbeatable team;
they break all records
for oppression and
bloodshed.”

18. Surrealists aimed at resolving the previously
contradictory conditions of dream and reality
They assumed that excessive rational thought and
bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war
upon the world

19. "Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one
proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the
written word, or in any other manner -- the actual
functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in
the absence of any control exercised by reason,
exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern."
Surrealist Manifesto, 1924, André Breton

22. 663811 unhappy with their job in austria
via martin heider

23. Inspiring People
who Transform
their Organisation
to an Agile Mindset

24. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC1C9F5C39EBF7266

25. “Cultural Hacking can be
understood as
infiltration into systems
and the changing of their
coding. It is a critical,
often even subversive
game with cultural codes,
messages and values.”
Johannes M. Hedinger, Com&Com, culturalhacking.wordpress.com/cultural-hacking

26. “The culture of a group can now be
defined as a pattern of shared basic
assumptions learned by the group as it
solved its problems of external
adaptation and internal integration,
which has worked well enough to be
considered valid and, therefore to be
taught to new members as the correct
way you perceive, think, and feel in
relation to those problems.”
Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership

27. Marina Abramović , Rhythm 0. 1974
„Art can only be done in destructive societies that have to be rebuilt.“

28. “Thus every group must solve the
problems of member identity,
common goals, mechanisms of
influence, and how to manage both
agression and love through norms
around authority and intimacy.
Norms that work gradually become
cultural assumptions.”
Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership

29. Artifacts
Expoused Values
Underlying Assumptions
LEVELS OF
CULTURE
Edgard H. Schein

30. How to Hack Culture?
1. 1>
OBSERVE
2. 2>
FIND
THE
CRACK
3. 3>
MAKE
ART
4. 4>
FIND
THE
OTHERS
5. 5>
CATALYZE
6. 6>
EXPLOIT
LANGUAGE
7. 7>
INSTITUTIONALIZE
8. 8>
LET
GO
9. 9>
GO
BACK
TO
1.
Sebastian Paquet, IgniteTalk, 2010

31. “If people never did silly
things nothing intelligent
would ever get done.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
< Fear
of
Loosing
Face
http://youtu.be/7bAwtnSFu7U

32. h8p://randommanager.com/

33. “By leaving art and ideas in public spaces, you can affect someones
day - change their mood and mind - and even change the world in
the process!” Keri Smith (Guerilla Art Kit)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC1C9F5C39EBF7266

34. Urban Space =
Social Construct =
Changeable =
Lots of Funhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC1C9F5C39EBF7266