Co-Creation Lab

Co-CreationLab is an organisation and a platform for the development of visionary youth leadership around the globe, founded by Indira Hasimbegovic and Rita Christina Biza in 2006. It is based on the idea that social change and tranformation in social, political, environmental, disciplinary or economic fields depends on the ability of the world today to recognise young people as resourceful, innovative and responsible creators of tomorrow´s world. It equaly depends on our responsibility and ability to create educational spaces that nurture, celebrate, promote and encourage the innovative youth spirit.

TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF YOUTH

It is central that we focus on developing, nurturing and enouraging the visionary spirit of the youth in the world.

It begins with n education based on the principles of responsibility, co-operation, tolerance, diversity, holsitic understanding of the world and sustainbaility.

In order to nurture the potential of the visions that the young people carry, we must help them to develop their ability to:

- take seriously their dreams and visions

- identify and navigate by their own unique values

- understand their life in relation to the whole

- recognise their pioneering potential

- think proactively, responsibly and visionary

- exercise responsibility for the whole in their actions

- work in co-operative and co-creative spirit

- carry the vision to concrete manifestation

- practice the change they wish to see manifest

- BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITIES!!!






Friday, September 14, 2007

About: Co-CreationLab: The project platform


The heart and the soul of Co-CreationLab is its vision about social transformation for the benefit of the people and the planet through the development of youth potential. This vision is what breaths life into each projects and what binds all our activities and engagements together: it is the very fundament upon which the Lab is built, providing the ground for everything that is created here.

The projects are always going to differ in nature, even if they are carried by the same vision. They must do so, if we are remain faithful and sensitive to the uniquness and the singularity of each context, of the partisipants, of the needs and of the ideas.

Co-CreationLab as a Project Room is a place of innovation and manifestation, where the dream about a better world is given life and concrete shapes through co-operation and co-creation with the world´s youth. It is a room with the doors wide open to anyone, anywhere in the world inspired by a dream like ours and who believes in the endless potential of the future. This space is not pre-determined - it is continuously being shaped and changed by different encounters and creations, thus creating an openness towards what the future may bring. The only limits to what can happen and be created in such a space where play, uniqueness, diversity, courage and creativity are encouraged are set by our imagination.

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