How do organizations such as Burning Man, Google, Maker Faire and The Flux Foundation enable people to consistently make such incredible inventions? What can businesses learn from these wildly creative and successful groups? They each prioritize the cultivation of “permission engines,” wherein innovations in art, science and technology flourish without limitation. When people feel inspired, engaged, and supported, and are given permission to exercise their full creative potential, the opportunities for invention are endless. But how do you foster that kind of freedom in your organization?

1. Platforms of Permission
Fueling Creativity

3. Our Mission is to engage
people in designing and
building public art as a
catalyst for education,
collaboration and
empowerment.

4. We are:
A New model for the
exploration of art through
a highly developed
collaborative practice

5. We believe:
•Every step in the art-making process is an
opportunity for learning and growth
•Individual contributions are fundamental to the
whole
•Anyone can be an artist
•All that matters is your drive to learn and your
passion to create. We can teach you the rest
•Each project is a vehicle to learn new technical
skills, cultivate a critical approach to art

6. We don’t just create public
art; we create public artists

7. What you need

9. What it looks like
• Gratitude
• Support
• Access
• Vulnerability
• Experimentation
• Listening
• Scaffolding
• Engagement
• Horizontal Leadership
• Patience
• Empathy
• Research
• Expertise
• Horizontal Learning
• Fun

11. How it is done

13. Say YES

15. Misstakes are
information

17. Don’t need to
know how,
just need
enthusiasm to learn

19. Every teacher
a student
and every student
a teacher

21. A continual state of
learning and
research through
doing!

23. Use spectacle to
disable social
inhibitors to create a
social condition of
permission

24. • Temple at night image

25. Language is
important

27. Do not covet your
ideas

29. Everyone's
contribution
is fundamental
to the whole

31. The process is
important

33. Working towards
a common goal

35. Collaboration is
Key!

37. You are the
vision holder. Its
your job to help
people succeed.

38. You are the one
who can see how
to get from here:

40. To here:

42. You break it
down:

43. Temple of Flux

45. You practice and
learn through
doing:

47. In the end you
are all artists who
built this:

49. An more
importantly this:

51. www.fluxfoundation.org info@fluxfoundation.org
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