The KaosPilots

International School of New Business Design & Social Innovation

Team 11

Change the gameAn education about hope, learning, playful leadership and how to navigate in times of turbulence.

A 3-year educational programme located in Aarhus, Denmark’s 2nd largest city.

The KaosPilot programme is equivalent to a Danish professions Bachelor degree, meaning íts based on practical work and training of individual skills, rather than on the underlying theory itself!

www.kaospilot.dk

What is your mission?”It is our view that design – The human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes – has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all systems and economies are becomming global, relational, and interconnected. We need to evolve a global society that has the capacity to direct and control the emerging forces in order to achieve the most positive outcome. We must ask ourselves, now that we can do anything, what will we do?”

Bruce Mau, Toronto 2003

Applicants1We are looking for 35 students to join Team 11 at The KaosPilot School.

• If you are between 21 and 31 years.

• if you consider yourself to be potentially creative.

• If you have an entrepeneural mindset

• If you’re looking for an extraordinary education - this could be it!

Education

Disciplines

Values

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Education1How to qualify for the society of tommorow?

How to invent new and sustainable solutions to old problems?

How to design organisations and business initiatives that are economically indpendent, serve a common good - based on your desire to make a difference!

Main disciplines

3Creative Project Design

Creative Business Design

Creative Process Design

Tell me and I’ll forget,

Show me and I’ll remember,

Involve me and I’ll understand!

Project Design

3Creative Project Design

The massive rate of change that challenges most organisations, seems to be accelerating rather than being a momentary condition.

This means that nearly every task is new in its own way, and demands its own approach. Therefore the project is increasingly chosen as organisational model, in business-life and in society in general.

The KaosPilot education gives you the qualifications and competences to design and manage projects, that utilize options offered by chaotic conditions.

You will be trained in the following disciplines:

• Project management

• Project economy

• Intrapreneurship

• Event design

Business Design

3Creative Business Design

The KaosPilot education takes its starting point in your personal interessests and values, and gives you the knowledge and skills needed to start your own business.

Approximately one fifth of the graduates from The KaosPilots start their own business within a few years after graduation.

You will be trained in the following disciplines:

• Entrepreneurship

• Business economy

• Social awareness and sustainability

• Arts and business

• Corporate identity and branding

• PR and marketing

Process Design

3In a society increasingly based on knowledge industries, each organisation’s value, and raison d’être depend strongly on the capability to master internal processes and with this, the capability to utilize the employees’ knowledge and competences towards achieving concrete results.

Process Design is defined as the capability to create and facilitate processes that bring teams towards realizing their goals, visions and values.

You will be trained in the following disciplines:

• Learning processes

• Creative processes

• Personal leadership

• Team-building

• Process consultation

Content11st year - TOOLBOXAll the basic tools, theories and methods

2nd year - SPECIALIZATIONLeadership and process facilitation.

Project Design in a European context.

3rd year - INNOVATIONBusiness Design

Global internship

Individual project assignment

Values6 In designing the educational programme the KaosPilots take their starting point in following 6 guiding values:

Playful Play is the way children learn. We still believe that joy in work and having fun create unique learning environments.

StreetwiseNew solutions emerges not only from science, but also from the kids in the street.

CompassionWe don’t strive to become the best school in the world, but to become the best school for the world.

RisktakingWithout the courage to make mistakes, there’s no renewal.

BalanceWe strive towards coherence between mind and body, the individual and the community, the local and the global.

Real WorldAll assignments at the KaosPilots are based on solving real challenges for external partners.

How to join The KaosPilots?

STAGE ONE

STAGE TWO

Application form:From the end of January 2004 you can download the application form from our website (www.kaospilot.dk). The form also includes a creative assignment.

Deadline for applications is March 26th.

Application Workshop:Based on the application forms we invite approx. 70 qualified applicants for a two day workshop, taking place the 24-25th of April.

This gives us a chance to rate who we find the most fit for the programme, and it also gives you an oppurtunity to decide whether the education suites you!

STAGE THREE: Team 11 starts at The KaosPilots on the 30th of August 2004.

What if we were to willingly listen to one another with the awareness that we each

see the world in unique ways? And with the expectation that I could learn something

new if I listen for the differences rather than the similarities?

Margaret Wheatley (Author, teacher and speaker, USA)