What does IF AGORA want?
There is no Today without Yesterday, no Tomorrow without Today!
Knowledge is relative. It grows and changes all the time. At great speed. Something that was unimaginable yesterday is already an old chestnut today. If you want to learn, you have to be willing to combine the old with the new. You must be capable of learning from other people’s experience and open for change. And you must be willing to invest innovative energy and develop creativity.
On the market place IF AGORA, we want to offer both “old knowledge” and “new knowledge”. We invite the experienced leader and the young knowledge pioneer. We invite the mature politician, along with the hungry scientist.
On our market place, we offer both:
- Classical and timeless knowledge, enriched with plenty of experience and a grain of wisdom!
- And totally fresh and young knowledge, just in from having been found out and tested!
Next to the classical booth offering the traditional and well-established knowledge, you should find the pavilion with the newest scientific discoveries. And IF AGORA combines them.
Thus, IF AGORA supports the discourse between classical scientists and the “front runners” and links them to leaders and practical workers. It also generates the interfaces between theory and practice.
In my IF AGORA concept, two terms are important:
Empirism
The term defines a position where you deduce from experience. In my concept, the term is not used for scientific deduction of knowledge from collected data. Instead, it is a metaphor for using accumulated human experience.
Virgin Soil
Last year, new land in the middle of the ocean came into being all by itself in the North Sea near France. The scientists were fascinated. After all, now they get the opportunity to see how new life develops. Isn’t that a nice parallel to our task of learning to understand how our society changes?
Treading on virgin soil means developing creativity and being prepared to accept strategic changes and innovation as creative destruction.
We want to combine empirism and virgin soil. We want to be very pragmatic, using common sense and closeness to reality. Both qualities are something we badly need in our so very complicated world. All we have to do is show the courage to ask questions about what seemed to be self-evident. And we have to be ready and willing to learn from the old and yet tread on virgin soil.
The market place IF AGORA is supposed to link Yesterday with Today and Today with Tomorrow, thus building bridges between the “new world” and the “old world”.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
Here is the first article on the project AGORA (1). And here are AGORA (2), AGORA (4), AGORA (5) and AGORA (6).
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