Re-public of creative uncertainty –
we are kin 

Nations begin with a constitution, creative commerce begins with a brief, kin begins without a map, or a list, or a border.

Kin begins with creative uncertainty and the grouping of people and things we gather when everything becomes research, when the world changes so much that it becomes an experiment. Not only do we gather all these things up, we are gathered up too. It’s natural at moments like this to feel troubled by it all. Yet, trouble leads to interruption – we perceive that as a gift.

One of our heroes, philosopher Donna Haraway, says that we need to stay with the trouble, and “staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present”. Presence is where life is, where the best relationships emerge in moments, with our human and non-human families, with ourselves. Our kin exists only in our; breath, joy, love and play. We know that is where we do our best learning – in flow. Yet, we recognise these are hard to grasp, comprehend and sometimes even notice. 

This experiment in Kin was inspired by educational research and client work organised around the concept of uncertainty. The experience of uncertainty is a learning challenge because uncertainty shifts the terrain, it shifts the knowledges and skills conventionally used, and it shifts the people who defined themselves by the certainty of their role in the terrain.  

Kin shifts the old model of innovation as interruption. Kin is an experiment in voicing a public where change is about novel, creative relationships, celebrating kin-in-the-making. Kin is letting go of categories and labels. Kin is beyond boundaries yet comfortable in discomfort. Kin is safe in knowing that not-knowing is where new creative relationships emerge. Kin is a joyous mess and the stuff we create from the mess.

In creativity uncertainty – we are kin.

Help create the Kin we will need to make better futures. 

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