From today until saturday the MZW will host the first "Berliner Biennale für Management und Beratung im System". We will be there as well, so just call (+43 512 574749 1010) if you're up for a chat. Short translation of the neat conference description:

"So far, modern day society has relied on its organizations and institutions: public authorities, businesses, schools and theaters, curches and armies have established and sustained law and order; they have coordinated socially necessary labour and work, generated taxes and allocated goods and services of this world to all of us.

However, these organisations cannot rely on society any longer.Technological progress, the crisis of hierarchies and the rise of new social environments have pulled the rug out from under them. For the past couple of decades, almost unnoticeably, a change has been occurring - a change at the end of which the purpose and goals of these organizations and institutions can no longer be taken for granted. Rather, they have to be searched for and defined anew on a daily basis. Instead of yesterday's steady business, there's uncertainty all of a sudden. The future is unknown, organizations and institutions are unsettled, and society is alarmed."

A brilliant side project will also be going on (november 19.th):

"Assault on depression: How to ambush a depression? Basically just like a bank: One group is digging, another one is keeping a lookout, a third disables the alarm system and opens the safe while the drivers are waiting outside with the engines running. We are thinking of a fairly big assault on a huge amount of depression.

 Please bring an object that became a personal symbol for something extraordinarily depressing - something you wanted to get rid of for a long time. The item shouldn't be longer than 6 cm"