It’s about time someone added chutzpah into conferences! Aren’t most conferences about remembering the lines but forgetting the theatre of it all? Peter van Lindonk, the co-founder of the annual PINC-Conference, knows this better than most people as he rounds up people in Amsterdam around one theme and one theme only: creativity. PINC stands for People Ideas Nature Creativity and unites people on passion over content. Of course, there’s something to be said about embracing passion over discipline; think about De Bono, the creativity guru who was a physician, author, inventor, and consultant or Bucky Fuller, the American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist who pioneered “spaceship earth.” What they all have in common is this irreverence for compartmentalizing ideas by discipline.
If you’re obsessed with sea turtles on the Galapagos Islands or cooking vegan lunches in schools in the Bronx… as long as you’re fired up and have got your momentum going, you’re probably the ideal audience for this unusual event. Peter, in his ringmaster’s guise, takes us on the journey of the circus across time, asking us why we as a society are so apprehensive of embracing the child in us. So shall we view this as a modern day renaissance formalized through the theatrics of an annual PINC event? If this point wasn’t driven in by his talk, it definitely did the trick through an astonishing, jaw-dropping dance performance.
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