- We are living in a time of cataclysmic change. In the midst of economic, environmental, societal, biological, political and scientific stresses, Lehman B promotes a pioneering, brave and risk-friendly mindset to navigate the unpredictability and turbulence of the post-cataclysmic environment.
- Established as a collaborative and curational platform, Lehman B draws on a vast network of spearheading creatives and opinion-makers, and relies on hands-on investigation to welcome and embrace change. With insight and analysis, it turns information and intelligence into workable future solutions.
- Lehman B's bottom-up, betapreneurial mindset accepts seemingly counterintuitive processes as it facilitates under-the-radar collaborative explorations that take a fluid and civic approach to societal changes and future strategies.
- Lehman B firmly believes in the exciting future ahead. It embraces and supports new alternatives, initiatives and instigations that focus on fundamental and radical societal change – and that, in doing so, inspire us towards brave new lives.
- Supertramp, a pushbike caravan, will act as my permanent mobile home, while doubling as an agency and social-facility point: with an intimate bar featuring just three seats. Through this, I hope to create a social and experimental platform where new lives will be lived and inspired.
- I will move around London on a weekly basis, setting up in proximity to bars, restaurants, studios, companies and galleries. I will host nightly events with casual and curated conversations, facilitate workshops and invite key speakers to host special nights.
SUPERTRAMP WEEKLY SUMMER CONTENT
- Curated Conversations – Every week, a new speaker will host a themed session in Supertramp. This will be a key opportunity for an intimate and first-hand conversation about topical issues, guided and facilitated by your host.
- WhyYesShops – Facilitated by spearheading creatives and academic opinion-makers, WhyYesShops explore the edges of existence and investigate new life potentials. Through these, we seek to explore new future solutions and inspire to brave new lives.
- Casual Conversation – We host open discussions in an intimate forum, where real communication and contemplation can take place. New ideas will be inspired and explored.
- Crazy Congregations – Once a month, Supertramp will host a larger nightly congregation celebrating togetherness. With an invited house orchestra of the month, these events will be lush and liberating nights with golden conversations and archaic altruism.
We warmly invite both speakers and the general public to get involved in what will be a hot and conversational summer. Below is a breakdown of some of the topical themes we will discuss and explore as part of the journey.
01. Counter Social and Economic Theory – A look at the way commerce and culture is organised, pinpointing the weakness in those structures Counterestablishment culture – New social norms – System failure – Soft radicalism – Sector convergence We set out to explore how our existing social and economic organisational systems work, focusing on the weakness in the models. Here, we suggest that the current framework is worn out and no longer relevant. We suggest this to be an integral part of the societal breakdown driving us towards cataclysmic change. We consider how systems of organisations are based on dated experience models and decadent bureaucracy rather than real innovation and pioneership, and we question the absurdity in the systems that we have all come to live by. Ultimately, we investigate and explore new alternative ways of organisation that would allow for a more fluid and flexible way of living.
02. Fractional Living – The move towards more fluid living, in terms of how we work, how we define employment and where we live Molecular structures – Blurring dogmas – Cloud working – Business fluidity – Outsourced living We take a closer look at some real case studies, examining just how people are already beginning to embrace a more fractional and fluid existence in terms of the way they live, work and interact. We examine outsourced living, shared facilities, molecular business structures and Bleisure – a term coined by The Future Laboratory to describe the blur between business and leisure. We explore how fractional and fluid living suggest a more sensible approach than does a static society based on Excel spreadsheets and forms.
03. Antiheroic Culture – Why failing is good, and how our mindsets will shift to be less afraid of producing something that is imperfect The new heroism – Embracing failure – Failure fatal The most important element in all creation and development is to embrace and celebrate failure as much as we do success. In understanding the beauty of failure, we rule out the option to fail at all. In an Antiheroic Culture, we no longer laugh at the daring and the pioneering, but celebrate those people who put their reputation at stake for everyone’s learning and gain.
04. Business in Punk – A new experimental, immediate and tangible approach to business Noisy commerce – Ideological innovation – Punk capitalist – Societal enterprise A new-generation business mindset is emerging, driving change in the way we do business. Business is no longer about being able to create a dull, 200-page proposal, but about setting out small, doing it and testing it. Growing up networked, digital natives are redefining the very core of business incentives. They set up businesses in beta, and do so on ideological ground – simply because they can. We explore this aspirational and ‘noisy’ attitude to commerce, where profit is considered a mere side product of doing what you believe in. We consider why small, radical, pioneering and networked business makes sense in an increasingly turbulent time.
05. The Taboos of Tomorrow – The new social architecture that will dictate future codes of behaviour Social Norming - Nudging - Anti-social behaviour - Moral and ethical codes If divorce in the 50s, gay marriage in the 80s and driving an SUV around town in 2010 are all common past and present taboos, what are the taboos or unacceptable social behaviours of tomorrow? In exploring the taboos of tomorrow, we touch on social norming and the nature of nudging. By pinning down these speculative scenarios, we learn not only about what we currently expect to be morally right or wrong in our society, but we also explore what our moral codes of tomorrow will be, and map those behaviours that might be deemed unacceptable.
06. Microliving – The new shift to downsizing, in terms of choice, consumption and what we need to survive Parasitic culture – Peripatetic lifestyles – Nomads – Home factories – Shared facilities – Micro communities We explore real-life scenarios and examples of people who are living on the edge of existence, in microsized formats. From Supertramp’s own nomadic lifestyle to home factories and parasitic architectural structures, we explore how and why new microsized lifestyle formats help create a more adaptable and fluid urban landscape and society, increase liveability in our cities, and usher in greater survival of the masses.
07. Value Change – The move from monetary to more emotional and knowledge-based exchanges New currencies – Micro economies – Knowledge bartering – Emotional value Values are changing in relation to how wealth, quality and luxury are perceived. New microeconomic models are being explored, based on emotional and knowledge-based parameters. From new local currencies and knowledge exchange to cultured platforms and intellectual democracy, monetary exchanges as we know them are increasingly made redundant as we bypass existing financial systems to glean real value and insight. In building extensive networked platforms that enable us to share insights and knowledge, the notion of DIT – do it together – gains a whole new meaning. We explore the full potential of a society where individual ownership becomes less relevant, and collaborative mindsets that prioritise sharing and interaction become the real commodity.
08. 2D to 3D Living – The increasing importance of tangible, tactile artefacts and experiences Tactile and haptic feedback – Sensory landscapes – Experience culture – On/offline We consider why we will increasingly crave a more instant and three-dimensional world in a sensory and experience-driven society – why instigations ‘in real life’ seem so fresh and engaging, with their tactile qualities and sense of real feedback. With information overload and our brain neurons struggling to keep up with filtering the vast quantity of digital data produced annually, we step back into more sensory ways of interpreting and understanding information, using not only our brains but our whole body as well. We explore hypertechnological solutions to overcoming data overload as well as more analogue ways of bringing the two dimensions together.