Creative Insights

This ByBa BAT proposes distinguishing intelligence from competence. Through the allegory of a chimpanzee capable of serving coffee and accidentally destroying humanity, it suggests that the danger of AI may not be evil or excessive intelligence, but an enormous capacity to act before understanding context, consequences, limits and responsibility.

María Elena Walsh transformed absurdity, wordplay and imagination into gateways towards new ways of seeing. Her songs and stories did more than entertain children: they legitimised their questions and invited them to alter the rules of possibility. Her creative legacy reminds us that imagining also means giving an impossible idea permission to keep growing.

ByBa Thesis #8 argues that the human world is not made: it is being made. Everything created so far does not exhaust the possible; it only proves that making world is possible. If we understand that we are born into an incomplete world, creativity stops being decoration and becomes agency to build what is missing.

This ByBa BAT continues the journey begun in Amsterdam and arrives in postwar London, where Lady Allen transformed bombed sites into adventure playgrounds. There, children did not only interpret space: they could build it, dismantle it and transform it. A reflection on play, ruins, open materials and creativity as reconstruction.

ByBa Thesis #9 argues that ideas cannot be stockpiled: we can store their description, but not their condition as living solutions. An idea appears when creative stock enters into friction with a present need. It is not about accumulating flames, but carrying matches: increasing our capacity to produce fire when needed.