Imagination
After a „homecoming to one’s better self“ we have chosen
„Imagination“ as an open Leitmotiv: mon drapeau.
We started with the Einstein quote „Imagination is more
powerful than knowledge“ and moved on to Goethe „Imagination
lies in the wait as the most powerful enemy, naturally raw,
and enamored of absurdity, it breaks out against all civilizing
restraints like a savage who takes the delight in grimacing
idols“, we chose „innovation delivered“ as claim and decorate
our working tables with the sign „Imagine“ eluding IBM’s
earlier signs „Think“.
It may be a contrapuntal endeavor to strive for a restoration
of „Imagination“ in the realm of law and lawyers. With a
certain detachment and irony of attitude and tone the times
for the unexpected might have come. It is an expression
of hope and creativity and a reliance on powerful potentials.
It favors thinking out of the box. It combines rigor and
clarity with courage and commitment in a playful and graceful
way; it contains a potential for emancipation and change.
When intellectuals succumb to the lure of money, power and
specialization it gives room to the impossible, unexpected
and irreverent eluding dogma, ideology and logic. It bridges
the gap between science of law and art of law, it makes
an intellectual homo ludens a playful broker between expectation
and experience, it brings back, as said elsewhere, a disciplinary
libido to the current lawyering of the „amateur professional
and the professional amateur“, his institutions and his
language. Imagination is a seducing meta-strategem of the
cunning or as a famous Jazz singer sang in a chorus: „Imagination
is funny it makes a cloudy day sunny it makes a bee think
of honey, just as I think of you...“
We strive to realize the
Leitmotiv Imagination wherever and whenever professional and
personal life offers an opportunity, be it in devising consulting
strategies and new didactic methods in teaching, in chosing out
of the box writing topics and new formats in the academic, cultural
and teaching encounters in "The Salon" as well as in creating a
different work experience in a collection of modern art. You
therefore may turn to work of art "how to work better" by the
Swiss Artists Peter Fischli/ David Weiss, two masters in the
realm of imagination.
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