The Roman philosopher Seneca said that the best ideas are common property; suggestions emerge from anyone and are immediately explored and transcended. Abstract ideas are common property freely available to all. People and their ideas travel freely, creating new opportunities and partnerships wherever they go.

 

This kind of collective approach to innovation questions the Intellectual property* rights, creating a collective ownership of any individual creation of the mind…

 

As this theory is urging to be put to a test, we will perform a little experiment during the Secret Places Festival. Set up in an art-installation of its own, you, the visitors of the festival will either confirm or falsify Seneca’s theory…

 

“And I would like to tell you a little secret, ideas are and will always remain common property…. Human beings are only a medium to communicate those pretty ideas, dreams and wishes…. An idea is of collective ownership. Just imagine, I would tell you NOT to think of an elephant. Too late, it just happened….”