From article written by Stellan Danielson from Sweden…I want to highlight Bergstroem’s theory about the importance of freedom, place and space for children to develop their creativity, an important ingredient in the identity of successful Argentine and Brazilian soccer players. Bergstroem is concerned about children’s need for a space where they play and can give free rein and scope to their fantasy and imagination. In short, Bergstroem means that children need room, time and permission to play accelerated games with their whole bodies. Games with great body movements will stimulate motor learning. According to Bergstroem, children are, by nature, creative and seek excitement. They experiment with everything they see at the same time as they realize their fantasies and their creativity. Children live in a world of possibilities, where they play their games borne out of fantasies and dreams. Play, from the view of the brain, is the supply of chaos, which leads to development through the turbulence that chaos causes. (The Soccer Journal)
Thus is born the Chaos game!
This is from Start-Up Nation, The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle:
Thus, the most formidable obstacle to fluidity is order. A bit of mayhem is not only healthy but critical. The leading thinkers in this area – economists Baumol, Litan and Schramm – argue that the ideal environment is best described by a concept in “complexity science” called the “edge of chaos”. They define that edge as the “estuary region where rigid order and random chaos meet and generate high levels of adaptation, complexity and creativity.”
From http://thestrikerschool.com/
