THE 8 PILLARS OF ALTERNATIVES-A
1. Social Responsibility
Besides our lifestyle of saving and reusing, our social program includes:
a. Pro Bono training in creativity to children with no economic means to pay the tuition.
b. Auctions to support specific cases that require urgent attention.
c. Bringin our creativity program to less developed regions of the world and help them discover their potential for development and growth.
d. Support new talents with mentoring sessions and space where they can present their works to the public for the first time.
2. Understand reality
When exploring with the purpose of discovering a new something, we explore the existing reality. This is very important, especially for innovation. We cannot innovate upon something we do not deeply understand.
3. Solid on the basics
Key to any successful creative process is knowledge of the basic components forming the new "something". At Alternatives-A we aim at forming strong basis so that our students' creations and clients don't fall apart in the process.
4. Exploration and Imagination
The new, the innovative, the creative something is the result of exploration. After a "great" idea spark on the surface, the exploration process starts. It is at this stage when we discover that new thing that is about to become reality. An explorative mind is a requirement from all those who aim at developing their creative capacity and ideal self.
5. Find connections
We exist within a system. Every one of us and every object is part of that system. The core of any creative process is finding connections; once such connections are identified, we are ready to proceed with the making something truly new that is creative.
6. Plan
Identifying connections allows us to picture the future "new-something" we are about to create. Here is when planning becomes the task we should focus on. And it's only at this stage when planning really means something concrete. The skills of planning are of course the key to reproducing that picture with more accuracy.
7. Trial & Trial
Every plan is a semifinal blueprint of a process. In that process, we try and try again, and in every trial, we come closer and closer to our final blueprint.
8. Follow up
Regardless of how long it takes, one hour or twenty years, creating is a process one has to follow up, or otherwise, that original idea would never become reality. The methodology we use to follow up matters to maximize our efforts.