ABSTRACT
In a world that has entered a highly fragile state, crises are the new normal. Rosa interprets this ongoing crisis period as a crisis of time, which encompasses almost all areas of life. Simultaneously with professional fields of disaster control and crisis preparation, attempts are made to approach crises and unforeseen events with improvisations and provisional solutions.
The failed Apollo 13 lunar mission of 1970 will be the first means to examine which aspects force (time-)crisis, improvisational action and provisional solutions. I question the extent to which necessity is the mother of invention. Furthermore, with the help of music, art and cognitive science, a precise determination of the potential for creativity of improvisation will be examined. In this way, this chapter introduces a perspective that allows the concepts of improvisation and creativity in relation to time crisis to be placed more firmly within the disciplines of educational science and ethnography.
