An Action
Platform
Reclaiming
'Foolishness'

When dictionary definitions become rigid and 'success' is reduced to a single standard answer, we launched this guerrilla campaign for words. We believe the first step to liberating thought is to liberate language itself. The Fool's Dictionary is a living archive, collecting marginalised yet profoundly real life experiences rejected by mainstream values. Each month, we initiate a 'word uprising', inviting 'fools' globally to provide new annotations for stigmatised terms (like 'lying flat' or 'naive'). This is not a word game, but a fundamental cognitive infrastructure aimed at legitimising diverse ways of living.

In a society obsessed with flawless perfection, we deliberately created a space where it's acceptable to 'mess up'. The Failures' Carnival is our most ritualistic act of resistance—featuring a museum of failed projects, a marketplace for exchanging lessons learned, and even awarding a 'Most Valuable Breakdown Award' for the most instructive failure story. We believe that when failure can be openly discussed and carefully analysed, it transforms from personal shame into collective wisdom. Each year, the carnival is a gentle rebellion against the 'winner-takes-all' narrative.

We are the fool investors providing the initial soil for ideas that are 'hard to explain but feel right to do'. While traditional funders demand detailed business plans and ROI projections, we focus on the spark in the proposer's eyes and the sincerity in their words. Whether it's a farmer wanting to replace plastic with mycelium or a retired teacher aiming to start a 'time bank' in their community, they can receive a small grant and our pure trust. We bet not on a project's feasibility, but on humanity's innate creative instinct.

We intentionally lock diverse individuals (poets and AI experts, barbers and quantum physicists) in the same room, giving them an absurd challenge like, 'How can we make the city edible?'. Here, professional jargon becomes a barrier. We encourage participants to clash using their respective disciplinary 'biases'. The goal isn't consensus, but generating enlightening 'creative misunderstandings'. We believe true breakthroughs often occur at the borders between disciplines and common sense.

Change isn't somewhere far away; it's on the street corner. We seek out and support the 'local dreamers' quietly working in their communities—perhaps the retired teacher wanting to revive neighbourhood memory through murals, or the café owner organising swaps for second-hand goods. We provide them with small grants, methodological tools, and global network support, helping them transform neglected local spots (a peeling wall, a deserted corner) into shared neighbourhood treasures. They bring change back from grand narratives to the warm, tangible everyday.

In squares, parks, and by subway stations, we install mobile Listening Walls, inviting passers-by to write down those 'unseasonable' but sincere questions, like, 'Why are we so lonely yet afraid to connect?'. This wall doesn't provide standard answers; it acts as the city's resonance chamber, collecting the collective subconscious often suppressed in daily life. Each quarter, we compile these questions into a 'City of Foolish Questions Report', serving as a starting point for community workshops and public discussions, pushing dialogue beyond polite small talk to the core of existence.

We initiate this 'collective deviation' experiment, inviting people to spend one month choosing a sustainable lifestyle that's 'self-imposed trouble'—like only shopping at local farms or attempting a year-long buying ban. Participants receive our 'Fool's Toolkit' and community support, documenting daily struggles, discoveries, and joys. This isn't asceticism, but an exploratory 'act of behavioural art' aimed at breaking consumerist inertia through personal experience, rediscovering life's texture and community warmth within 'inconvenience'.

At the terminal point for waste, we establish a starting point for hope. This community-level magical workshop collects scraps and unused items from factories and households, sorting them into a free creative materials library. On weekends, artists lead residents in transmuting 'rubbish' into artworks and useful items. Children learn to build castles from cardboard, while adults rediscover the joy of making by repairing old objects. This is not just material recycling; it is a redefinition of the boundaries between 'brand new' and 'discarded'.