Diversity Drives Innovation!

Tali Ramsey, ideaXme guest contributor and writer specialising in contemporary art, internet culture and society, interviews Tim Robin Reichel, ideaXme’s new Diversity Ambassador.

Everyone looks for something larger than themself

Tim Reichel is a student living in Berlin and studying English as well as Media and Communications. He is also an activist and member of Amnesty International’s queer group in Berlin. His studies focus on diversity and culture, especially questions related to Gender, Queer, and Postcolonial Studies, and he recognises that there is currently a paradigm shift resulting in diversity becoming a focal point in our culture.

His research explores how power relations in society play a key role in shaping culture and how power dynamics influence cultural processes.

The intersection of innovation and diversity in the future

Tim believes that ideaXme is the perfect platform to promote diversity and that diversity is vital in moving our stories forward. If everyone has a seat at the table, true innovation can take place as the result of numerous voices being heard and contributing, allowing new methods and procedures to be developed and evaluated from different perspectives.

On this show Tim Reichel will talk about:

The inevitability of “othering” in order to develop and understand one’s own identity. The concept of agonism, and how it can stop us seeing the other as the enemy. How a synthesis of diverse ideas creates innovation, and the potential this has for culture and society.

He will also discuss who he would like to meet and why and what made him choose to work with ideaXme to pioneer diversity on the platform.

This interview is in British English

Credit: Tali Ramsey

Follow ideaXme on Twitter: @ideaxme

On Instagram: @ideaxme

On YouTube: ideaxme

Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes, SoundCloud, Radio Public, TuneIn Radio, I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more.

ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.