Education & Personal Development
Talks
Speaker:
Rob Jameson (Co-founder + CEO, AnyShare)
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Arcosanti is an experimental town in the desert of Arizona, which fuses architecture and ecology together, it was all built by volunteers.
Paolo Soleri was the original architect (1919-2003). He designed the city for 4 000 people, but currently only 80 people live there (but 30 000 visitors/year). Why is it not massive ?
“City as an organism” refers to the impact of architecture on the environment.
Basic steps to go the city as organism : Base needs met Strong commons My body <-> City Body relationship Organism ideas/needs/Resources (you don’t feel alone anymore (if you see garbage in the street, you feel just like there would be garbage in your living room and you pick it up!) Autonomy in participation Telepathic/Synchronistic reality : just from someone’s eyes you can understand their feelings and needs
Three core lessons : Where to focus ? On collective happiness ? But people always find ways to be unhappy ! even when you give them everything to satisfy their basic needs… So rather Focusing on collective awareness, on what does it mean to have a city as organism -> and so people will get the sense of joy indirectly ! Democratizing the edges : be as inclusive as possible Centralized value lists : ones the needs are identified clearly, they can be fulfilled very easily by the network, by the community
'Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.' (Jane Jacobs)
Goal for the future: Make of Arcosanti the first example of a crowdsourced city in the world !
The first sign you see when coming to Arcosanti is saying “welcome to the urban laboratory“ !
Speaker:
Patrycja Slawuta (Founder, SelfHackathon)
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After having met all these interesting and inspiring people at the Fest you will go outside and meet people who will say that you have crazy ideas, etc…how to deal with this ?
Selfhackaton started with one observation : there was no place to learn how to code yourself (what is much more important than learning how to code !)
Mindhacking : Framework : human mind is the most valuable (and scarce) resource Human mind is a living code (new neurons are constantly being created, the brain is constantly evolving) (hardware : our body / software : our feelings, emotions, ideas/ the wetware is in-between, it’s our brain)
How to hack the Human OS : Head : the source of beliefs, thoughts (but research shows that 40% of all our actions are automatic ! 80 000 thoughts/a day for women (a bit less for men). Up to 90% of these thoughts are the same ! Pre-installed apps : gender roles, religion, … But there are also a bench of apps that you can install ! Confidence : confidence is a power to rather than a power over ! A power to do, to say, to be what you really are ! Self-compassion : it’s a bubble bath for your mind Self-awareness : when you really start to look at yourself (but the little creature inside of us is so shy that we really need to look at it as an anthropologist !)
Heart : how does it look like ? “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” (V. Frankel)
Body : we first look at the body language then we look at the voice (the first way to hack yourself is to surround yourself with people who you really want to be with !)
Speaker:
Jean Philippe Rosier (Partner, Perestroika)
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Two photographies as an introduction: 1903/2013 : nothing changed in our educational system !
At Perestroika we think of education as a fun, a pleasure stuff ! We want to be nominated as the worst school ever ! If it’s measured with the values and tools of the conventional school system ...
Experience learning is a mashup of classic concepts and contemporary movements, all inspired by the post-digital generation.
Our 4 pillars : Pleasure to learning (vs. Learn to know, 1st pillar of education for the Unesco) Go and do it ! Put the ideas into practice ! Community : we see our classes as a hub to put people with contemporary mindsets, we want people to have fun Transformative experience : everything must happen as a changing experience !
Our school is 100% free and open (creative commons license)
Our 23 principales, in 4 blocks : Content methodology : the next-day factor (directly the day after having learnt,you need to put it into practice !) Form methodology : Tagline (help people synthesise, summarise everything they learnt) Emotional methodology : creative environment : it changes the way that we understand things ! Structural methodology : course frameworks
I think we should stop complain about everything and start creating !
Speaker:
Daniel Pinchbeck (Author, Author)
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We can look at the ecological crisis as an initiation for humanity as a whole, impelling us to reach a new level of consciousness as a species. This metamorphosis is also in alignment with many prophecies of indigenous people about our time. We have the opportunity to use our technologies and social technologies to bring about a conscious evolution, transitioning from competition and aggression to cooperation and symbiosis as our paradigm.
3 key insights / quotes: Ecological crisis: initiation for humanity → Impelling us to reach a new level of consciousness as a species
humanity has a need to collective power, sharing, engagement, collaboration
disaster: → media maintain the dispossession of our capacity
support organism
use the crisis as an opportunity to construct/build a new collective body of the humanity
Next: transparent infrastructure
Speaker:
Ele Jansen (Dottoressa, Learn Do Share)
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How life making connecting to androgynity How to go beyond being a provocateur
There is something very deep when you do or don’t consider your gender
Masculin is half feminin in our work life “A maybe is a opening up”
How we tell our story to other people The stories in HOlywood are climb up and sleep. “A Journey story” A story of internet is interested on what happens We have to accept that the future is more rational with our insights Accept the feminin and masculin as a whole
Speaker:
Angel Hernandez (Facilitator & Entrepreneur, Dragon Dreaming Institute)
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3 key insights / quotes: Dragon dreaming: a methodology that synergetically implements ancient wisdom with modern project development
Personal growth - > how to live my life potential
A project in Berlin -> a cocreative community (real estate) that failed
Dragon dreaming: a project which supports community and includes fully -> dragon = guardian of treasures, dreaming -> archetype
People need to feel welcoming to express themselves fully
3 principles of dragon dreaming Personal growth Create community Give back what you are taking
The process -> based on fear
recieving the world in the dreaming part
thinking globally to develop strategy
Celebration: the defining process
The dreaming circle (brainstorming) is based on co-creation and permit to develop individual …. (missing notes)
Speaker:
Jaime Arredondo (Founder, OSlantis / Open Source Circular Economy Days)
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We are bombarded with messages that we have to save the world. That climate change and inequality will tear our society apart. And it is true that we are creating waste much faster than we can treat or regenerate it.
So what options do we have to solve these problems that seem so complex to untangle?
In this talk we'll explore how the world of eco-design can have a far bigger impact in regenerating our planet and society, as well as be a strenght for businesses when combined with the open source philosophies developed in the Internet world. Watch the video
Conversations
Speakers:
Aurélie SALVAIRE (Founder, Shiftbalance) Asmaa Guedira (Connector, OuiShare - Womanity)
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Why is the Islam religion oppressive? Most countries have Islam as a political instrument, became for a patriarchy an instrument to suppress women.
Interesting contributions?
“Being feminist and religious, no matter if muslim, christian etc. is contradictory”
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Islam started with strong women: Kadija, the first muslim, faima, the fighter, aisha, the mother of all believers.
For long many men have been fighting for equal rights in the arab world
We feel strong correlation in Christian countries -> women oppression, participants were talking about that issue in Chile and Austria
We all have grown up in a sexist culture - no matter if in france or in Saudi arabia
Panels
Speakers:
Ramin Farhangi (Ecole Dynamique) Jeremy Lamri (Monkey Tie) Patrycja Slawuta (SelfHackathon)
Moderator: David Weing
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2-3 key questions:
Do you think people, in the future, still want to go the university ? or academia gonna disappear ? Do you think that we need to redefine what education means ? Education is something that you do to people, learning is something that you do with people, what do you think ?
3-5 key insights:
Jeremy : Nowadays, recruiting people based on technical skills is a very poor approach. Education and recruitment must go to the cognitive approach, a more emotional approach
Jeremy : The thing is not about what people want to do, but about what needs to be done ! Mokey Tie is only a piece of something, then you need to connect with other people. Facing today’s problems, people have to cooperate, have to be creative, and then have to develop their critical thinking (in order to select, among all the new ideas, the best ones) : all of these skills that you cannot learn at school !
P. : School was about learning how to think...but that may be what we have lost today.
Jeremy : in France, you are told about what you think. We are in an era categorized by permanent problem solving : that’s what school needs to develop into each child.
Ramin : Society is simultaneously the mother and the child of its educational system ! Our school is community-based, each person is considered as a competent contributor, from our 4 years old pupils.
Jeremy : Teachers must to be growers : they must make children grow, not know. They have to be like project managers !
Ramin : What if setting up the right context could just be enough to get people learn in the good way ? Without intentionally acting on kids ?
Jeremy : Totally. We need coordinators more than teachers.
P. : in future school we will no longer have this father-figure of the teacher. But what do we do with this free space ? Without any mentor ?
Ramin : When I got 23 and got out of school, I finally felt that I was starting to really learn things. We still have this idea that we need this preparatory time before coming to the real world! But in the real world you don’t have a room with people only aged 44, all sit in front of their table! This experience can be declared obsolete today ! What is the goal of education ? Is it to have people for the 21st century ?
P. : People get trapped in academia ! Analyzing data and writing papers are not useful skills to get hired !
Jeremy : We created a “sharing ratio” in order to measure how much each one does share, which determine the weight each one should have in the decision making process in the community.
Ramin : Make them collaborate rather than compete ! And clearly get rid of grades !
Speakers:
Felipe Anghinoni (Perestroika) Gina Rembe (Lifehack HQ/Enspiral) Stelio Verzera (Cocoon Projects)
Moderator: Ana Manzanedo (OuiShare)
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FA: Perestroika: a free, independent school: experience learning, transforming the learning process into fun activities. 20’000 people in Brazil Strong believe in paradigm Subversive approach -> self-manage yourself
GR: not contributors to the network SV: We create a back to learning based on mastery.
Tools, Methodology provided by the contributors? SV: Playing together / big co-creation, not formalized a board GR: trust is important: online collaborative platform
FA: feedback session (regularly) Define objectives A lot of happy hours! Drinks!
Is this network for everyone? GR: it is a personal peace (?) It depends on the …. (can’t read) for the system and the moment for yourself. But yes, there is an intimacy between devices and tools.
Speakers:
Benedict Dellot (The RSA) Etienne Moreau (MakerTour) Justyna Swat (POC 21)
Moderator: Vincent Guimas (Les Arts Codés)
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What is the power of thinking by making?
Making is the act resulting in something coming to be. The arts and crafts movement preceded today’s ‘maker’ culture. ‘Traditional’ forms of making were passed down from master to apprentice, through years of repetition. Today we are witnessing a growing popularity of more experimental and innovative making: less rehearsed but also less reliable(?).
In reaction to globalized mass production, throw-away cultures, consumerism and the omnipresence of chain stores, new types of community spaces like fablabs, makerspace or hackerspaces pop up in our neighborhoods.
Here we find community interaction and knowledge sharing on both local and global level, with the help of networked technologies. These social environments promote informal, peer-led shared learning often motivated by fun and self-fulfillment. People come to gain practical skills, learn how to repair, reuse, improve and tweaking designs.
The potential to enable more participatory approaches and create new pathways into important topics is clear, but this path is not for all of us.
Should we all make the shift and become makers? It may be frustrating to master a new skill in this busy world. Should we take the time to move from frustration to pleasure and start to think through materials and skills?
Workshops
Speakers:
Alison Cebulla Life coach, Alison Cebulla Josep Carrizo Digital Engineer, entuition
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The goal of the workshop: be more open and interact with people
Description of workshop format:
Find 3 things you have in common with a person that you never met Starts with agreements, Alison asked few questions as: do I agree to meet someone new? Do you agree that we will play during this session? They have done a body language game to show how to manage emotions They distributed a card game and after they have done some animal sounds closing their eyes. By doing that they have found their team mate. They have done some groups by types of animal and in each group they shared their own experience in the collaborative economy. After they spoke about their personal experience with one person and the other one just need to listen during 5 minutes and then they switch Do sentence starting by: NO...BUT/ YES...AND They end the session by doing some meditation
3-5 key learnings:
Learning about trust and the first thing to do is starting by welcoming people (they welcome each other in the room) To interact with a new person , follow its own intuition. Using “Yes...And” is a much more easy way to communicate with people than always using “No...But” To interact with people start by complimenting a person as for example: “I really love your hear, I have troubles with mines, if you have any tips I will he happy to hear them”
Interesting contributions?
sharing is about inviting we have different ways by sharing our stories knowing more is showing you are smart and make you more confortable and we should change that.
Any take-aways/next step: Follow your intuitions, interact with people with openmindness
Speakers:
Peter Just Founding partner - Innovation strategist, SharingLab Caroline De Francqueville Hansen Consultant, SharingLab
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Description of workshop format:
Started with a presentation about sharing objects and how to create them Spoke quickly about their project: OURHUB Workshop about new perspectives on sharing done in 3 steps: How would you define “Made for Sharing” objects? What could “Made For Sharing” objects be in these categories? (Play/Learn/ Live/ Work) How could we build a certification for “Made for Sharing” objects? They split in groups of 4 or 5, one person wrote while others were speaking and giving their opinions.
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Most of the today's goods are not designed to share > we need to change and built to last. How things can last? Great design: it has to be good to use and it has to last for years and no reason to break down Social Object: how to use/ create objects to bring things together? A dog is a very good example of a social object, we need to create more social objects that helps to connect people 3 goals that have to interact perfectly together to create an object: Find the right object/ At the right place/ For the “right person” Example: OURHUB is a hybrid urban furniture
Interesting contributions?
The object should be very easy to use and to share Design need to be modular, evolutive Things should be inclusive and designed for everyone with very small instruction to be very easy to use
Speakers:
Jean-Fran Noubel Human Being, Jean-François Noubel
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This workshop requires an excellent physical condition. For instance, can you run 10km or do 30 pushups in a row without much effort? Not that we will do this, but someone in a good physical shape shouldn't see these numbers as a challenge. You arrive on time. Past this time you will find closed doors you will not have the opportunity to participate You feel open to challenge yourself and question your belief system You agree to follow Jean-François Noubel’s lead during the workshop You speak English fluently so you can really understand and contribute You come with a super creative and pioneering mind
You want ecology in the world... do you have an inner ecology? You want to build new realities... can you do it with the conventional language we use today? You want social harmony... can current social codes do the job? You want a humanity in which we share (OuiShare) resources and knowledge... but you still use the scarce money and operate in the market economy, don't you? You want peace with all living beings... can you accomplish it with the food you eat? Language, social codes, food, money, economy, technology... we can call them the "We in the I", the collective that perpetuates itself through the individual self. Can we build the next society if we don't hack this social DNA that lives inside the self? Certainly not.
GO HACK YOURSELF!
This 3 hours workshop will take us in an inner challenging journey. We will explore how we can evolve the We in the I, and the impact it has in our actions and everyday life. Come for intensive body plays based on martial arts. We will deal with tough provoking questions and challenging exercises. Jean-François Noubel will drive it in a directive way, like a sports coach, therefore you must feel comfortable with this.
Speaker:
Laurence Humier Entrepreneur, designer, Laurence Humier Sally Brammall Project Director, Means of Exchange
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Monopoly®, a game born in the old capitalist era, was based on the accumulation of money and goods. Since the economy rules have changed, Laurence Humier has designed Smart Money Maker to illustrate the fundamentals of the New Economy.
Means of Exchange (a network of alternative economy practitioners) and Laurence Humier are looking for 2 to 6 players, for each of our game sessions. The rules take 5 min to learn and will be explained at the start of the session.
Speakers:
David Weingartner (Connector, OuiShare) Guilherme Lito (Myself, Brownie do Luiz)
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In an ever changing economy moving fast towards a complex digitalized world, where can we reach out for inspiration and models of resilience?
If we see earth as an organisation, we have to admit that its doing pretty damn well - running for 4,6 billion years, adapting to all kinds of disruptions, facing challenges, creating huge biodiversity and still thriving and generating abundance.
In this workshop we want to explore new business models and design systems which are inspired by the accumulated wisdom of nature in its evolutionary process of learning through failing and thriving in a complex system.
Description of workshop format:
Frontal teaching with speakers sharing their experiences
4 groups of participants on the question: “What brought you here?”
Speakers giving examples to explain Permaculture principles
Participants applying principles for their own organisations with postits to be put on the
posters that show the principles
key learnings:
• Nature works with complexity • 12 principles of permaculture • Sustainable solutions are slow and take time • Subjects (humans) and objects (the environment) are not separate • Simple changes in one’s life and daily behavioural patterns can be a rich experience for oneself and others
Interesting contributions
• We need to move beyond designing just technical systems but understand how principles from nature can be reapplied to our social context of life
Next steps:
• Incorporate the past into sustainable solutions of the future
Speakers:
Mercè Rua (Design strategiest & facilitator, Mercè Rua)
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In an ever changing economy moving fast towards a complex digitalized world, where can we reach out for inspiration and models of resilience?
If we see earth as an organisation, we have to admit that its doing pretty damn well - running for 4,6 billion years, adapting to all kinds of disruptions, facing challenges, creating huge biodiversity and still thriving and generating abundance.
In this workshop we want to explore new business models and design systems which are inspired by the accumulated wisdom of nature in its evolutionary process of learning through failing and thriving in a complex system.
Speakers:
Aurélien Marty (MédiaLabeur, Movilab)
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The Gold rush is over. What's left? The seeds we have planted: the projects, the processes and the things we have documented. Documentation has always been an important challenge for creative communities.
Let's share our methods and processes of documentation with a "Tree of Documentation"! Join our permanent 3-day workshop, to help us create one of the worlds largest libraries dedicated to free and open source documentation and read, edit, copy, add, fork, modify...
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Speakers:
Etienne Hayem (Connector, OuiShare) Joe Ross (Chief Strategy Officer, Ideas on Stage)
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Where are we today with our personal lives? What are the choices we made or didn't make to shift from the old story toward the new story? What brought clarity and well being into our daily lives? Do our personal stories make the big story shift?
Let's take a time to speak about us, about you and me, about our experiences in the daily life and how we live, feel in our personal transition in this global chaos.
Speakers:
Ariane Conrad (Owner, The Book Doula) Francesca Pick (OuiShare Fest Chair, OuiShare)
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By Loss we mean the death of a loved one: someone or something important to you.In addition to being a person who passed away, a “loved one” might have been an animal companion, a thing (like a relationship, a job, or your health), or even something that only ever existed as a dream (for example, discovering that you’re infertile when you’ve always imagined you’d birth children naturally is an example of this kind of loss.)
Grieving a major loss, and coping with normal life after a great loss, often has an isolating effect. Sometimes we have the sense that no one can share what we are feeling. Sometimes we fear that to reveal our feelings is to spread negativity and "bring other people down." Sometimes we feel that the acceptable time for grieving has passed; that experiencing grief months or years after the loss is socially unacceptable. Sometimes we feel shame about what our particular style of grief looks like. There are many reasons for isolation.
Yet increasingly we are seeing interest around reclaiming longstanding rituals or creating new community structures to help us cope with loss.
In this conversation we'll explore our experiences of isolation vs. experiences of community within the grieving process. We hope that people will leave this circle empowered to acknowledge death and loss explicitly, in many arenas of "regular life" where it is currently taboo.
Ultimately we hope that more open attitudes to grieving, loss and death in our society can lead to everyone leading a more peaceful, grounded life.
Format: The workshop was organised in a circle consisting of gathering people in a circle. Everyone was sit on pillows. This setting was made in order to be able to share talks easily.
The first 10 minutes of the session were consisting of recalling the persons we lost. The rest of the session consisting of explaining how we feel about this loss, the way it happened, the consequences it had on our life.
3-5 key learnings:
Connecting people Sharing individually memories about someone loved we loss. Each time someone wants to talk, he has to keep in his hand a small totem which allows him to start to share his memory. This totem is the symbol of the common thing we share : memories about someone we lost.
Interesting contributions came from attendees who shared their loss.
Speakers:
Malaz Safarjalani (Finance and Business Development, Jamiya) Ben Webster (Founder, Jamiya) Elsa Abi-Khalil (Entrepreneur & Community Developer MENA, MAKESENSE)
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The current refugee crisis is the largest since World War II. At that time, German and French academics established a University in Exile at the New School in New York to re-establish their research and teaching as a refugee academic network.
Now there are 100,000 Syrian students who can’t access university and 2,000 Syrian academics who have fled the country. But now have the technology to potentially create a fully functioning University in Exile. So what should one look like in the 21st century?
This ideation workshop will introduce the participants to the challenges of higher education in exile and seek to design a 21st century university in exile supported by peer-to-peer technology. What if we could use block chain for accreditation? How can MOOC technology and learnings to support continuation of learning at scale? Micro-learning to support those exiled and on the move? Open source content and materials to supplement and build new courses for those in exile in the future.
Description of workshop format: Introduction of facilitators and all participants Participants gather into groups, each group has to solve a different challenge for a new concept for an university for refugees, i.e. “sustainability & funding”, “research & development & partners”, “products”,
3-5 key learnings: Quality of content has to be assured Clearly defined outcome of what person learns Many ideas came up, have to be concreted, not enough time.
Interesting contributions:
Big companies could be interested in collaborating, giving workshops, investing funding.
Experimental university - deconstruct border between students and teachers, students teach themselves
Change of university “atmosphere” -> not competition, but collaboration
Could be great opportunity to rethink pedagogics/didactics all in all
Featured Attendees:
Anja Adler (PhD Candidate, Freelancing Writer & Facilitator, Open State Berlin) Fabien Durif (Professor, School of Management Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal) Mayo Fuster Morell (PhD, BarCola & Dimmons.net)
Facilitators:
Elena Denaro (PhD Student, LSE, OuiShare) Hugo Guyader (Doctoral Candidate, Linköping University) Pieter van de Glind (co-founder, shareNL)
Key insights / quotes:
What do you do, after a rush? You breathe. You’ll probably have a good look around you and reflect on what you were in a rush for.
Who were with you? Who are coming in now after the rush? And what natives where already at your destination?
During this years' OuiShare Fest we are able for the first time to look back thoroughly on the rush we’ve been in. We now know more about social impacts, economic impacts and knowledge on environmental impacts. Just like after the gold rush we need to get settled in a sustainable way. We need to figure out how we can use what we know already to enable a society where people rush for a different kind of gold. We need to figure out what knowledge is still lacking. We need to define what policies and types of organizations are needed for co-creating a new golden standard.
Being both a researcher and an entrepreneur I have noticed the large gap between the academic world and 'the rest' of the world. Each time I'm working with academics I notice how greatly they can benefit from gathering experiences in 'the field.' Then again, people in 'the field' are often very interested in high quality research.
The goal of this workshop, is to combine both worlds and to learn from one another, and inspire one another. We will create a joint playing ground where together we can go after the important question: What's the gold, after the gold rush?
Format
-Introduction into the subject (pains and needs regarding collaboration)
Discussion between researches/practitioners in small groups
Final review of discussion results in a big group
3-5 key learnings
We forget what we already know and not use that data properly as we are too preoccupied and focused on what we don’t know yet. There is miscommunication between two sides of the process. Researches disagree with simplification of the results of their work, practitioners get the research results with 10-20 years delay regarding the real life. The data is presented in the way that doesn’t let us apply it in a straightforward way.
Interesting contribution
Need of synchronisation, putting oneself into other side shoes
Take away
Need of discussion, reflection and creating conditions for new ways of collaboration
Speakers:
Maud Richet (Consultant & Facilitator, OuiShare - Freelance) Marie-Anne Bernasconi (Facilitator, OuiShare)
Key insights / quotes:
Workshop Format
The workshop was settled at first in a circle. It started with few minutes of relaxation (eyes closed), a way to be connected with each other.
First small exercise (15min) : A group of two persons had to share experiences about the success of cooperation in any domain in 3 following steps : one person talks 5 min, then the other one’s turn to talk 5 min and afterward they talk all together about what has been exchanged.
Another exercise (15min) : Find another peer to share with (2x2). Elaborate on the experience we shared, what were the difficulties and the facilities that allowed sharing, cooperation. Helped with the use of post-it.
Last exercice : to share in front of everybody what has been exchanged in groups.
3-5 key learnings:
The main goal was to share experiences about the success and failure of cooperation and what can we do at an individual level.
What are the keys factors that enable cooperation or not? What does it mean to change the world?
Interesting contributions?
On going communication; Developing ourselves first to be prepared to cooperate (where am I, what am I); Let go control; Don’t take assumption about what think others (let some space for frustration); Silence : Sometimes we don’t need to talk bt to be ourselves to connect; We all don’t think the same about collaboration. It is about how to find the same language. Is this transformation conscious or unconscious?
Any take-aways / next steps?:
Advice : Understanding the other. Create second environment to clean feelings instead of bringing back these feelings. (distance) Accept a person can change (evolutive behavior). Communicate and hug when we have a problem. Silence and spending time together : trying to connect in a more peaceful way. Having some care and expressing it, allowing us to care and to express it. Being ready for cooperation. Difficult in a world of uncertainty, constant changing, we feel lost.
Speaker:
Angelique Miralles (Directrice, CM Management International Ltd)
Key insights / quotes:
Description of workshop format
In circle, introducing names and how we feel
we walked slowly, then ran and told the group how we fealt
walking, each one said to the group what he was fed up with
we chose 4 things we were feeling fed up with, talked about it in small groups, then showed our feelings
lastly, in pairs, we embodies what we wer felling fed up with and physically (but gently) fought against it
3-5 key learnings:
expressing what you're fed up with with your body helps fighting against it
the strength to fight what we're fed up with is inside
expressing with words is the first step to taking action to change things
sharing with others helps
Interesting contributions?
attendees really showed their feelings which created proximity
listening to others, everyone helped each other
Speakers:
Alexis Crawshaw (PhD Student, Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara and EDESTA, Université Paris 8) Daniel Valdez (Arts & Tech Researcher, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - UNAM) Liliana Savage (Designer, National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM) Saiph Savage (Virtual Organiser of Hack & Dance, Researcher, West Virginia University)
Key insights / quotes:
We will work together to hack and create new instruments for the collaborative economy in the developing world. The instruments will be build from trash and residuals from first world countries.
This micro-hackathon designed by UNAM designer and experience curator Liliana Savage, who will create a sensorial experience that will push all participants to be creators and to think how we can innovate from the first world garbage that we dump into third world countries. While we hack away on our instruments, participants will listen and engage in discussions with our Keynote speaker Alexis Crawshaw, a composer and doctoral researcher in intersensorial composition using infrasounds.
Music and Dance Fest
We will do a music festival where we will use the instruments we build to manifest future of collaborative economy in developing world. Participants are free to dance and use their body to express themselves as well.
Our hope is that the music, dance and micro hackathon will inspire love for the developing world, and inspire participants to produce useful technology that involves more people in the collaborative economy.
Maker spaces in schools can help foster curiosity
We need more knowledge how objects behave over time, i.e. how they decay
We urgently need designs that are longer lasting
Interesting contributions
Interesting quote by Aristotle: “Why are we making things? What is the cause for the making?”
Embrace the slow making process
Next steps:
How can aging help the maturing of a design?
Spiritual traditions tell us how to rebuild things, e.g. time cycles
Finally, what can we do if we buy things as consumers?
Let us place value systems of ethics into the products we produce
As a designer think of your design as a making of political power
Dance workshop:
Use 16 beer caps, 1 feather and 1 piece of fabric to create your own traditional ornament from waste products. Perform a dance with people in Santa Barbara over Google Hangouts.
Speakers:
Hailey Cooperrider Collaboration and Strategy Lead, Collabforge
Key insights / quotes:
Telling your story is a great way to get visibility for your initiative. It’s also a great way to empower your fellow change-makers. This workshop guides participants through practical collaborative approaches to telling your story, and then extracting the reusable lessons learned, frameworks and tools that are beneficial to others.
You’ll work with your fellow participants to:
Practice telling your individual change story
Identify and package up the reusable patterns, learnings, frameworks in your stories
We’ll close with a conversation how we might build a global network of connected stories and codified knowledge about how to collaborate better for change. Participants are invited to continue this conversation after the session, over dinner.
The goal of the workshop: To guide participants through practical collaborative approaches to telling a personal story, and then extract the reusable lessons learned, and the frameworks and tools that might be beneficial to others.
Description of workshop format:
Participants were given A4 sheets with four columns (Past… Then… Now… So that…) and were told to go away for five minutes in groups of four to each write a personal story, using those headings, about a time when they had tried to engender change. Each participant was then told to recount his/her story to the rest of the group. The wider group was then asked for reflections on the process so far.
Next came “the hard part”: building a story using Lego. Groups were told to pick one story – the one with the most learning potential – and to enhance it. They were given five minutes to think about the subjects and objects in the story – without touching the Lego – and then 10 minutes to build their stories using the Lego.
The groups were then asked to reflect on the experience for three minutes. What did the process of using the Lego do for the telling of the story? What was their experience of collaboration? What roles did they play?
The groups were then told to give their stories a name and to put the Lego representations of their stories on a main table around which everyone gathered in a semi-circle. People were then asked if they had any reflections on the process.
Hailey then presented her Epic Collaboration website which includes a library of story-based patterns and other resources eg organisations and individuals that/who have told their stories.
Someone from each group then told the story of their story-building experience. The aim was to find patterns among the five stories and the building process e.g. moving from isolation to cooperation,taking action, one person inspiring others, state of mind & change of mind, domino effect, space for change, interactions going from few to many, creating trust.
Then came the REALLY hard part – building Lego representations of the patterns in eight minutes! This was no longer a group or individual task – it was self-organised.
Key learnings (3-5):
Working others to combine stories can force you to re-evaluate your own story.
Combining stories can be a great way to collaborate, but you have to watch out for stereotypical behaviour e.g. leaders leading or engineers building in a corner on their own!
Going through the process makes the final result resonate more than a piece of paper with words on it.
**Interesting contributions by attendees:
“Oh, look, a Lego window – we can use it to talk about windows of hope!”
“We succeeded in combining our four stories into one!” “That’s collaboration!”
Takeaways / next steps:
“You could open source this workshop by putting video instructions on how to do on the internet.”
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