26/11/2009

CCCB Open_Sailing taller

Open_Sailing @ the Now festival, CCCB Barcelona

Open_Sailing has been invited in Barcelona by the CCCB  for a lecture (below you can see the slideshow) and for a day-long workshop, as a part of the NOW festival and Atopia
NOW is a reflection on the present based on the scientific, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations that are taking place at the start of the 21st century. It is a process of research, creation and dissemination that aims to bring together different local and international agents involved in the actions that are promoting a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalised cultures.



Lecture
The first day, Cesar Harada presented Open_Sailing on a more historical perspective, explaining how it developed and where it is going, slideshow below.





Workshop
The second day 27 person participated the Open_Sailing workshop with Cesar Harada, Ruairi Glynn, Ollie Palmer, Carla Colet Castano. It was about dance, sensible linear - branched and complex networks, mapping, tagging, geostrategy, group and decision making, adhocracy, object oriented politics, open architecture, town-planning, renewable energies, sustainable design, hedonism, fun, architecture of play.

Here is the structure of the workshop as a simpler array of instructions :

Dance
1. walk
2. run
stretch
3. walk eyes closed
4. run eyes closed
5. linear network - walk eyes closed
6. linear network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
7. branched network - walk eyes closed
8. branched network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
9. complex network - walk eyes closed
10. complex network - walk eyes closed - somebody takes the lead
11. splitting the group is sub-groups

Map
1. cover the floor with a large paper
2. draw YOUR world map


Tag
1. have 2 colours stikers : one "like" color, one "dislike" color
2. tag the map, write words on tags
3. map the whole world


Individual desire
1. think of where you personaly would prefer to live according to your map and tags


Group decision of a location
1. make a decision, as group, of one location, where you all agree to go together


Group decision of activities
1. as a group decide one activity in this new location


Individual involvment
1. as an individual, choose your activity within this group


Craft of the system
1. describe your location, group activity, personal activity, how the system would work (food, energy, political, technology ...)


Design of the system
1. optimize your system


Fabrication of models
1. as a group, fabricate the physical model of what you have been describing


Public presentation and debate
1. present your group work to other groups of works
2. compare, discuss.
3. general debate : what happened? what did you enjoy? what did you not enjoy? what did you learn? what will remain in your memory? How will this workshop affect your future life?

thanks !



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