===== Luminous Green 2010 Harvest: What could a resilient luminous green worlds be like? ===== ==== From the dialogues on personal resilience... ==== * small examples create big change * openness to accept difficult factors that will allow you to change * crisis helps us to change * transferability of skills * resilience in the face of death: acceptance of death helps us overcome it * letting go * radical curiosity * sometimes we need to leave a system, for it to change * goal->obstacle often leads to better things * sometimes change is painful ==== Juicy questions, between luminosity & resilience... ==== * How do we give up being what we are to continue being? * How can we live in the present culture differently? * Can you hold / be with uncertainty? * How could we ask the right questions (toolkits, models of resilience, learning from others)? * What can we learn across fields (with regards to resilient systems)? * How do we create an explosion of multiple tactics, approaches etc. to get to a resilient Luminous Green - that can multiply forever (e.g. 100 000 years), but that can also change? * How does resilience change practices, design & communication of our ideas, objects & obstacles? * How do we find ways to experience the fragility, rigidity and stretch of ecosystems? * How do we create healthy, resilient, luminous green evolving rituals that encourage us to take responsibility for our own actions? * Pruning: should we - and if so, how do we decide when to remove a branch - is it dead, can it sprout elsewhere? * Why are the Beatles and Elvis fragile, but David Bowie and Trent Reznor resilient? * Where is the home-brew resilience club? * Where is the money (qui boon)? * Let's develop a handbook of resilient frameworks (core identity, ethics, diversity & nutrition, neuroscience…)! * Who are resilience experts? * What kind of ethics do we use to select appropriate resilient systems? * What can we learn about resilience from examining feminine & masculine values / matriarchal & patriarchal societies? * How do we nourish an ecology of resilient systems? -- ==== Open Spaces, diverging & converging ==== Ordered in the Order of Civilisation (from the Long Now): Fast Layers innovate, slow layers stabilise, the whole combines learning with continuity. === 1 - NATURE === == Space Ecologies == host: Angelo * participants: Nik, Hendrik, Blaine, Vinay Discussed: * Red Mars Trilogy * Buckminster Fuller as reincarnation of a space squid * Space porn to fund space exploration (XXX Prize) * Closed ecosystem: * incentives, * avoid STalinism, * Project at the same time * closed system is not necessarily the best * how to build a system that opens and closes as required? === 2 - CULTURE === == Rituals and Evolving Traditions == Host: Pippa * participants: Sara, Maja, Trudo, Androne, Dougald, Rasa, Bartaku, Thomas, Loes Discussed: * Pruning & Death: architecture of cemeteries, organic graveyard (birds, bees sanctuary), thinks outside of G4, "leaving" society * Rituals of serendipity: Dice Rolling (in organisations every morning: 1,1=cleaning; 6,6=group excursion), trust, deliberate inefficiency, ability to choose * Travel (Hakim Bey - aimless wandering) thanking, washing, swimming, arrival and departure (on airports, thanking the security guards for patting you down), sitting * Work: Quotes, Play, "how are you", Money, Mondays * Food: sharing, seasons [[ritualnotes | Further Notes]] ---- == BEING - How to Deal with an Identity Crisis and Become Luminous == host: Mahmood * participants: Thomas, Sara Discussed: * Is doing thinking? * How important is experience to reach treater understanding? * When or what is the present and how can we live in the now? ---- == Poetry of Witness - Against Forgetting (Carolyn Forche) == host: Maureen * participants: Thomas, Cocky, Theun, Angelo Discussed: Poetry as witness to a "third space" between personal and political - the social unique observations/abilities. Resisting erasure of certain experiences on the junction of personal/political recognising observation itself as an event, by objectifying it. At the same time having space and capacity to embrace contradiction, otherness, ugliness, trauma, diversity, RESILIENCE ---- == Grassroots Education == host: Pippa * participants: Maureen, Pieter Discussed: Critical Aspects of Success * Challenges of open learning - * enthusiasm of students in open courses * cultural dimensions * physical space (+cost to cross it) * quality: new ways to ensure and evaluate it * US university models (social capital) * Breaking dichotomies of teacher/student - expert/novice - empowerment * Teaching to learn IS learning to teach * teaching to learn: responsibility to participate, e.g. documentation, proposing lessons, anarchic structure, skills vs titles gained * learning to teach: writing skills for new contexts, knowledge work, technical skillsharing, dynamic style, taking an authoritative role === 3 - GOVERNANCE === == System Maps == host: Vinay * participants: Hendrik, Nik, Pippa, Androne, Blaine, Maureen, Angelo Discussed: * Simple critical infrastructure maps, nation states vs international organisations === 4 - INFRASTRUCTURE === == Urban Plantations == * participants: Cocky, Theun, Lina, Rasa, Trudo, Loes, Bart, Christina, Wietske, Johan, Anna-Maria, Nenad Discussed: * Mapping the existing potentials * Mapping the existing edible sites * apply them to build infrastructures * Bait elements as propagators for seeding (like pigeons except they don't fly) ---- == A Luminous Green Village == host: Vinay * participants: Simone, Pippa, Nik, Dougald, Mahmood, Trudo, Christina, Loes, Lina, Theun, Tapio * Who can offer what: Garden - Lina, Sauna - Tapio, Look for low cost space - Lina, Communication - Pippa, Hexayurts - Vinay, Learning from existing communities - Simone Discussed: * project (3month prototype) - 1 year - building a village of hexayurts etc.: costs 100-500 euro/person * a social experiment/art installation * a non-intentional community living together in an autonomous and interdependent way * what are the angles that make this different from existing ecovillages * need to start this in the next 6 weeks * Vinay: things and land * Nik: money * Simone, Mahmood, Dougald: people (presents who want to go to space) * Pippa: archivist * pin down in next few days if it can fit into Resilience * next meeting: 22/23 september to bring results together and write a project description [[villagenotes| session notes]] ---- == Biomimicry - what models in nature can become our teachers == hosts: Anna-Maria & Carole * participants: Angelo, Lina, Tapio, Mahmood, Theun, Johan Discussed: * Biomimicry as a driver for innovation on 2 levels * functionality of organisms, or ecosystems * behavioural, i.e.when organisms get together to perform a specific function which assists with resilience * when does a model break down - benchmark for resilience * thermite model - school in Sweden * The complexity in systems and how our perception of a system is affecting our understanding ---- == Networking for Personal Resilience == host: Dougald * participants: Vinay, Maja, Nik, Blaine, Loes, Maureen, Thomas discussed: * what grids are we depending on? * shadow institutions * funding - * agriculture funding * crowd sourcing (true fans) and social networks (e.g. HUB experience) * start-up Network - e.g. O'Reilly Community * Reducing dependency on money * social networks and exchange * trust * Chicago party crews * secret societies === 5 - COMMERCE === == How do We Build Resilient Luminous Green Online Communities? == Host: Blaine * participants: Vinay, Nik, Simone, Maureen, Angelo, Maja, Theun Discussed: * How is identity constructed (or not) on the web * How do you increase findability * How do we architect appropriate technology for valuable (and sustainable interactions on the web) === 6 - ART and FASHION === == Friction / Lubricants & TV == hosts: Tapio & Dougald * participants: Thomas, Maja, Audrone, Lina discussed: * Dark Mountain * Homegrown and imported ideas/understanding/policy * suggested: Improv - Stevie Wishart * military & future reenactment * food production - Baltics, Balkans, Grow Sheep ---- == Herb herds, bunny beans, photons & power plants == + mitochondria, neurones, synapse mediated insights, perception, power & action towards a LG-realm Host: Bart * Participants: Anna-Maria, Carole, Johan, Wietske, Sara, Pieter, Rasa, Lina, Nenad Discussed: * Kilo Jules to Micro Watts * Beetroot reality - cooling & heating data centres in cellars * leftovers can be used for natural dye sensitised solar cells * solar cells should be edible * electricity converted to kJ and feeding the body, providing nutrients & chemicals for the brain * Emotional recipes & mood enhancers - colours in hospital paint, forest floor, window cleaners as superheroes * Landboard to caviar: closed loop systems * The hose rather than the fork * Meditation - awareness of what body-mind needs ---- == Sense & Sensuality == Host: Tapio * Participants: Anna Maria, Johan, Carole, Theun, Cocky, Pieter, Christina, Lina, Wietske, Nenad Discussed: * How people shift emphasis to different sense and translate them into bio-processes that create experience, knowledge, change of perception of the everyday, enlightenment. * Qualitative differences between sensing and the sensuous. * Biosphere experience: * need for a Luminous green superhero that has different sense-powers * naturally, technically & scientifically enhanced senses * 'intelligent' materials that respond to the environment without power-supply. ---- == Three in one: Mobile, 2 feet & pocket == * Participants: Christina, Bartaku, Cocky, Theun, Rasa, Wietske, Anna Maria, Johan, Nenad, Trudo, Lina, Loes * Discussed: Walking, recognising, picking and naming wild plants. == Edible Landscape in Your Pocket == * host: Theun Discussed: * Uses of mapping edible wildlife * How to use the Boskoi app >> suggestion: in case of bad network connection, storing new additions in phone-memory. * other apps: plant determination >> almost impossible to get a final identification of plants. * data collection via mobile phone, what could that be used for? >> overlaying mappings like edibles, soil quality, strange people. * edible city issues >> soil quality, over-harvesting, mushroom are difficult.