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| === Examples from our experience === | === Examples from our experience === |
| * Migrating birds in Lithuania: a network of Lithuanian émigrés who meet once a year in a 1 week workshop, for the rest online communication and updates, using the network as a resource to find collaborators; emails are sporadic, sometimes a lot of volume for a few days, then nothing for months. It has a clear and simple purpose and doesn’t require much from its members | |
| * Farmersmanual: a pan-european disturbance collective (aka laptop band): After giving up their studio in Vienna and moving to different EU countries, they began working from people’s lounge rooms, performance venues and bars (whatever’s available). Online communication became more important. Collaboration happened based on shared interests and doing things together, primarily centred around performances and events (fixing logistics, designing performances, finding spaces to work and perform…). | |
| * FoAM already functions as a nomadic meeting place for people who aren’t core team members: drop in, stay and/or work for a while, catch up with people and move on. In our case this still needs a group of people to be more or less sedentary to have a space that others can move in and out of. Would it still work if we didn’t have the studio, nor means to house people? | |
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| Other examples: see [[:/nomadic_studios]] -> The Unknown Fields Division, Boat Magazine | Migrating birds in Lithuania: a network of Lithuanian émigrés who meet once a year in a 1-week workshop, for the rest online communication and updates, using the network as a resource to find collaborators; emails are sporadic, sometimes amn increase in volume for a few days, then nothing for months. It has a clear and simple purpose and doesn’t require much from its members |
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| | Farmersmanual: a pan-european disturbance conglomerate (aka laptop band) After giving up their studio in Vienna and moving to other European countries, they began working from lounge rooms, performance venues and/or bars (whatever’s available). Online communication became more important. Collaboration happened based around shared interests and opportunities. working together primarily centred around performances and events (fixing logistics, designing performances, finding spaces to work and perform interspersed with ecstatic tinkering). Note that collaboration reduced as members dispersed (causation? corrolation?) |
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| | (a few other listserv centric networks were mentioned. primary communication online, occasional subgroup coordination IRL) |
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| | FoAM already functions as a nomadic meeting place for people who aren’t core team members: drop in, stay and/or work for a while, catch up with people and move on. In our case this still needs a group of people to be more or less sedentary to have a space that others can move in and out of. Would it still work if we didn’t have the studio, nor means to house people? |
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| | Some other examples mentioned in [[:nomadic_studios]] include The Unknown Fields Division, Boat Magazine |
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| === What could it be like? === | === What could it be like? === |
| * **A secret society**: e.g. a "Foundation of federated futurists republics" - not the [[:/resilients/bohemian_salon]], not a collective but a group of people who share the same principles, have occasional private meetings, support each other professionally etc. | * A **Network for Speculative Culture**: A (fluid) collection of people who want to work on something together, not imposed externally with the primacy of a shared set of interests. |
| * **Interest Group**: A collection of people who want to work on something together, not imposed externally | * A **Temporary Autonomous Zone** It emerges and dissolves when needed (e.g. like a [[:TAZ]]). Periods of intensive collective work (e.g. on a ship, mountian retreat or in the wilderness) are interspersed with periods where we only meet online. The feeling in a TAZ is that nothing happens from obligation but rather from interest and connections and collaborations will naturally emerge. Most of the time people work wherever and whenever they want, with whomever makes sense, yet having periodic meeting moments and places where the benefit of a network keeps being refreshed and reaffirmed. |
| * **A Temporary Autonomous Zone** It emerges and dissolves when needed (e.g. like a [[:/TAZ]]). Periods of intensive collective work (for example on a ship or in the wilderness) are interspersed with periods where we only meet online. The feeling in a TAZ is that nothing happens from obligation but rather from interest and will for connection and collaboration. Most of the time people work wherever and whenever they want, with whomever makes sense, but having periodic meeting moments and places where the benefit of a network keeps being refreshed and reaffirmed. | * **Sedentary & Migratory nodes**: Several places around the world act as stable nodes (e.g. studios or houses run by FoAM people or others who’d welcome our temporary 'occupation’), while some members function as migratory connectors between the nodes. These people would function connective tissue between interesting people and places - think itinerant storytellers/journeyers connecting interests, places and people with each other. The itinerants adapt to local communities, absorb their stories, move on, meet other communities, share and collect stories - acting as 'pollinators' in 'open space technology' terminology. |
| * **Sedentary+Migratory nodes**: Several places around the world that have physical locations (run by FoAM people and others who’d welcome our temporary 'invasion’), while some members function as migratory connectors between the nodes. These people would function connective tissue between interesting people and places - Like itinerant storytellers/journeyers connecting interesting places and people with each other. The itinerants adapt to local communities, absorb their stories, move on, meet other communities, share and collect stories - in other words ct as 'pollinators' in 'open space technology'… | * ** Stamtisch / stamkroeg / estaminet **: Working individually or in small project-centric groups, meeting regularly but informally, perhaps keeping a quiet place where we could meet and have our library. A quiet cafe for example where we could sit and work, eat and drink, knowing that other foamies might be there as well. We could partner with a cafe who could benefit from having FoAM present and have a way to share profits (that we could invest in our yearly retreats) |
| * ** Stamtisch / stamkroeg / estaminet **: Working individually or in small project-based groups, but keeping a quiet place where we could meet and have our library. A quiet cafe for example where we could sit and work, eat and drink, knowing that other foamies might be there as well. We could partner with a cafe who could benefit from having FoAM present and have a way to share profits that we could invest in our yearly retreats | * **A secret society**: e.g. a "Foundation of Federated Futurists Republics" - as opposed to the [[:resilients/bohemian_salon]], rather than a collective, a group of people who share the same principles, have occasional private meetings, support each other professionally etc. (note: expand the diff. w. bohemian salon) |
| * FoAM network as a project itself: a project for distributed prototyping of alternate realities/worlds (including social, cultural, professional, scientific, technological (…) aspects); | * FoAM network as a project itself: a project for distributed prototyping of alternate realities/worlds (including social, cultural, professional, scientific, technological (…) aspects); |
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| === What are the benefits of a nomadic network? === | === What are the benefits of a nomadic network? === |
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| * The energy that is now spent on maintaining infrastructure would be used to maintain the network (relationships, projects, exchanges…) | * The energy that is now spent on maintaining infrastructure would be used to maintain the network (relationships, projects, exchanges…) |
| * A sense of freedom | * A sense of freedom |
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| === What would be required? === | === What would be required? === |
| * independent **means** for each member, with a shared pool of money to finance joint activities | |
| | * independent **means** for each member, with a shared pool of money to finance joint activities |
| * **clearer 'purpose'** (e.g. to know when what I’m doing is or isn’t a part of the network) | * **clearer 'purpose'** (e.g. to know when what I’m doing is or isn’t a part of the network) |
| * **online communication** and sharing would become much more important (for co-ordination, sharing and professional discussions); we would need a strong online infrastructure and commitment to using it | * **online communication** and sharing would become much more important (for co-ordination, sharing and professional discussions); we would need a strong online infrastructure and commitment to using it |
alkan