The Open Workshop
on Living in a Changing World
This notional workshop is intended as a counterpoint to the “extreme deep dive” on infrastructure theory which I have been considering putting on in Cloughjordan. The idea is to do a one week residential intensive equipping people to handle the big issues of the day.
In this alternate version of the workshop we’d do a much more broad-based course, with eight teachers taking a half-day each, attempting to cover much more of the situation.
If you’re interested, please describe what you would teach. Link to a page we can read more about you and your work. If you’re interested in taking the course if it happens, please add your contact info and we will be in touch when this moves forward.
Vinay Gupta - infrastructure theory and collapse, global poverty etc. Resilience training.
??Dougald Hine?? - collapsonomics, Dark Mountain, social history (Ivan Illich etc)
??James Hester?? - what we can learn from European history about low energy life
Martyn Clark - existential aspects of being human in high-pressure, uncertain contexts: emotional resilience, fearlessness, learning to be, together.
Bob Waldrop -- creation/growing local food structures, adapting existing housing for collapse/peak energy realities, cooperatives as a post-collapse business structure, mutual aid in a crisis. see also http://www.bobwaldrop.net, http://www.bettertimesinfo.org/2004index.htm, http://www.oklahomafood.coop, http://www.okie.coop
Alex Fradera -- Facing the fear of the unknown, navigating cognitive and emotional biases, individual differences and their impact on group living, how memory for time and space affect identity.
@nickstew_art / stew.artt@btinternet.com Two things: 1 - the possibility of a session on “lifelike art”, Allan Kaprow, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow - specifically conceived for those who don’t see themselves as artists. 2 - To perform the role of documentarist for the whole workshop - to make a comprehensive recording/edit of the event.
AM - Deep introductions from the team and the attendees, really get to know people.
(I love supporting beginnings & creating safe spaces within which we can all be free to be challenged - Martyn ) (ditto - Alex)
PM - ??Dougald Hine?? - On the inevitability of cultural change, and what we have to learn from the past.
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AM - Vinay Gupta - Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, Poverty and Global Dynamics
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AM - ??Bruce Darrell?? - The Food System
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PM - Closing circle and time to reflect on future next steps.
Give us your email address or twitter handle and we’ll be in touch.
@leashless / hexayurt@gmail.com
@martynclark / martynclark@me.com
@eldang / eldang@gmail.com - relatively doubtful because it’s a long way from where I live [assuming Cloughjordan is the venue, which makes sense except for my selfish interests], but very interested.
@jeffreynewman / jeffrey@jnewman.org.uk (How does eldang know where it will be?) What can I teach? Listening? and acting? How to use pain creatively via Hannah Arendt, Eugene Heimler who lived through the abyss: we each have our own holocaust?
@dvdmckay / dvdmckay@yahoo.co.uk - might be a bit far to come, but if I have a free week when it happens I’d be keen. Can only really share slightly off-topic skills (e.g. bushcraft & Aikido), so mainly interested as a student.
@alexfradera alex.fradera@gmail.com
cantril@gmail.com - Taylor Cantril. It’s a huge stretch because I work in the Office for Sustainability at DePauw University in rural Indiana. I’d love to attend as a student if I could make it happen money-wise. I’ve been thinking about these types of courses, and I may try to start dialogue about campus/university resilience courses at the next AASHE conference. (Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education is a US organization exploding with members). Keep me in loop.