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| The festival format loosely followed a rapid fire or Russian roulette setup wherein a volley of short events would act as diverse triggers for thinking, each event lasting not much over an hour, after which participants could be pinballed in another direction, and with enough surrounding space for striking up conversations. A scattershot approach, opening on the first evening with a [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-gala-dinner-the-shares-a-meal-hosted-by-the-viriconium-palace,10229|Gala Dinner]] in a mansion, with 3.5 minute dinner speeches to cast the terrain of what might be considered the subject matter of administration wide (in the business school, trade and logistics, monetary experiments, hitchhiking, heritage, plumbing and radical art history). | The festival format loosely followed a rapid fire or Russian roulette setup wherein a volley of short events would act as diverse triggers for thinking, each event lasting not much over an hour, after which participants could be pinballed in another direction, and with enough surrounding space for striking up conversations. A scattershot approach, opening on the first evening with a [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-gala-dinner-the-shares-a-meal-hosted-by-the-viriconium-palace,10229|Gala Dinner]] in a mansion, with 3.5 minute dinner speeches to cast the terrain of what might be considered the subject matter of administration wide (in the business school, trade and logistics, monetary experiments, hitchhiking, heritage, plumbing and radical art history). |
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| Day Two was designed as a more [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-convention,10584|conventional series of workshops]], followed by an [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-office-party,10585/|office party]] at the Cube; with Day Three opening out into delegate-generated content with the [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-professional-development-bonanza,10586|Professional Development Bonanza], radio show, raffle and Trade Show at the Cube, and [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-100-ushers-feature-film-tbc,10587/|staff training session]] before closing with the reassuringly familiar format of a feature film. | Day Two was designed as a more [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-convention,10584|conventional series of workshops]], followed by an [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-office-party,10585/|office party]] at the Cube; with Day Three opening out into delegate-generated content with the [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-professional-development-bonanza,10586|Professional Development Bonanza]], radio show, raffle and Trade Show at the Cube, and [[https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/radmin-100-ushers-feature-film-tbc,10587|staff training session]] before closing with the reassuringly familiar format of a feature film. |
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| Participation | Participation |
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| II | II |
| As a whole, the festival performed a demonstration of a wealth of resources which ran counter to a litany of scarcity that surged through many of the conversations. Quite literally: a feast, various repositories of cash, a mansion, the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. I would also observe that life rather than money loomed over the event as the scarce resource. A number of largely health-related shocks meant a swathe of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two vivid days of sunshine set the scene well beyond our ability to stage-manage. | As a whole, the festival performed a demonstration of a wealth of resources which ran counter to a litany of scarcity that surged through many of the conversations. Quite literally a feast, several repositories of cash, a [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_ashton_court.jpg|mansion]], the richness of innumerable projects and lives' works. I would observe that life rather than money loomed over the event, as the scarce resource. A number of largely health-related shocks meant a swathe of last minute cancellations as delegates were felled by illness, family and a sobering shadow of bereavements. Conversely, two vivid days of [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_convention_lunch.jpg|sunshine]] set the scene well beyond our ability to stage-manage. |
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| III | III |
| IV | IV |
| The Business Experiment Raffle | The Business Experiment Raffle |
| The other money game was the raffle. Announced at the gala dinner, a [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_33.jpg|raffle]] with one ticket available to each RADMIN delegation. Entry was gated by requirement to be present at the draw and deliver a proposal for a business experiment, the £2,500 prize [[[[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_Raffle_winning_ticket_39.jpg|issued]] with no strings attached. The format of a pitch with the ambiguity of no reporting/accounting conditions for the winner, and a random draw. | The other money game was the raffle. Announced at the gala dinner, a [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_33.jpg|raffle]] with one ticket available to each RADMIN delegation. Entry was gated by requirement to be present at the draw and deliver a proposal for a business experiment, the £2,500 prize [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_Raffle_winning_ticket_39.jpg|issued]] with no strings attached. The format of a pitch with the ambiguity of no reporting/accounting conditions for the winner, and a random draw. |
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| Logistics | Logistics |
| Questions of //how to be handbuilt and powerful// were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_READER_FINAL.pdf|RADMIN reader]], a zine-like collection of short texts and a DIY endeavour by design. Graphics students from the University were happy to contribute design and layout as part of their professional practice module. However when it came to print, fold and staple, not passing the 70-unit job over to University Print Services (a design decision, not budget-driven) caused an operating logjam played out in the art department printer queue, where I spent almost two entire days negotiating with (supportive) IT support technicians, network log-in protocols, office supply enclaves, line-management protocols, institutional hierarchies, beneficial staplers and the whole situated process of production which was really the entire point. | Questions of //how to be handbuilt and powerful// were vividly rendered in the sub-project of the [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/RADMIN_READER_FINAL.pdf|RADMIN reader]], a zine-like collection of short texts and a DIY endeavour by design. Graphics students from the University were happy to contribute design and layout as part of their professional practice module. However when it came to print, fold and staple, not passing the 70-unit job over to University Print Services (a design decision, not budget-driven) caused an operating logjam played out in the art department printer queue, where I spent almost two entire days negotiating with (supportive) IT support technicians, network log-in protocols, office supply enclaves, line-management protocols, institutional hierarchies, beneficial staplers and the whole situated process of production which was really the entire point. |
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| Delegations | //Delegations// |
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| Large-print [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/2019/02/18/radmin-2019-documentation/nggallery/thumbnails/page/6|lanyards]] made organisational entities vivid to each other across a crowded room. Attending as organisational entities had the effect that afterwards people were referring to each other as TOFU or PlumbMaid, rather than catching names. The programme was the treasure. | Large-print [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/2019/02/18/radmin-2019-documentation/nggallery/thumbnails/page/6|lanyards]] made organisational entities vivid to each other across a crowded room. Attending as organisational entities had the effect that afterwards people were referring to each other as TOFU or [[https://feraltrade.org/radmin/radmin_plumbmaid.jpg|PlumbMaid]], rather than catching names. Assembled together in the [[https://blog.cubecinema.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/nggallery/radmin-2019-1/RADMIN_9.jpg|programme]] this was the main treasure. |
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| What was learnt | //What was learnt// |
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| From the hindsight of the day-after debrief breakfast the following points came into focus. | From the hindsight of the day-after debrief breakfast the following points came into focus. |
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| Converging desires, how to still speak to the street, bring in business, not alienate those already 20 years in to the the process and still keep the peripheries open. | Converging desires, how to still speak to the street, bring in business, not alienate those already 20 years in to the the process and still keep the peripheries open. |
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| And a challenge to be less white. | |
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| How to engage (or not) with lines of conversation that circled back to 'privilege', 'struggle', ' exploitation', 'clique', body, money and politics. | How to engage (or not) with lines of conversation that circled back to 'privilege', 'struggle', ' exploitation', 'clique', body, money and politics. |
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| How the psychological/ spiritual level for many tripped up politics. Irritation with the body level - what does that tell us? | How the psychological/ spiritual level may trip up politics (and aesthetics). |
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| The omission to emphasise to all (not just to speakers and workshop hosts) that the programme constituted actual research, not content delivery for an audience. So the process is contributory and where it doesn't work is the engaging space for learning. | The importance that the programme constituted actual research, not content delivery for an audience. So the process is contributory and where it doesn't work is the engaging space for learning. |
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| Next steps | //Next steps// |
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| Primary that the workshops were too short, the frameworks were just being played with. | A switch from a network/spectacle phase to deeper workgroups for day long investigations. |
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| This calls for a switch from a network/spectacle phase to deeper workgroups, day long investigation | a) Legal |
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| The valuable interdisciplinarity here is in bringing these enquiries into the same hosting space / the same page / into physical/social relationship with each other by hosting the interfaces between them. Time and other resources for breaking down frameworks. | c) Vegetal |
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| a) Legal (teresa's crew + other radical lawyers) | e) Enterprise imaging |
| b) Administrative (angela/CUPS. university and institutional administrators) | f) Creative accounting (not present at RADMIN, but critical) |
| c) Vegetal organisation (ingrid / foAM) | g) Activities for translating administrative thinking into other realms |
| d) Pscyhological level (peer coaching training / network) | h) Artist and tradesperson |
| e) Representational angle (ellen's enterprise imaging, could be explored much further as a group) | i) And critically the role of artist/practitioner in all this. How to both be resourced and have agency, which brings the scarcity and abundance questions together. |
| f) Creative accounting (not present at RADMIN, but critical. need to find someone to lad it) | |
| g) Physicalising admin (intimacy encryption / heath, administrative postures / guy. translating administrative thinking into other realms) | |
| h) Artist and tradesperson (Sovay/ Plumbmaid) | |
| i) perhaps closely related with h), the role of artist/practitioner in all this. how to i) be resourced and ii) have agency. bringing together scarcity and abundance. the incidental person may or may not be a role model - despite clumsy IU workshop there is still something super interesting there. Practitioners and interdisciplinarity. | |
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| An immediate task to organise around, the post-RADMIN reader | An immediate task to organise around, the post-RADMIN reader |
| An annual retreat | An annual retreat |
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| An annual counter-capital raffle | An annual counter-capital raffle! |
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| keeping open at the edges. the more surface area in the edges, the more can go on. | |
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| Something compelling to articulate in the inversion between handing personhood to a river - a better than nothing anthropomorphising - and the reverse, that a stone can be a business doesn't comercialise a stone, but stonifies commerce. Work for Ibex. | |
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