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====== Lego Workshop October 2011 Summary ====== | ====== Lego Workshop October 2011 Summary ====== | ||
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=== The speculative fairy land === | === The speculative fairy land === | ||
From afar, FoAM is floating, or levitating - a shimmering octopus-like castle in the sky with baroque appendages, a fortune-telling tower, bridges into vastness (and into nowhere) and ladders pointing to the sky. It is a structure made of portals, gateways, windows into unidentified areas. Inside, there are hidden treasures, an array of weird, pretty things in a beautiful space. People (and other hybrid beings) are telling stories amidst scattered arcane technologies and a jungle of fantastic plants. The whole is powered by a precious knowledge-engine, | From afar, FoAM is floating, or levitating - a shimmering octopus-like castle in the sky with baroque appendages, a fortune-telling tower, bridges into vastness (and into nowhere) and ladders pointing to the sky. It is a structure made of portals, gateways, windows into unidentified areas. Inside, there are hidden treasures, an array of weird, pretty things in a beautiful space. People (and other hybrid beings) are telling stories amidst scattered arcane technologies and a jungle of fantastic plants. The whole is powered by a precious knowledge-engine, | ||
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=== Domain of the Bridge People === | === Domain of the Bridge People === | ||
- | We can see much diversity, and through diversity - resilience. Although the individual components are fragile, the whole is adaptive and flexible. | + | We can see much diversity, and through diversity - resilience. Although the individual components are fragile, the whole is adaptive and flexible. It is an entity able to face chaos and unpredictability - it is resilient (as a camel), through its ability to live in both abundance and scarcity. Its diversity offers multiple perspectives and ways in and out - which is confusing, as it keeps changing, moving, slipping away. It is always in progress, an ongoing construction between here, there and the unknown. It exists in different parts of the world, as a mobile safe space, a refreshing alternative able to deal with increasing complexity. The people in FoAM are themselves embodiments of bridges - between disciplines, |
=== A Brewery for human transformation === | === A Brewery for human transformation === | ||
- | Bustling, buzzing, moving in and out - this is a hive of people on the move. People of all colours, ages and disciplines. They do many different things - from cooking to studying, child-rearing to tinkering. It is a place that is bigger inside than outside (the Tardis?). It is a space protected by a semipermeable shield. To get in, one must pass through a tiny door that is never fully open nor fully closed, through a riddle or an initiation ritual. It requires | + | Bustling, buzzing, moving in and out - this is a hive of people on the move. People of all colours, ages and disciplines. They do many different things - from cooking to studying, child-rearing to tinkering. It is a place that is bigger inside than outside (the Tardis?). It is a space protected by a semipermeable shield. To get in, one must pass through a tiny door that is never fully open nor fully closed, through a riddle or an initiation ritual. It requires |
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==== Where are we going? ==== | ==== Where are we going? ==== | ||
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=== Reconnecting with the Earth === | === Reconnecting with the Earth === | ||
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=== Coming to our senses === | === Coming to our senses === | ||
- | We want to move towards greater awareness, that reaches underneath and beyond thought. Awareness with a source of wisdom in all the senses. There is much observing, listening, receiving of signals from near and far. In order for the senses to become more sensitive, there is an intense silence. And within this silence, the energy of meditation and contemplation. When the signals come pouring in - from the human world, plants, nature, the universe, other dimensions - they are allowed to pass through open channels, then fed through to the specially built translators. Some things are mindfully ignored, others used and transformed, | + | We want to move towards greater awareness that reaches underneath and beyond thought. Awareness with the source of wisdom in all the senses. There is much observing, listening, receiving of signals from near and far. In order for the senses to become more sensitive, there is an intense silence. And within this silence, the energy of meditation and contemplation. When the signals come pouring in - from the human world, plants, nature, the universe, other dimensions - they are allowed to pass through open channels, then fed through to specially-built translators. Some things are mindfully ignored, others used and transformed, |
=== Deep down where technology equals magic === | === Deep down where technology equals magic === | ||
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=== Walking backwards into the future === | === Walking backwards into the future === | ||
- | This is a path of fortunetellers and futurists, aware that to see the future one must know the past and be alert and awake in the present. They cultivate behaviours that can help them survive in any future, but they also dare invoking futures they'd like to live in. They are in-tune with the present, while not necessarily accepting it. They are knights fighting apathy and paralysis, fragmentation and segregation, | + | This is a path of fortunetellers and futurists, aware that to see the future one must know the past and be alert and awake in the present. They cultivate behaviours that can help them survive in any future, but they also dare invoking futures they'd like to live in. They are in tune with the present, while not necessarily accepting it. They are knights fighting apathy and paralysis, fragmentation and segregation, |
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==== How do we get there? ==== | ==== How do we get there? ==== | ||
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=== Close the loop === | === Close the loop === | ||
- | The more you become involved, the more exhausted you get. There is an energetic loop in this system that is not closed, draining energy away. There is a sense of endless work and no satisfaction. There is external pressure | + | The more you become involved, the more exhausted you get. There is an energetic loop in this system that is not closed, draining energy away. There is a sense of endless work and no satisfaction. There is external pressure to form a clear structure - preferably a hierarchy with a figurehead |
=== Absorb and diversify === | === Absorb and diversify === | ||
- | There is some ballast that drags behind, not allowing FoAM to fly - wreckages of old projects, collaborations gone sour, too heavy funding commitments, | + | There is some ballast that drags behind, not allowing FoAM to fly - wreckages of old projects, collaborations gone sour, too-heavy funding commitments, |
=== From complicated opaqueness to complex translucency === | === From complicated opaqueness to complex translucency === | ||
- | What is FoAM? Many people heard about it, but don't really know what it is. Even people who consider themselves a part of FoAM avoid answering this question if at all possible. FoAM has become as complicated as possible, so that as a whole became tricky to understand - therefore perceived as something inaccessible, | + | What is FoAM? Many people heard about it, but don't really know what it is. Even people who consider themselves a part of FoAM avoid answering this question if at all possible. FoAM has become as complicated as possible, so that as a whole became tricky to understand - therefore perceived as something inaccessible, |
=== Towards increased resilience on local and global levels === | === Towards increased resilience on local and global levels === | ||
FoAM keeps going through difficult times. However, what collapses is immediately rebuilt into something new and improved. This becomes a patchwork of helpful yet uncoordinated activities, that are very difficult to maintain - requiring esoteric skills that only a few people possess. It is fragile and out of balance, due to its complexity built on a too small base. At the same time, it has proven its resilience to overcome obstacles and fight external enemies. If somewhat scaled down and contained (by collective prioritising among other things), it could become more coherent, stronger, dynamic, innovative and useful to itself and others. | FoAM keeps going through difficult times. However, what collapses is immediately rebuilt into something new and improved. This becomes a patchwork of helpful yet uncoordinated activities, that are very difficult to maintain - requiring esoteric skills that only a few people possess. It is fragile and out of balance, due to its complexity built on a too small base. At the same time, it has proven its resilience to overcome obstacles and fight external enemies. If somewhat scaled down and contained (by collective prioritising among other things), it could become more coherent, stronger, dynamic, innovative and useful to itself and others. |