OPEN – FORUM

Side events:





Please see also:

past-events



In November 2008 we did at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation a side-event within the procedere network, presenting Magic Round-Tables as a “method”. This lead to some interesting and deep responses and an update of the Backgroundpaper of the Open-Forum – please see: http://www.open-forum.de/events/RunderTisch-procedere-2008/

the description of the side-event: http://open-forum.de/events/storytelling-open-forum-rundgespraeche-procedere-FES-2008.html

and this discussion WIKI: http://roundtables.wikispaces.com/storytelling-roundtable-procedere

This background article - still in DRAFT form - was updated after the I3 planning for the Future Cities network, http://open-forum.de/rundgespraech.html

and as a result of our StoryTelling exercise at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and later at the TU-Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, in a workshop on the potentials and factors deciding about the success of participation events like Round-tables and Agoras: See update Backgroundpaper 1: http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Background_paper_1.html

Sorry, available at the moment only in German:

this synopsis article: http://benking.de/dialog/dialogues-conversations/ is broader in regard to Dialog and Conversations and Deliberation Participation methods but not focussed on self-organisagtion versus frames and boundary conditions.



For March 2009 !!

We are in the process of organising a special side event for the UNESCO – ESD Decade 5 years mid-term international confererence. Again like last year with the Anna-Lindh-Foundation, see 1001 actions below.

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June 2008:

On the way to:

May 15-22, 2008 in Berlin, Bonn, Weimar and elsewhere… creating

And continuing the challenge to bridge the issues of cultural diversity and Earth diversities.. planned end ending the campaign June12, 2008.

Please also see the 100 001 BLOG: http://symposion.wetpaint.com/ and the 1001 actions node: http://www.1001actions.org/en/node/1277


There is a needed to „speak out of the box“, subsume and beside the official programme and learn about “other” or new ideas, or to co-create with people you would normally meet, but share the broader commons of all living things and their survival.


A SIDE – EVENT is something which takes typically place “besides” – at a reception or later I the bar, or it might be a coalition building event of some civil society organizartion doing their extra thing to reach the public, the main panel, or possible supporters. It is done to augment and help the fabric of small or large gatherings, and can be very social and effective, bringing together the hands and the heards and the minds of the participants, who too often have to time to learn who is also at a conference, ora re too busy listening and preparing for talks and setting agendas

This May something special is planned for a series of international, mobilization side-events on the occasion of various international, european, and regional “occasions” – we are planning to have on site events at the UN CBD-COP 9 but also virtual events, virtual exchanges with stakeholders and risktakers. Beside the magic round tables during the COP-9 we will hold talking community sessions and maybe an open-space online. Come back later ! (version: April 21, 9:00


Please see this side-event for May 2008:

A side event like we typically for UN events like the CSD side events called symposion – A Meeting in Times of Crisis (VISIT US HERE !!),

this time on an another very broad and ambitions theme:


10 - 100 - 1001 or ?

HOWEVER: Mind it & Map it, Share & Expand it !

(come join us here in May in Berlin, Bonn, Weimar and elsewhere)…


And the present present Evening Agora at the OAC in Crete:

see: EcoTHEE 2008 or this anouncement:



See outcomes here at the OAC Agora and maybe also: OPEN-FORUM


Maybe also see: Negotiating and Exploring Realities (Cosmologies)


PAST SIDE EVENT EXAMPLES ?

Please check from a selection/collection of earlier events:


Large international gatherings: (typically 1-5 weeks)


Conferences with a side programme (more than a reception or ice-breaker party:

see: how-to and discussion paper for OPEN FORMAT event design (typically 1 week)



Other:



Please find here the links – we are presently bringing together for this page:

http://open-forum.de/re-invent-democracy.html

http://open-forum.de/open-space-open-forum.html

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For more on Dialog see this “background” material collection: (all highly recommended)

http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Background_paper_3.htm

http://open-forum.de/agora-fuschl-lenser-benking.htm

http://www.newciv.org/cob/members/benking/voicetxt.html

http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/links/webdial.php

and list of reference articles: http://open-forum.de and http://benking.de/dialog

or see a colelction of links towards the „roots“ of true dialogue: http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/links/webdial.php

or read/download this primer: The Dialog Kit: Structured Processses for Generative Dialogue: http://www.auroranow.org/resource/Kit1.pdf

or these introduction articles to dialogues and conversations or a dialogue & decision culture:

http://open-forum.de/Dialogue_and_DecisionCulture.html

http://benking.de/dialog/dialogues-conversations/

http://benking.de/dialog/dialog-among-civilizations.htm



Please not that our Open-Forum exercises are done in close co-opeation with IHTEC’s International School Peace Gardens, an environmental education plattform. http://ihtec.org (IHTEC has general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations - UN–ECOSOC, and PNW Positive-Nettworks, Berlin Hannover, http://p-n-w.net - PNW maintains a special “SALON” section as part of a range of activities to support the arts, cultures, education, youth, creativity,… but also policicy making and governance:

Please go at the PNW site to Magic Round Tables (Rundgespräche) or salon, also Positive News Youth Views www.pnyv.org, an E-zine and other media and events for Youth and others: http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/open-forum/rundetische.html http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/fairglobalcitizenship/ http://www.worldfutureschool.org/index.php?id=490 http://pnyv.org