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Inventer et imaginer de nouveaux mondes

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Inventer et imaginer de nouveaux mondes

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Explorer et développer de nouveaux mondes

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Simuler et réaliser de nouveaux mondes

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Retourner au et transformer le présent

 

 

P(erson) 2 P(erson) ethnography

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Participants
Minimum 4
Space
A place that can accommodate several groups and circles indoor or outdoor.
Roles
Someone to explain the protocol.
Material
Pen and paper for everyone to jot down titles and notes. Also some larger sheets (A3) for collective notes.
Preparation
Identify a topic or a theme that you would like to explore deeply.
Duration
Depends on the size of the group. Can easily take 2 hours.
Repetitive question

Use

This activity is prodigious for initiating knowledge, empirical knowledge from deep personal experiences. It also helps a group to know itself better. It is an experience of listening, memory and empathy that is generally appreciated. It also helps to reveal multiple facets of a subject.

Protocol

Step 0

Chose a topic, a notion or a theme that is of conern to the whole group, or that belongs to the context you gather for.

Step 1

Each participant gets 5 minutes to think of an anecdote in which they realised something new, had an 'ah-ha moment' or even felt that something changed their life in relation to the topic of concern.

Step 2

Pair up.

Each person in the pair has 10 minutes to tell their story, with as much details and as clearly as possible. The other person does not interrupt, can dig deeper with clarification questions or support and takes notes if necessary (this is often more practical).

Step 3

Each listener gives a title to the story they just heard.

Step 4

Gather in groups of 8 or 10. Pairs stay together in the same group. Each person around the circle announces the title of the story that was passed on to them and tells the story. They do their best to respect the nuances of the story.

It may be possible to extract the key words, titles and some formulas that stand out for each person. Note them on a large sheet of paper A3 shared by the circle.

Testimonies

A violent crisis broke out in our group of experimental futurists after a ferry crossing of the Baltic Sea. Adva sensed that we didn't know each other very well and that we had never taken the time to talk about our personal experiences of time: how we perceive it, suspend it, stretch it. We all told stories. Stories of life, death, relationships and landscapes. We enhanced our understanding of time just by opening our ears to resounding individual adventures. During and because of this exercise, my perception of one person in the group was definitely transformed. At once.

Anna Cz.

Credits

P(erson) 2 P(erson) ethnography was transmitted to Adva Z. in School Of Love by Elli Vassalou. Adva modified it a little and shared it with Anna and other members of the Futurology of Cooperation team during their residency for the Homo Novus Festival in Jurmala, Latvia, 2021.

Adva Z. wrote this recipe.

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