Assembly Design / Diseño de asemblea

I'm wondering whether we should be encouraging participants to share their commitment/responsibility to engage in enquiries that are focused on improving their own practice?

Thanks @wrayirwin for providing that overview. and thanks to @karinronnerman1 for the feedback.

To reiterate the rough proposal at this time is to do the following in sequence:

MORNING TO LUNCH

1 - keynote / call to action - Santos
2 - open space style of workshop based on 12 or so topics / issues. These topics will have been set by us (the coordinating group) and will be drawn from the points put forward by Cesar, and the issues / themes emerging from the participatory workshops.
3 - is a big tent report back space needed here? (with translation?)

LUNCH TO FINISH

4 - introduction to imagining preferred futures
5 - articulating preferred vision for what it means to enact knowledge democracy and transform the topic area - based on the same topics and open space format (but perhaps people can move from morning session to a new session if they want)
6 - big tent report back (with translation)
7 - concrete projects and initiatives formulation (possibly put on loomio as proposals)

8 - time to connect on projects / initiates for planning

This is all tentative and will likely change based on our conversations. We are meeting tomorrow via Skype to deepen the design dialog. anyone who wants to be part of this conversation let me know. The time are as follows:

Melbourne, Australia Tue, 16 May 2017 at 10:00 pm AEST

Bogota, Colombia Tue, 16 May 2017 at 7:00 am COT

San Diego, USA Tue, 16 May 2017 at 5:00 am PDT

London, United Kingdom Tue, 16 May 2017 at 1:00 pm BST

Johannesburg, South Africa Tue, 16 May 2017 at 2:00 pm SAST

if you want to be part of this add me to your Skype contacts: global-eyes

thanks everyone

jose

I'm wondering if the 'call to action' should emphasise the importance of each individual taking responsibility for asking, researching and answering the kind of questions asked by Budd Hall at ARNA 2015:

"Some questions for myself
1. How do I ‘decolonize’, ‘deracialise,’ demasculanise and degender my inherited ‘intellectual spaces?’
2. How do I support the opening up of spaces for the flowering of epistemologies, ontologies, theories, methodologies, objects and questions other than those that have long been hegemonic, and that have exercised dominance over (perhaps have even suffocated) intellectual and scholarly thought and writing?
3. How do I contribute to the building of new academic cultures and, more widely, new inclusive institutional cultures that genuinely respect and appreciate difference and diversity – whether class, gender, national, linguistic, religious, sexual orientation, epistemological or methodological in nature?
4. How do I become a part of creating the new architecture of knowledge that allows co- construction of knowledge between intellectuals in academia and intellectuals located in community settings? (Hall, 2015, p.12)"

Estimados colegas, reciban un cordial saludo. Con este mensaje quería compartir algunas ideas que surgieron de la reunión con el profesor Lonnie y José Ramos a propósito del diseño metodológico de la asamblea global. En primer lugar, resulta pertinente pensar que la secretaría técnica o el grupo de memoria de este evento será muy importante en el propósito de sintetizar los aportes en los diversos niveles de la discusión tales como los retos de los contextos de los procesos de PAR, los aprendizajes en el trabajo colaborativo entre instituciones educativas y comunidades y frente a los caminos desde los cuales se puede proyectar la ruta de trabajo de las redes y la asamblea global. De hecho, estos insumos son de suma importante para consolidar el programa y principios de acción para este espacio de convergencias. En segundo lugar, sería muy interesante aprovechar este espacio de encuentro con el ánimo de construir un mapa de experiencias que nos permita ubicar afinidades con otros proyectos e instituciones en otros lugares del mundo. Frente al contexto, estas alianzas son de suma importancia para la movilización de las ideas, pero además, para el intercambio de saberes que puede resultar pertinentes en los procesos concretos de PAR. Finalmente, a partir de estos insumos y de este mapa se abre una posibilidad para reconocer de qué manera los procesos de PAR se vienen enriqueciendo a nivel teórico y metodológico, en otras palabras, de qué manera nuevas apuestas teóricas y prácticas colaborativas vienen enriqueciendo la fundamentación de la PAR. Saludos cordiales,

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Dear colleagues, best regards. With this message I want to share some ideas that emerged from the meeting with Professor Lonnie and José Ramos on the methodological design of the global assembly. First, it is pertinent to think that the technical secretariat or memory group of this event will be very important in order to synthesize the contributions at the various levels of the discussion such as the challenges of the contexts of the PAR processes, the findings in the collaborative work among educational institutions and communities and the paths and specific ways to networking for the global assembly. In fact, these inputs are extremely important to consolidate the program and principles of action for this convergence space. Secondly, it would be very interesting to open the dialogues in order to build a map of experiences that allows us to locate affinities with other projects and institutions in other parts of the world. These alliances are extremely important for the mobilization of ideas, but also for the exchange of knowledge that may be relevant in the specific processes of PAR. Finally, from these inputs and this map opens a possibility to recognize how the PAR processes are enriched at a theoretical and methodological level, the ways in which new theoretical and collaborative practices are enriching the foundations Of the PAR.

Best regards

Got this mail too late to be part of the discussion. I will keep myself updated from the coming notes. However I think the suggestions of the day
will be good and links well to the form we have chosen for the workshop on June 12

Med vänlig hälsning/Best wishes,

Karin

Karin Rönnerman

Professor, vicedekan

Från:
"Jose Ramos (Loomio)" [email protected]

Svara till: Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy - Global Assembly Coordinating Group

Datum: onsdag 17 maj 2017 01:30

Till: Karin Rönnerman [email protected]

Ämne: Jose Ramos mentioned you while discussing "Assembly Design / Diseño de asemblea"



ose RamosJose
Ramos mentioned you while discussing Assembly
Design / Diseño de asemblea ( https://www.loomio.org/ahoy/messages/t3WmJ5zFEvV5luwKnta1Yrr3R3RvOjQJ/click?signature=a59cc2b342efdd4e161673b27c09f8b923202271&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loomio.org%2Fd%2FqyM7KDsV%2Fcomment%2F1364962%3Futm_campaign%3Duser_mentioned%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dthread_mailer )

Thanks @wrayirwin for providing that overview. and thanks to @karinronnerman1 for the feedback.

To reiterate the rough proposal at this time is to do the following in sequence:

MORNING TO LUNCH

1 - keynote / call to action - Santos

2 - open space style of workshop based on 12 or so topics / issues. These topics will have been set by us (the coordinating group) and will be drawn from the points put forward by Cesar, and the issues / themes emerging from the participatory workshops.

3 - is a big tent report back space needed here? (with translation?)

LUNCH TO FINISH

4 - introduction to imagining preferred futures

5 - articulating preferred vision for what it means to enact knowledge democracy and transform the topic area - based on the same topics and open space format (but perhaps people can move from morning session to a new session if they want)

6 - big tent report back (with translation)

7 - concrete projects and initiatives formulation (possibly put on loomio as proposals)

8 - time to connect on projects / initiates for planning

This is all tentative and will likely change based on our conversations. We are meeting tomorrow via Skype to deepen the design dialog. anyone who wants to be part of this conversation let me know. The time are as follows:

Melbourne, Australia Tue, 16 May 2017 at 10:00 pm AEST

Bogota, Colombia Tue, 16 May 2017 at 7:00 am COT

San Diego, USA Tue, 16 May 2017 at 5:00 am PDT

London, United Kingdom Tue, 16 May 2017 at 1:00 pm BST

Johannesburg, South Africa Tue, 16 May 2017 at 2:00 pm SAST

if you want to be part of this add me to your Skype contacts: global-eyes

thanks everyone

jose

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Dear organizers

We have about 25 or so days before the assembly on june 16th.

There are several critical challenges that we need to work on. Can we try and have a conversation about these in the next week. We need to come to some clarity on the following issues:

1 - we already have some clarity that we need a number of topics and themes that draw from Cesar's points and the outputs from the participatory workshops (which will be the starting points for the assembly). How do we generate this list of themes in the next few weeks? Lonnie or someone else, do you have any ideas for generating 10+ themes topic?

2 - In our last conversation with Cesar and Lonnie (and in Cesar's recent post here) Cesar made the suggestion for creating a "map of experiences that allows us to locate affinities with other projects and institutions in other parts of the world." Does anyone have a suggestion for how we might do this in the assembly?

3 - Cesar and Lonnie also made the suggestion for a "technical secretariat or memory group" that can record and coordinate the production of a report or similar. Does anyone have any suggestions for how we might do this?

I'll be setting up a Skype meeting for this week on tuesday, so that we can continue to take steps toward a good design for the day.

Thanks everyone

Jose

Hi everyone

Janel, Lonnie and I had a conversation on Skype tonight, to discuss the three design challenges outlined, and to get clarity on ways forward.

We'll meet on Skype again next week on thursday june 1st

San Diego, USA Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 6:00 am PDT

Bogota, Colombia Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 8:00 am COT

Cape Town, South Africa Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 3:00 pm SAST

Melbourne, Australia Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 11:00 pm AEST

London, United Kingdom Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 2:00 pm BST

For those that want to catch up with where we are at, here is an audio recording

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1b51f90dlcntjoi/design%20conversation%2023%20may.m4a?dl=0

thanks

Jose

Here is a DRAFT of an idea we came up with for the format on the 16th. Please add comments, questions or suggestions! I've attached the draft as well as a pdf on "How Might We" questions. Lonnie and Jose- I hope I captured this accurately, please make any corrections if I am off base.

I think this structure of the day, June 16 will be productive, but as you write how do we feed in all material from previoius workshops and workshops on June 12. In a way it is important that we use the same way of organising this meeting as we have proposed for workshops elsewhere, so all good.
I have to attend other meetings on June 1 and will not be able to attend the skype meeting/ Karin

I wonder if these are the two big questions we should be focusing on:
1. Consider two big questions:
a. What does Knowledge Democracy mean to you?
b. What are some major challenges in Knowledge
Democracy?

I'd prefer to accept the following definitions of an ecology of knowledges and Knowledge Democracy:

"An ecology of knowledges is a way of holding diversity in knowledge that supports the growth and integrity of the whole. An ecology of knowledges gives us the opportunity to forge a new field of coherences in recognising the value of, but moving beyond, scientific materialist empiricism. As different knowledge systems interact, they can learn from these interplays. Instead of disintegration between competing reality claims, an ecology of knowledges leads to new possibilities of integration. The name for this new orientation is Knowledge Democracy."

Ramos, J. & Rowell, L. (2017) Combined GAKD communications and design report - March 16, 2017.

I'd prefer to focus on 'What am I/we doing to contribute of an ecology of knowledges and Knowledge Democracy?'

My concern with 'How might we questions' is that whilst they focus on the importance of imagining possibilities, they don't emphasise the 'What am I doing questions' through which individuals can hold themselves to account for living as fully as possible the values and understandings that carry hope for the flourishing of humanity. This said I'll certainly help with whatever organisation is decided on for the 16th.