A-Infos (en) Australia, Brisbane, Anarcon - Anarchist conference 2003

["Margaret" <margaret1@rie.net.au>]

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We are in the process of getting the website up at the [still commercial oppenig page]
http://www.anarcon.cbj.net  it should be working in the next few days. 

The conference will be organised in a similar way to the Brisbane Social
Forum, using Open Space Workshops.

"This is basically a self organising model in which the agenda for the
forum is defined on the day by the people who attend. Rather than being
chaotic, it is a dynamic, clearly structured model which can respond to
the needs of the people who attend.

Open Space' draws on the work of science in the field of complex adaptive
systems, where humans, like nature, are seen to be self-organising, not
self-disorganising. If you accept this premise to be true then less becomes
 more. Outcomes arise in spite of structure and control, not because of it.

Rooms are made available and time slots pre-determined. There will be up
to 12 workshop spaces and 5 workshop sessions - allowing for up to 60
workshops. People then are invited to nominate workshop topics -within the
theme of the forum - declaring who they are, what their workshop will be
about, what time and in which room. These workshops are then mapped on the
wall.

People can attend the workshops at their leisure. If no-one attends a
particular workshop - fine. If people in another workshop decide that they
want to spend the whole day exploring the issues in more depth - fine. The
people who are there define and create the forum that they want. No one can
control or co-opt the process.

Open space operates according to 5 principles

1) Whoever comes are the right people
2) It starts when it's meant to
3) When it's over it's over
4) Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
5) You are free to do whatever has value to you (the law of two feet)

Participants take notes as they see fit. These will be typed up by
participants as the forum proceeds and will be made available shortly
afterwards." from www.brisbanesocialforum.org

More details on Open Space can be found at
http://www.openspaceworld.org/english/index.html

Will forward more information as actions and details are finalised.


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