Futuriser Cyprus Sep 2016
|
The Futuriser Cyprus Sep 2016 meeting has taken place in Pyla between 31 August and 6th of September 2016. The key members have began their meeting on the 29th, planning the program and also starting the fire for the others to join in as they were arriving.
The original expectations for 4-5 countries and 30-40 participants were exceeded: representatives from 10 countries and a total number of participants exceeding 70.
Every participant in this meeting had at least three different roles:
- Member of their delegation
- Supporter of and member of projects that were unfolding during Futuriser
- Participant in workshops and as such the supporter/researcher of used methodology
Project Groups
Info Space - Media Promotion
Navigator: Lika Chekalova
Create common information space for all who participate in our events in order to facilitate information exchange and sharing of ideas with those outside. This can be realised through a number of projects and initiatives:
- Encyclopedia of Reinventing Education
- Internet radio
- Internet TV
- Media promotion and marketing
Group members:
Eco-system - Integration Platform
Navigators: Maria Rodionova, Ivan Ninenko
Invent and design new systems that can connect the different models that exist in the world into systemic solutions that would allow to make education systemic within the complex system in which the whole world is immersed and not only within a university space.
Group members:
Types of thinking
Navigator: Yiannis Laouris
Methodologies of practitioners that envision to change the world like for example the Structured Democratic Dialogue of the 21st Century Agoras, Gardner and de Bono. One of the results of the project group was a research of thinking types promoted by the workshops during the event, this resulted in a table describing prominent thinking types and corresponding worskhops.
Group members:
- Alyona Surikova
- Oksana Glazunova
- Pavel Drobintsev
- Anna Mazurenko
- Aleksandrs Morozovs
- Liza Shevtsova
- Timophey Lakshin
- Lazar Kovacevic
Interactive Formats Group
Navigator: Grigory Kushner
A lot of people are talking about interactive formats, but when you come to the practice, like in a university or school context, courses are not so much "interactive". Different problems have different formats of interactions. Course on "enrichment". A course for those facilitators working on various educational projects of various types (e.g. university professors and teachers) to enrich the repertoire of interactive formats that they can use in their teaching.
Group members:
Futurising Universities
Navigator: Alexander Laszlo
Change makers inside universities who wish to shift the university towards new innovative educational paradigms that take into account (LABs within existing Universities).
Group members:
- Mariano Bernandez
- Andreas Shoshilos
- Bret Warshawsky
- Andrey Ponomarev
- Mikhail Kozharinov
- Ekaterina Zinchenko
- Natalia Kolotenkova
- Yaroslav Samilin
- Oksana Evseeva
- Veronika Denisova
- Amy Schulz
- Marsha Simon
Futurising Cities (Urban Labs)
Navigator: Cees Donkers
Group members:
Voice of Youth
Navigator: Katerina Luksha
Focused on connecting education with the needs of the youngest members of society.
Group members:
Education for Thrivability
Navigator: Joshua Cubista
Group focused on researching what is the type of education that could provide a thrivable future for our planet. One of the group results was the prototype of a Thrivability Education Roadshow.
Group members:
- Zdenka Stankova
- Pavel Luksha
- Harding Andrea
- Lev Gordon
- Nastya Puzirnikova
- Danila Kozharinov
- Maria Maryasova
- Victor Shiryaev
- Jiří Košárek
Workshops and Formats
Day 1:
Day 2:
- 4D Prototyping: Playing the Future
- Street Debates
- Esher Debates
- Prototyping & System Dynamics Workshop
Day 3:
- Feel – Visualize – Analyze
- Society 2.0 Workshop
- Structure Democratic Dialogue Workshop
- City Answers
- Xplaintome
- Awareness in Dialogue
- Rapid Foresight
- Escher Paradox Puzzles
- SAT: Who Is You?
Day 4:
- Quality and Posture of the Day
- Continuing workshops from previous day
Day 5:
- Prui
- Form the Form
- La Pallaisse Open Lab Workshop
- Noomap: Transformational Social Synergy System Designs
- Mindfulness Training
- Conversation Strategy
Day 6:
Day 7:
IT Instruments
Some of presented and discussed IT instruments that aid and augment educational, collaborative and synergistic processes include:
Location and Logistics
The meeting has taken place in the Facility of a new University campus of UCLANcy[1]. Accommodation has been secured at the University's dormitories, Oceania Bay Village Appartments [2].