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Designing the European Salon
How much structure is enough to allow for co-creating the European Salon and not overloading it with content and program?
This is the first draft of a time structure we have produced in May during the planning meeting in Dresden. Contents and processes will be developed interactively between now and October.
1st Day (16.10.09)
• Travel
• 16.00 – 17.00: Welcome and registration
• 17.00 – 20.00: Welcome Café
• 20.00: Dinner
2nd Day (17.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 11.00: Morning Circle (out of which the day will emerge)
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
• 18.00 – 19.30: Evening Café
• 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner
3rd Day (18.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 11.00: Morning Circle (out of which the day will emerge)
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
• 18.00 – 19.30: Evening Café
• 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner
4th Day (19.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 12.30: Closing Café
• 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
• Travel
What topics are you interested in?
What questions would inspire great conversations?
What kinds of results do you want to obtain and how should we get there?
How can we make results visible?
This is the first draft of a time structure we have produced in May during the planning meeting in Dresden. Contents and processes will be developed interactively between now and October.
1st Day (16.10.09)
• Travel
• 16.00 – 17.00: Welcome and registration
• 17.00 – 20.00: Welcome Café
• 20.00: Dinner
2nd Day (17.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 11.00: Morning Circle (out of which the day will emerge)
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
• 18.00 – 19.30: Evening Café
• 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner
3rd Day (18.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 11.00: Morning Circle (out of which the day will emerge)
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
• 18.00 – 19.30: Evening Café
• 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner
4th Day (19.10.09)
• 07.30 – 09.00: Breakfast
• 09.30 – 12.30: Closing Café
• 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
• Travel
What topics are you interested in?
What questions would inspire great conversations?
What kinds of results do you want to obtain and how should we get there?
How can we make results visible?
Tags: Design, European Salon, interactive, participative
Replies to This Conversation
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Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on -
I'd like to add some context for this conversation.
Designing the European Salon is an ongoing process that has started earlier this year. Going back to the World Café design priciples, the first steps are well on their way, and others are open tasks that need coordinated action now and in the following weeks:
1. Setting the context
We crafted the intent and chose a time and a location for the gathering. The process of invitation is underway. The actual time frame for the event itself is outlined above. Financial conditions are clear and transparent.
2. Creating a hospitable space
This is underway. We think we have found a good location, and that the Hotel Marienhof has several rooms that actually are salons fits perfectly with our intent. We didn't know this in advance, by the way. This was intuition. One of the tasks before the event is actually transforming the conference space in a hospitable space.
And we are creating a hospitable space onlie as well. As this is underway and if anyone has ideas how to make this space even more hospitable: Please share your ideas proactively.
3. Crafting questions that matter
This is the part that is in need of everyones input so that the Salon will be fun and inspiring and rich and fulfilling.
4./5./6. Inviting everyones contribution, crosspollination, listening for patterns and deeper insights
We are confident that this will happen when so many »stimulating people of quality« (wikipedia's definition of a salon) get together. It might not happen by itself, but need some midwifing / shepherding / attention.
7. Harvesting
What kind of results do we want? What kind of impact do we want to create? And how can this be best made visible to which audience? -
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