Enacting Chance
Ignorance Insight and Intuition
Workshop Activities
Academic Slow Networking
August 23 from 6 pm (CEST time) there will be the social blended event (with food for in-person attendees), led by Micheal Soto from Spark Collaboration: "Academic Slow Networking".
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This interactive session over Zoom will explore serendipity, social networks, and networking. In 2012, Michael Soto helped develop an internal networking process called 'Randomised Coffee Trials' at Nesta, the UK innovation foundation. Over the past decade, he has focused on how the possibility for serendipity is shaped by social networks, which are understood as constituted by the pattern and the nature of interactions. As some equated the process to speed networking, he pushed back and suggested that 'slow networking' would be a more appropriate name.
Breakout rooms will be interspersed throughout this session so participants can "slow network." In response to the program's question, "Can we train for chance encounters/ events/ discoveries?", this session responds with an emphatic yes.
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Closer to the event, we will send the interested participants the Zoom link via email.
Serendipity networking - and the flow of ideas
August 24 at 3 pm (CEST time) and August 25 at 9:15 am (CEST time) we will have the special blended events
led by Roos Meerman and Sabine Winters from Filipstudios and Future-Based: "Serendipity networking - and the flow of ideas".
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Participants will work in groups of 3-4 on a visual network composition. Each, on their own, will search for natural and technological structures, which will be then composed together with their teammates, to craft a biotechnological network.
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By shifting between an individual scope and that of the team, between personal and social focus, and between holding on to our own ideas and integrating those of others, a new form of finding emerges. By the end of the workshop, the group has created a collective image that is created through collaboration, experiment, and collective thinking.
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In preparation to the workshop, all interested participants would need to:
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Get a free account on Miro
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Bring a camera (or phone) to the workshop
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Make sure you can make use of a computer or laptop
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Create a free pinterest account.
Closer to the event, we will send the interested participants the Zoom link via email.
Fortuna favors the bystanders:
How social spaces enhance unexpected opportunities
August 26 at 11:00 am we will have the special blended event led by Graziano Maino "Fortuna favors the bystanders: how social spaces enhance unexpected opportunities"
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The hybrid workshop will explore the role of physical and virtual contests and spaces in determining favorable occasions to catch the running luck. Do some social places have, more than others, the characteristic to let newness emerge and to activate connections? Are those local properties or do the social spaces stimulate people's inclinations to scan the world?
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We will dedicate the first 15 minutes to introduce the issue and the possibility to prefigure a canvas, a conceptual map of the workshop results. Afterwards we will work in groups to investigate which features enhance the opportunities of accidental fruitful discoveries in libraries, urban spaces, communities of practice, digital spaces (20 minutes). Successively we will gather in plenary and one speaker for each group will briefly explain the main findings (15 minutes). In the 10 minutes left we can comment on our rapid search and foreshadow some interactions between factors we have identified.
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We will work together via Zoom and we will use the Miro digital collaborative platform.
Closer to the event, we will send to the interested participants the Zoom link and the Miro board link via email.
Serendipity Go
August 27 at 1:00 pm we will play a game called "Serendipity Go" organized by led by Samantha Copeland and Sabrina Sauer. This Twitter game is meant to trace our intuitions and embodied experiences as we create paths together in wondering through our world.