Isn’t it time we had contemporary conferences too?
19 April 2011There’s a program on the telly about a contemporary art exhibition in Brisbane: ArtScape – 21C: Art in the First Decade. What strikes me is that it’s all about participatory contemporary art – interacting, not just observing. It’s about challenging and shifting perspectives and expectations. It’s about surprise and delight, maybe even discomfort. And it’s…
Doing even less
4 October 2010At this year’s Applied Improvisation Network Conference in Amsterdam, I was again invited to open space (dubbed the long-form improvisational form called ‘The Harrison’ by Chris Corrigan) on the final day, providing an opportunity for the 150 or so people there to share their gifts, ask the questions that were still bugging them and generally…
Shaking up the way we do conferences
1 June 2010The brief seemed fairly straightforward: design and facilitate a conference on evaluation of behaviour change. Oh, and make it different, groundbreaking even…unlike all the other conferences around. And could we also explore complexity? And could it be self-catered, by students? Could it be the sort of conference people talk about it the future? Not so…
Over there (at Show Me The Change)
13 April 2010It’s been a bit quiet here for a few days because I’ve been a blogging tart! That’s right – I’ve been blogging elsewhere – at the Show Me The Change blog. This Show Me The Change Conference that I’m involved in is an edgy experiment and I’m enjoying the challenge. We decided to stop complaining…
Curious
26 March 2010(Rant alert) So here’s a real curiosity. On first glance this Wisdom 2.0 Conference looks like a great idea – exploring how we’ll use new technologies, and on the third day “a participant-directed unconference and networking day”. This from the conference blurb: The question for most of us is not if we will use the…