Hi everyone,
Hope all of you joining futurespotters in Tbilisi last week are back home and safe! If you’re anything like me, you are probably still raving about it with friends and digesting all the knowledge we were exposed to, that which is hardly available around the corner! For example:
- David de Ugarte and Juanjo Pina’s insights into what makes Market Activism: They tell business "You have no future. But we believe in you, work with us." It’s the way they’ve changed banking and created (and sold) a 30 million euro company.
https://twitter.com/Gazbee_S/statuses/482058015194243072
https://twitter.com/lingelien/statuses/482058129715494912
https://twitter.com/alberto_cottica/statuses/482057218570059776
https://twitter.com/alberto_cottica/statuses/482057857085747200
https://twitter.com/benvickers_/statuses/482062046687932416
- Starting an unMonastery with the mindset “I want to start a family”: it is not about inventing new things, but retrieving great forgotten practices and re-implementing them. For further reference don’t hesitate to read what modern day social innovators can learn from the life and times of St. Benedict.
- Vake Park 6 month movement to save a green area in Tbilisi and its protest structure: "We don't have leaders, we have choreographers". Take off points: strategy to reach out virally to everyone (eg older people) using Twitter Fast Follow to send info on dumbphones
https://twitter.com/edgeryders/statuses/482065231108386816
https://twitter.com/juanjopina/statuses/482069364209090560
- Iare Pekhit (Georgian pedestrian organisation) take on public spaces in the city: “a good city is a city where we like to be out". Got any insights into what makes public authorities become more cooperative? Get in touch!
- Vinay Gupta’s model of the 3 sharing bureaucracies involved in any initiative - the owners, the managers, the protectors. When building a project, you might find yourself having to navigate each and assume more than one role!
To mention just a few! The rest of the session documentations are available on https://edgeryders.eu/events. Be sure to check the TALK TO ME ABOUT bubbles session documentation. if you’ve got new insights feel free to upload them as posts on the platform.
We also have audio recordings of key sessions, courtesy of Aden. Videos coming up in the next days!
- The MakerFox demo
- unMonastery in a box (for evaluation and replicability)
- Final session on UNDP involvement in Futurespotters and the value that came out of it for the organisation and for citizens at the edge
https://twitter.com/alberto_cottica/statuses/482886224093655040
https://twitter.com/edgeryders/statuses/482155740858449920
https://twitter.com/Gml2001/statuses/482058930437509120
https://twitter.com/Adenwa1a/statuses/481782082906382337
https://twitter.com/Gazbee_S/statuses/481775962682822656
Thank you to all for a great ryde and remember that Futurespotters, like any of Edgeryders projects, is a pretext to bring us together and set the space and tone to engage truthfully with one another. Once the foundation has been laid, it is up to each of us to decide what are the steps forward and what you yourself are willing to take responsibility to make happen: it could be you offering your skills to help an initiative you think it’s promising, it could be partnering up with futurespotters members and writing applications for funding, it could be coming on board and helping build our next community event Living on the Edge (LOTE4) in Matera…!
Photos by Leonid Mujiri here. If you need a couple at original size get in touch!