If you’ve been in touch with me or Natalia, remember we asked you to set aside some dates in September for us all to get together and plan the months ahead. Unfortunately, we cannot meet physically due to conflicting schedules.
So we are going to do a series of 3 online calls, an opportunity to get on the same page and offer each other support where needed.
Specifically, the sessions will:
present in more detail the Edgeryders methodology for online engagement (@Nadia, Noemi)
present in more detail the Edgeryders methodology for building participatory events (@Nadia, Noemi)
offer ideas and inspiration for how to make the Festival more engaging and relevant for the community members (@nadia, @noemi, @natalia_skoczylas, everyone)
Hi all and thank you for confirming your availability!
We will go forward with Thursday and Friday, and instead of Saturday we will set a later date for the 3rd session when most people can do it. Other than Aska, it seems everyone is available for these 2 days.
Before Thursday, please make sure you have read the following documents and browsed through the sites. We need to start from a common ground and we will not have time to get into details like ex: POPREBEL goals, what is Edgeryders, how to use the platform etc.
About Edgeryders. The video on this page was made at another community event, in South Italy.
Website: about POPREBEL/ Wellbeing in Europe community project. This site is a quick overview of the project (in each Language) and who we are. It’s the one we promote to a community audience. Note how the official project name POPREBEL is not used. Instead, we use Wellbeing in Europe: this is our community narrative signaling interest in people’s lived lives, their experiences and socio-economical contexts. We do not ask, nor are we interested in their opinions about populism. The political context is expected to come out during the conversations and interactions on the platform, but it is not the starting point.
Platform: Wellbeing in Europe community space. The interaction space between participants. This is where all the stories and comments should be published. It is also the ultimate proof of delivery of work for the entire Edgeryders team.
Outreach and Communications Workspace. We have a team of people, @Inge and @anon82932460, who collect important status updates from the different Edgeryders projects, then send them out to everyone asking them to share the updates. They also do targeted social media campaigning, and can advise you.
Edgeryders OpenVillage Festival. Organised in 2017 with the community, also as part of a larger research project. We organised it using the platform and online calls! This was the workspace, if you’re interested to read more (optional).
If I’m missing something please add @natalia_skoczylas@nadia.
What is a good place around which you can convene people to share their stories? a place around which many people pass or spend time in. It could be a neighborhood, a pub, a church, a hospital, an open ‘office’ in the field. That could be the starting point for collecting deep stories, ‘portraits’ of people who you would then engage repeatedly to understand their own story better, to help them create accounts on the platform, to have them join the event and meet one another.
The format of what you want to do. How you can get people to interact with you in that place and get a conversation going. How to record that story?