Present in the call: @Simon Grant @Hazem @Noemi @Dorotea @mariabyck @Kei @Micha @Nadia with cameo appearances from @elf Pavlik and @Auli :)
[Calls for p2p support!]
Know of Italian foundations to present the unMonastery to for fundraising? Please contact @Ben
Want to help yourself and others get better at effective storytelling for broad engagement in your work? Contact @Noemi
Up for doing a Meet the Edgeryder story on someone else and having them do one for you? Or even drive this creative and useful project to use our collective online presence to draw support around great people and projects? Contact @saidhamideh
[#Insight] [#Howto] [#Learningfrommistakes]
#unMonastery
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make sure that the core group arrives at the same time - forced interaction for new unMonasterians with city for the first month through couchsurfing and only meeting in public spaces. @fortyfoxes suggested this during lote3, and others disagreed. David was right it turns out.
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language collaboration: context for people in Matera to translate for every foreign language project
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at least 2/3 of people need to speak the local language - terms of participation ought to be that while your project is the basis for application, you need to be ok that your individual project is not the definite thing you’ll do when you arrive.
Learn more about the unMonastery and connect with community members working on it in the unMonastery group.
[Insight] \#Collaboration, and how to create conditions for more of it
#Obstacle: Perception of #competition
What’s the source of the perception about competition? In Matera, based on the mapping of relationshiops they have been doing with Gaia it seems people are operating in their tiny circles
In Egypt: lack of trust according to Hazem. : -openness and collaboration lead to trust and are a way to build it -> not the other way around
In Georgia: organisations have old ways of doing thing, change would require more resources and attention to value that’s created
Examples and approaches that seem promising
Mapping the Commons project at the unMonastery – working with 3 storytelling spaces who didn’t know of each other. Key to ability to collaborate according to Maria: the projects were all similar enough that they could have independence and also be part of a larger framework
Insights from workshop in Egypt: Choosing and creating space for openness and honesty creates trust, and quickly, whereas common perception is trust comes first.
What we are doing next and how you can get involved
Collaboratively building the next #futurespotters event in Georgia (june 25-26): leave a comment below and we’ll get in touch
[please help with more calls for action by reading the conversation notes below and extracting one sentence for each things we discuss we would do]
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Simon grant
-involved in an eco-coliving space in Lancaster, northern England
41 households with over 60 adults, nice place by the river
-interested in community governance and consensus models
Ben, from london at the unMonastery, has been involved since 2 years
Noemi, from edgeryderws, does community building, currently juggling spot the future, and seeing what other people are doing and connecting members all over ,
Hazwm from egypt, is in the spot the future team, currently in Berlin, studying urban development, ioriginally
Kia and Maria at unbmonstery. Kia open tech school: was in arts admin and education, . Impotant to offer those skills freely.
Maria video maker, do documentary style stuff. here in unMonastery, changing relationship with camera to one of seeing it as a way to begin conversations and connect with people. has transitioned to larger project called mapping the commons. Kia building web based tool for gathering info around resources, knowledge, memory emmded in communiyt. Then activated in event at end of month. Way to help people be connected to their community.And also trying to help with infrastructure, andf longevity of unmonastery.
Maira and Kia, one staying after june, another is working to come back.
Ben. living and working as an unmonsk. discussing how to be able to handle more people coming in. Local. we have a month to figure out if we bring in extra people from Matera. Figure out in next two weeks how long cankeep the unmonastery alive
if you start unmonastery, make sure everyone shows up at the same time and is committed to at least three months to get it going.
Number of projects: we tried to balance though applications rationof speakers to non speakers. Logistically it didnt work out. people in matera have other lives they cant be totally committed. At least two thirds have to speak native language of place they are coming to.
Also the process of getting people to apply is to submit individual prtohects, but agree this is not necessarily working for collaboration
collaboration keys: projects needs to be similar enough and communication styles. With mappuing the commons, we’re working with 2-3 storytelling spaces. We keep getting asked what the pthers are doing, when they could just speak with one another. One of the key functions is facilitator, network weaver and communication. There might be a certain amount of competition between them, isntead of seeing one seeing each other as a resource. Why is this? Capitalism? People. Relationship maps…people teraditionally operate withion little circles that are all close in relation. Its hard to break out ofthe ciricles.
Hazem: lack oftrust, when thereis an organisation involved in something it creates a sphere of untrust. Asking the unMonastery: how does the language barrier work out? My concern about this kind of collaboration.
Noemi: when issues raised in tbilisi, people founders of organisation didn’t even want to discuss it, or knew how to pin poin it. barrier they identified is that its really hard to change the mindset because it would take alot. In georgia they are highly highly formaliseds… founders of organisations didn’t want to go into the issue, aas if they were comproomising their organisations.
Ben what sort of organisations?
Noemi activist organisations, open data, new types of advocacy and journalism. Those already working in new ways.
Ben: similar to like when the sharing exconomy actors come together and talk about open data, but not open contacts.
maira: ownership of ideas mentality and that is a big part of it. That people don’t see ideas and comons, that they dont come from one mind but groupo of minds, built on something on the air…collective idea. Trying to keep ownership of something that belongs to everyone creates sense of competition
month of forced interaction with the city, couch surf and only meet in a public space.then using that as basis of team coordination. Less time preasue.
more calrity with respect to decision making and power structures. A mor conssiten sturcute for meetings, How decisions are made. A cleearer way of doing that, a conscious way we are developing. Each meeting seems like the start of a new way of getting together and getting things done together. Internal mmeetings, need for template.
Time frme: shorter time frame can be useful and productive. But want to lose the aspect of building strong partnerships. Went for 4 months, didnt want to scare administration into thingking we are not going to leave. Framing it as a seed resourcing, the model is focused towards trasnfer of assets from states failing to handle their our property. So maybe pitch to city we try new thing you seed resource it, nyt responsibility of people to move in to find good model, structure, sustainability planning.l.
Things we need help with: if people know italian foundations we can go to, ben is putting presebntation to taljk tp them. We dont have time to do long funding application process. Foundation can just hand oceer money.
POutting post out talking about structuring a remote working team for the unMonastery. Lts oepeople who want to put in pto project. now we have website, gaia soing network stuff. Conversation with David, viral academy. Viral academy is hangout but for teaching people skills. One thing interesting, if gaia wants to do lesson oin networks, incite others to learn by doing. Good way of building stronger connection.
callse useful for getting things done, but its more like heres list of takss go do. Viral academy is like heres something to learn, now lets get to do things better.
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On the relationship between opennes, honesty trust and collaboration
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