LOTE5
On the subject of LOTE5, unMonastery Athens is working on a plan. We wanted to finish it tomorrow, but I drop here the ‘Introduction’ and post where we are at the moment in a separate post. I think this would be the perfect backdrop for the facilitated peacemaking efforts suggested by Kei and Nadia. Working together on something tangible.
Brilliant Proposal for the Gathering of the EdgeRyder Forces
Living on the Edge \#5 - Athens, late September 2015
For our milestone fifth LOTE unMonastery Athens offers to host and promote a dynamic event in which form equals content and seeks to represent in practice everything we stand for.
As our perennial central plank, the theme proposed is Social Cohesion - Survival Strategies. This year we carry the ER operating premise one step further: ‘them that builds the infrastructure calls the shots.’ LOTE#5 will take place in a temporary hexayurt village calling upon open source expertise to meet all our needs.
In 2012 EdgeRyders was inaugurated by the opening Living On the Edge conference in Strasbourg at the Council of Europe, cradled by the Social Cohesion Research and Early Warning Division. At that first conference we explored our collective future through the lens of collapse and sustained austerity - despite the relative stability since then in Northern Europe, potential and real crisis remains in our midst.
In the spirit of staying with the trouble, LOTE5 will see a return to our early roots in order to examine what we have achieved since then, with a step closer to the edge, with the time that has past since our early visions we have experimented and prototyped; unMonastery, Makerfox, hexayurts, new organisational forms and we propose that now is the time for a meaningful road test of that infrastructure under conditions that require it’s creation, with an open invitation to new collaborators to join us in structuring a useful constellation of resources in the LOTE5 Survival Village.