two interesting posts… & some meaty questions
Thanks @Michael_Dunn for this and your other post on the work of the Golden Trailer - mobile clinic & cinema.
Clearly you’ll have amassed vital practical experience on your travels and it would be good to link up the learning with others in Edgeryders. I really like the notion of ‘Emergency Mutual Aid’ and a very concrete practice of solidarity. I can see how it’s useful to see “the migrant crisis as a training ground for the crisis of the future”.
The questions you raise in both posts seem to fall in to a number of headings: training/upskilling, logistics/coordination, personal resilience. These issues are core to the central enquiry of OpenCare if we are to gather insights to shape a “DIY welfare” network and they resonate with other questions raised in other posts shared on the Edgeryders platform. I could see a useful session - drawing on what you’ve learned and co-enquiry around the questions you’ve outlined - making a meaningful contribution to the Open Village event in October. I can also see that it could sit well in either the Architectures of Love theme or the Working and Living Well Together curated by @Woodbinehealth. It’s natural that there’ll be overlap across all the themes of the festival. @Noemi - what are your thoughts on this?
Under the Architectures theme it would be useful to explore - personal resilience, effective ways to pass on skills (this is also something other theme conversations have picked up on - see here). Logistics/coordination may come in to the considerations about the role of citizen compared to role of the state and appropriate instruments such as policy. I’m not yet clear on this. Perhaps others have some useful perspectives? Your questions would also bring in the dimension of emergency - what does urgency bring to the lines of enquiry the Architectures theme have considered so far?