Harvesting Session on OpenVillage Festival Day 1

[alberto]

[Editor note: The following notes were made by @alberto during the “Harvesting Session”, at the end of the first day of OpenVillage Festival (19th October 2017). Quotes are not verbatim but summarize what was said. If you feel something is mis-represented, please tell us in a comment or with the “Flag → Something Else” feature and a mod will fix it. – @matthias]

@Harrison

Not clear what happens when people say “oh, let’s have no structure and be free”. Infrastructure is by definition invisible. We need to start understanding what it actually is.

@Tory

More whisper translators would be useful.

@Thomas

A community is like a dish full of food. Food is good, by the question is: who provides the dish? I really would like to know more about this?

@sabgaby

I would like to talk about medicalization of lifestyles. Some people call for de-medicalization, and want to rebrand anorexia or autism or amputation as a lifestyle. Where are the boundaries of “a medical condition”?

@French guy

We might be stuck into a situation where we are basing our thinking on false information. (Examples follow).

@albertorey

My takehome points: (1) it is important to find likeminded people to share dreams with, but (2) it is frustrating when that does not go anywhere concrete. It would be great to have some kind of information about people’s skills.

@hazem

My takehome is about the footprints of what we do. Alberto’s Kathmandu example is that his project did not clean up the rivers, but it did increase the awareness that the rivers are polluted. John’s clinic is up and running, so that’s a fantastic footprint.

@Henry

What is needed, on a personal level, for collective intelligence to work? How can we deal with immanent power structures? In my opinion the goal is not to take them away.

@Chris

The will to freedom is the only thing that is stronger than the will power. I suggest to look for and improve forms of agreement not to be dominated (nondominium instead of condominium). Second point: how do we measure “units of care”. Third point: the destination is not the point, just like in the urban game the point was not getting to the coordinates.

@bilal

I really enjoyed the game. I am interested in family, and that’s where the care starts. Some people are now looking into chosen families – me too, as long as I have increased access to travel. But it feels weird to ask for health to chosen families, people who are not blood. Maybe that’s old fashioned of me. But I would like to talk about family. Also: are we creating a kind of tyranny of reputation scores, a kind of God of judges us on the basis of our digitally encoded accomplishments?

[quote=Denise]I suggest we all introduce each other.

[Yikes! The idea gets voted out. Alberto proposes to build a sort of directory. Nadia proposes to put photos on the platform, where listening triads are listed.][/quote]

@ramykim

Inventory skills; also look for ways to encode them into data, and see if that engenders behavioral change, addressing perhaps public health concerns.

@Frank

Address issues with historical, as opposed to egotistical, approach. Behave as what we do here matters.

@nadia

How to do skills mapping in a way that is not anxiety inducing? Also: how do we channel our efforts in a way that is conducive to building something (we now call it the OpenVillage), and not let the momentum go, build something out of looking in the same direction?

[alberto]

That kind soul was me. I was not yet familiar with the faces, so there is misattribution and shorthand like “French guy”. Sorry

[ramykim]

Hey mods, the ‘American Lady’ was @sabgaby

[matthias]

Thank you, I edited it in

[matthias]

@alberto

That kind soul was me.

Thank you for the writeup! So I have attributed the first post to you now.

[ramykim]

Thx!