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Hi everyone,
At @Petru_Ioan's proposal, yesterday we had our first informal get together as an emergent community of futurespotters. A bunch of us showed up: Petru, myself, @OanaT, @Alex_Stef, @Ana_Ungurianu, @Cristinas and a friend of hers (maybe Cristina, you can invite him to join us on the platform?). The photo above is of the space we visited made entirely our of recycled materials and pallets, called Intrarea violoncelului, by folks at reciclarecreativa.ro. Great space!
Putting a face to user profiles we had seen online was not hard (some of us instantly recognised each other!) but we’ve seen how dynamics change when going offline. We had a chance to chat about the purpose of Spot the Future as an opportunity to join resources to support members’ initiatives already under way. Here would be the steps to follow during the next week:
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Summarize the main questions raised so far by community members in Spot the Future and see where the overlaps are.
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Create a simple visualization of initiatives mentioned to see where we connect with each other in experience, fields of activity and outer networks.
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Come up with a theme or key question for the workshop in July that we want to answer together in the runup to the event and during the two days when we take action.
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Set the date for the workshop. Cristina and Oana advised to host it during the week, preferably on a Thursday & Friday. How does everyone feel about 2nd-3rd of July? Or 9-10?
Me and Alex Stef are taking responsibility for the points above, as Alex is the new community connector following the Open call we launched 2 weeks ago; but I’ll let her introduce herself properly in a different post. I am very thankful to the incredible honest accounts of living and working in Bucharest that came in, and looking forward to work with you all!
We need all the help we can get… It starts by letting others here know: What is it that you would like to see the workshop achieving? What should we do together to increase the impact of everyone’s work? Example by @RazvanZamfira: bring together all of these grassroots initiatives not in a classic conference room or indoor space but in a public space of the city which is in many ways closer to their working environment and more open to outsiders wanting to get to know more about what’s happening in their cities and maybe getting involved (source)
Call to action: Would you be up for a collaborative video-making session where we, together, launch an invitation to the rest of the world to join us? We could even do it in the beautiful garden where we were yesterday, will check with Georgiana Cremene from the team there. I would aim for next Thursday, what do you think?
We got an invitation from Cristina’s friend to host weekly workshop design meetups in a newly to-be-opened space near Piata Unirii (anyone got address?) - an incubator for projects aiming to achieve sustainability and helped by people with experience in very specific areas - from social entrepreneurship consultants, accounting, marketing etc. It’s called NGO HUB.
