[SKRIVA] Future Day

From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:55:48 +0100
(Ni såg det här i kalendern. Jag skriver på engelska på det att min lilla 
rapport även kan brukas i andra fora där svenskkunskaperna är infinitesimala. 
--AE)
This is an international event, which in its Stockholm version was held in the 
Technical Museum March 1st. Its the idea of having a special day to  celebrate 
all the possibilities that our glorious future harbour. For a list of events 
world-wide see: http://futureday.org/events/
About 60 people had gathered in the museum's main auditorium for an afternoon 
that proved to be rather innovative. We played a "game" and wrote stories, you 
see.
After an introduction by organiser Vasilis Mavroudis, representatives of 
different organisations with an interest in the future presented their ideas. 
After that the audience was divided into groups. Each group was given a paper 
with the ideas from the organisations in random order.  The task was to 
identity which idea belonged to which organisation. The organisations were:
Transition (transitionnetwork.org) presented by Stephen Hinton - all 
presentations were made in English, BTW - who believes in "sustainable living 
and local ecological resilience in the near future", to quote from the paper.
Broken Future (dark-mountain.net) presented by Dougald Hine, a network to solve 
"social, economic, ecological and cultural drises that mark the end of the 
world".
Humanity+ (manniskaplus.net) presented by Waldemar Ingdahl and Hannes Sjöblom, 
who favours "technological transformation, the singularity and augmented 
humanity".
Wider Embraces (widerembraces.org) presented by Stina Deurell  which wants 
"recognition and development of collective consciousness and perspectives".
After the presentations our groups could get more informations from info 
corners of the different organisations, to help fill in the questionnaire, 
which was then corrected. My group, we called ourselves "The Improvisers", were 
proud to get full points here.
After this, the game continued with identifying possible problems with the 
different visions.  For my part, much of what was presented was too much of 
dystopian gloom cliches, like respect-Mother-Earth-and-eat-raw-carotts. 
Recycling, indeed - recycling the old Club of Rome claims , since long wholly 
discredited by reality. I'm more of a guy who embraces globalisation, hi tech, 
space, growth, technology and so on. I guess Humanity+ was the organisation 
most in my taste - they also like science and hi tech, and want to tweak and 
improve Homo Sapiens herself.
Anyway, using everything we had picked up, we were lastly to write a short 
fable. I'm a short story writer, but I must say that 20 minutes for this was a 
bit short. But I'm proud to say that I managed to contribute the basic idea, a 
fable of a cute chicken borrowing seeds from a greedy magpie. The magpie 
demands a high interest rate, the fable continues, but the chicken gets his day 
when he grows up to a mighty rooster. The different fables were read aloud for 
the audience, and then we put points on them to select a winner. The winning 
fable was about a tree that developed posionous fruits to get rid of goats 
damaging trees.
It all ended with a short panel debate with the representatives from the 
organisations.
I thought it was all very interesting. To get involved as an audience rather 
than to just hear a number of speeches could be something for...the future. 

--Ahrvid
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