This workshop is designed to be a collaborative event supporting co-construction of knowledge. We aim to build collective and constructive dialogues aiming at addressing the questions guiding the workshop and building some type of new contribution.
The different moments of the workshop will build upon each other. Therefore, participation is required for most of the event and you are expected to attend most of all of the sessions (exceptions may include brief interruptions in attendance).
It is possible that the outcomes of the meeting represent interesting enough contribution to warrant some kind of sharing and publication. In this case all participants will be informed and invited to contribute to the preparation of the publications, post-event. Given the collaborative nature of the event, all publications regarding the outcomes of the work on Part III of the event will assume all participants as co-authors and eventually the organisers as Editors, with or without other participants, who volunteer for the role. Participants may express the wish to not be an author or if you don't want to be associated with the outcomes your contribution will be, nevertheless, acknowledged in such publications as a participant in the event, unless you explicitly inform the Organisers/Editors that you do not wish to be named in the acknowledgements, which you may so by contacting Ana Teixeira de Melo to
anamelopsi@gmail.com or
complexthinking.project@gmail.com. The organisers may author publications regarding the process and dynamics of the meeting, namely focused on its methodologies, and/or a brief session report, but all publications pertaining to the contents and collective achievements and constructions during Part III of the event will assume the co-authorship of all participants, in the terms previously described. For this purpose, participants authorise the use of the data collected for the evaluation of the session, which will be collected anonymously (e.g. through an online form).
Participants are expected to keep your video on for most of the duration of the sessions, in particular, during the reception and welcoming presentation sections and during Part III, as we expect to engage in live dialogues and to build connections between participants.
The workshop will be video and audio-recorded in order to support its documentation and any future publications. The recordings of part I and Part II will capture only the active speakers and not the wider group of participants. Separate recordings will be kept for Part I and II and for Part III. Part I and II may be publicised and made available, non-commercially, online (e.g. on a Youtube channel).
The videos of part III will be kept by the organisers for a period of 2 years, to support any follow-up work or publication, and then destroyed. They will not be shared except, through private channels, with the group of participants who agree on confidentiality terms, namely not to share or reveal the contents of the video with anyone else outside the group except in particular circumstances agreed by all and contracted in future agreements.
The event will take place in two online platforms which will be used simultaneously: Zoom and Miro.
Participants will need a stable and strong internet connection.
Participants are required to create a (free) account in the platform Miro (
www.miro.com). A link to a Miro board will be shared during the event, which will initiate on the Zoom platform.
Participants are invited to have with them drinks and snacks (Part III) during the world-café session as we will try to create a “café” style environment for informal and creative discussions. They are invited to be in a relaxing, comfortable environment during part III of the event. Participants may be invited to use a shared backdrop on Zoom.
(Non-mandatory) Participants are invited to have with them a set of materials, that they might be prompted to use to express ideas in creative ways, such as: coloured pens or crayons; A4 white and coloured papers; scissors; cellar-tape; glue, play-dough or plasticine; lego and any other creative craft material. Any creative production may be sharing by taking a photo and uploading to the miro Board. Instructional videos will be sent before the session
Participants may wish to have a smartphone with capacity to take photographs and be able to upload photos, if needed, into miro, during the world-café section (Part III)
Given that the quality of the group work will depend on the quality of the relationships established participants will be invited to participate in some online, asynchronously, ice-breaking activities, before the workshop and to share some information about themselves, their work and their contexts.