Small group conversations: The Remo platform encourages conversations around a collective space. When you arrive or during a break you can select a seat by double clicking on the available seat around a campfire and start a chat with other participants. To move from one campfire to another you can double click on an empty seat, and look for people you know or start a conversation with someone you don’t yet know.
Provocation: We will start every morning with a provocation by invited panel members. The provocation will be followed by small group discussions. These discussions will be facilitated by the collective around the campfires. Thereafter, a mini harvesting of the discussions will follow. A mini harvesting entails collated feedback and responses that are captured by participants in the chat space and or a Padlet (more information on Padlets below). Any important questions can be captured in the Q&A space.
Presentations: The morning session will be followed by two longer participant-driven sessions. Each session will host 2 or 3 parallel tracks. Each track will be hosted on a designated floor and will include 3 to 4 short live presentations (max 10 minutes, suggested 5 slides). Rather than traditional research presentations, these presentations should be reflective, provocative, inspiring and focus on findings but also on questions that have emerged or still remain from your proposal to feed into the facilitated conversation among presenters and participants in the space. Presenting in this format should open up spaces for engagement and diverse conversations with participants. If you would like to share further information about your presentation, you can always share resources on the Padlet.
Posters: Presenters of posters will also be included in the conversation for each track. Poster presentations should be shared in advance and will be available via a link in a designated space on the floor. Posters could be presented in either of the following formats: poster, PowerPoint slide, recorded presentation, infographic or any other relevant format. Please share the link to your poster and you can also upload your poster into the designated space on the Padlet. In total each of these tracks will run for 90 minutes (including presentations and conversations). Session conversations can continue on the padlet.
Critical Dialogues/Workshops: Sessions will include critical dialogues and workshops. Critical dialogues will begin with the presenter/s provocation followed by a collective engagement with participants. Workshops will be more interactive and purposefully structured according to the aims of the facilitators.
Collective harvesting: At the end of each day we will wrap-up with a collective harvesting of critical issues emerged during the day’s sessions.
Day 5
The final day of the (un)conference will be facilitated in a more open, participative and reflective format. The “closing the loop” session allows for a facilitated reflective and reflexive discussion. This session intends to explore, together, the enabling and constraining contextual conditions to enhance institutional and collective agency towards sustainable futures. The open mic session will be an interesting agentic space to voice your thoughts of the (un)conferencing format and the presentations over the past four days.
