{"id":5649,"date":"2014-03-24T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:27:38","slug":"to-camp-or-not-to-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/fr\/to-camp-or-not-to-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"To camp or not to camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve organised different types of events which bring people together to uncover issues, develop ideas and prototype solutions.<\/p>\n

With such exotic titles as\u00a0Visual Camp<\/a>,\u00a0Creative Campaigns Days<\/a>,\u00a0Make Your Festival<\/a>,\u00a0Outcome Fest<\/a>,\u00a0Transeuropa Festival<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Transformed by You<\/a>. I\u2019ve taken part in many more! They were all designed to achieve different purposes and were all bound by usual constraints of space, time & money. They\u2019ve\u00a0incubated new ways of involving people<\/a>\u00a0and helped\u00a0rethink how we interact with issues and solutions<\/a>\u00a0altogether.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to use up this post to describe all the examples of where this events have produced social impact, but a project we\u2019re\u00a0just about to kick off<\/a>was born out of an innovation workshop we had at our\u00a0festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is never a perfect way of helping people come together to make sense of the issues and develop solutions to them that they can take forward. Different event formats work better in different circumstances and what I\u2019ve tried to do is either really focus on one of those outcomes \u2013 i.e. making sense of the issues (Visual Camp<\/a>)\u00a0\u2013 or hacking different event formats into one (i.e.\u00a0Creative Campaigns Days<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In thinking about an event I\u2019m\u00a0helping co-design<\/a>, I thought I\u2019d share my \u201cthinking out load\u201d on each of the event formats. It would be great to hear what other people\u2019s experiences are!<\/p>\n

Unconferences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unconferences \u2013 of which the best I know are\u00a0@ukgovcamp<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@localgovcamp<\/a>\u00a0– are great at surfacing challenges and ideas that people in the room want to work on together, but they favour people who are confident enough to be in the spotlight to put forward their idea to people they don\u2019t know. The following Storifys by @dosticen put thespotlight on this issue<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0how to tackle it head on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because of the time taken for people to get under the skin of the challenge and the intensity of thinking on the spot, the ideas developed often ignore existing evidence \/ initiatives on the issue\/s they are trying to tackle.<\/p>\n

It is also difficult to produce outputs that people not at the unconference can relate to and get involved in after the event.\u00a0Visual Camp<\/a>\u00a0tackled this through the use of visualisizing, but it\u2019s still difficult to pick up where someone else left off.<\/div>\n

\nThey also create the space for people to build teams, as except the person putting forward the idea, everyone is coming with equal status, while people can move to other teams if they feel they aren\u2019t helping or getting value from the group they are in and can contribute more to another group.<\/p>\n

What you can take from unconferences into hybrid formats:<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n