{"id":1917,"date":"2013-08-07T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/news\/if-you-could-create-a-festival-what-would-it-look-like\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:17:15","slug":"if-you-could-create-a-festival-what-would-it-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/if-you-could-create-a-festival-what-would-it-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU COULD CREATE A FESTIVAL, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"
Can a workshop really help you create a festival? Of course not! It took us virtually the time it takes a baby to be conceived to plan the Transeuropa Festival<\/a>\u00a0embracing the “open air innovation<\/a>” in more ways than one.But there are ways you can use an hour to get people to start prototyping the design of a festival.<\/div>\n
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Value feeling as well as need: collect emotional\/sensory data and take it as seriously as\u00a0facts &\u00a0 figures<\/strong>The participants of the workshop each represented one of the cities of the festival and had been involved in developing the Network that was responsible for it. So I knew there were common bonds between them (this is just what we can see and feel, but maybe we should have an emotional mapping<\/a> exercise of the network?) – both on the issues they were interested in, the activities they found exciting and the personal relationships they had built between each other.Uncover the unseen: reveal underlying issues and topics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because we had been coming together as the Network to think more strategically about the themes that connected the festivals in each city together and then bringing that back to our city groups for the specifics, there hadn’t been time to learn on “how” the activities in each city were developed outside of the themes we were working on. So there was a genuine desire for people to celebrate and learn from each other’s stories of how these activities had been created.<\/p>\n

Authentic advocacy: give people the opportunity to be heard & tell their story<\/strong><\/p>\n

With over 200 activities organised for the festival, it was going to be difficult for people to tell the story of each one and we didnt’ know who would be interested in which activity (neither did they!), so we needed to look at how people could share these stories in just under an hour in a way that people not at the workshop could also learn.<\/p>\n

The workshop was framed around “\u201cwhat kind of events to run as part of the festival?\u201d” for next year, so as well as learning what had worked well, we still needed to start the process of exploring what type of events we could run for next year’s festival.<\/p>\n

Remembering that whereas last year, the process of co-production was very much focused on the volunteers (us!) from the previous festival, this year, we have now become a Cooperative, so we need to experiment how to work together across different cities and not just within our cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So I designed a game whereby I created the following typologies of the activites we had organised in this year’s festival:<\/span><\/div>\n