Hands On Exercise and World Cafe TTT Pilot Berlin

Afternoon session Saturday 22.2.

NOTES

Berlin

Afternoon session Saturday 22.2.

Reflections on Modules: Urban Gardening, Degrowth core modules, TTT Module

note: Eva took notes at the same time

First 3 Posters with the 3 topics where made, people could walk from poster and contribute the questions: What was useful, what was missing, what should be improved? The notes are of the discussion following after

1st POSTER: Module urban Gardening

useful: hands-on exercises; tour: seeds as motivators,

missing: what are the dimensions of urban gardening; what was the role of the module? Clarity was missing, what is the session about? inclusion of the audience

what could be improved: what is happening; more connection between degrowh and urban gardening

General: is something missing? Nothing came up.

Gualter: for the specific course it was not planed to have a course on urban gardening; Urban gardening was taken because there was a need for some topic

→ this information should have been there before, that the course is not really about urban gardening

→ Sylvia: but what about the people who came for the two day course? They paid for some course on being

→ Maike: why can't we use methods to bring in content, instead of talking about methods and contents

→ Tina: example of the Transition Town training → people had to prepare, application process, each one developed a module

→ Kathryn: general comments: communication problem before hand, difficulty to communicate with people coming

Susanne: do we want to develop the urban gardening topic further? Or drop it? Do we want to publish it as a module?

→ NO, it was a tryout. Urban Gardening as an example to experiment the methods

→ Tabea: we should move to the next topic, more general organizational, structural questions

→ Question was if people who came for Thursday and Friday know that it was an experiment? Yes, the did!!!

2nd POSTER: TTT

What is part of TTT, that was confused before, need for clarification:

world café, exit cards, fairbindung exercises, yes/no exercise outside, observation exercise

most of the discussion was about what was missing and of what could be improved

main areas: big problem is that a structural frame work is missing

What is the course about?

What is the structure?

Who is doing what? Who is who?

Who belongs to GROWL in what way?

How does this meeting belong to GROWL?

Needed: more refection on the teaching dimension: how can I use the exercise... give direct further resources, where can I find more information

Suggestions:

An beforehand application form

A information package on what is GROWL for everybody beforehand

>Two more points: 1. course on facilitation as a method course 2. how to find out what can be a locally interesting topic, how to relate to local context? Giving the trainers the capacity to analyze the local political context and how to adapt the module accordingly.

COLLECTED QUESTIONS:

Who are we?

Why are we here?

What are we doing?

How do we work together?

How is GROWL structured?

Who is working on this module?

What has already happened?

Who is doing what? (Partners?)

What are the aims of the sessions?

Who can further contribute and how?

When do we have time to answer all this?

Gualtar: market place to talk about the modules which have already been developed, what is planed, also to get to know who is interested in which course and would like to go where PLUS table on the masterplan, what is GROWL

DECISION: Clarification in the Pause, for those who need it

Kathryn: critique on what happened on Friday afternoon, a group took over what was planed

→ will be addressed later

Eva: we cannot “make” trainers in two days.

Comment from Greece: they have 3 hour slot in their module for TTT and expect that they will learn, get methods/tools to do that

3rd POSTER: DEGROWTH PILOT MODULE

Answers to the three questions on the poster

Methodology of degrowth define a list of questions which lead us to degrowth thinking! Example we question present reality and it leads us to degrowth.

Provide questions which people have to answer for them selves critiqually; kind of an evaluation form for daily situations, to decide how to get to an act in line with degrowth ideas.

We need not only presentations of solutions, but also their critique

We should not only stick to the topics already related to in degrowth, but also find and conect new issues

Tetris idea Gualter: One building block is the degrowth core module and the local, specific module and then through this the political

We should be somehow prepared for the “lecture” should know something

Panos: What should be the output of the degrowth core module? What is the outcome?

3 hours presentation? Something different? What is the purpose and the method in the degrowth module?

Francois: it should not be a module that should always be copied, but there are central elements, which should come along, like dimensions, suources, history, rebound effect, but every time presented in a different way, with different methods

Martin: the idea in Witzenhausen was that the core modules should be refined with every workshop and this refinement should be published on the platform, that is open knowledege

Towards Francois: collect reading, should have been before, anyways there should be a reader, a library, presentations with key references

Gualter: We have to produce readers on the modules, each module is a piece of content, it's not methods

core moduels should also be adapted each time to the local topic

The reader should not be static it's open source, and developed and discussed

No matter what method you use will have some theory

Will there be a method and a theory handbook?

Yes, there but they should be connected in the sense that the methods can be useful for one topic, but not for others. So for each content there can be some suggested useful methods. And the other way around for each method there should be a note for which content it could be useful

There a methods to train trainers and there are methods to disseminate content.

What is new about GROWL would be that method and content are combined, there are lots of methods and content out there, so the new thing would be to combine it

…. missed some stuff

Suggestion Susanne: select central methods from the “Endlich Wachstum” and translate them, so that everybody has something at hand

QUESTION: what is the core module?

1. A lecture style introduction of degrowth theory and the history of the concept

2. Participatory methods to further understand the degrowth concepts; mixed participatory methods; exercise degrowth ideas; critical participatory reflection of degrowth