Description of the main orientations and philosophy of Open Walked Event-Based Experimentations (OWEE)

1. Part I: General orientations and philosophy
Open Walked Event-based Experimentations
(OWEE)

2. THREE IMPORTANT IDEAS:
DEFINITION: learning
expedition combining the visit of collaborative spaces with walked times in the public spaces of a city
The OBJECTIVE
transform collaborative practices between academics (and researchers* at large), citizens, entrepreneurs, freelancers
managers, activists, makers, artists, students & journalists
PHILOSOPHY
common good conditions of possibility

3. Open

4. OPEN
- Everybody’s welcome
- We try to cover a large scope of places and areas
- We never know when an OWEE starts or stops physically and digitally
also open in time

5. WALKED

6. WALKED
creates much more fluidity
in the conversation than that of the ‘seated world’
public transportation
more stable (even seated) times of visits make the walk even more
important

7. Event-based

8. EVENT-BASED
a sense of happening
open, inclusive, public space grounded context of OWEE makes that
everything’s likely to happen

9. Experimentations
Our two musicians of the morning in Kaos playing
gipsy jazz at Switch 21. Very cosy evening !

10. Experimentations

11. EXPERIMENTATIONS
bricolages and improvisations
to co-create a day or half day of the event
in the flow of the walk
maker, hacker, DIY, DIT cultures

12. « About the future, what is at stake is not prediction.
It is to make it possible »
Contributors to this creative common document:
François-Xavier deVaujany, Aurore Dandoy &
Albane Grandazzi (last update: 29/01/2018)
This updated version includes feedbacks received in
2017: during presentations of the method in RGCS
seminars (in Paris, Berlin, Rome), in RGCS co-
creation workshops in Paris and London, at RGCS
meeting of the board, during academic events (M&O
research seminar, invited scholarship at HUJ & SBS.
We thank all the participants who also contributed
to enrich the general orientation of the method and
its philosophical underpinnings.
All contents summarized in this document are
provisional, ephemeral and will evolve through OWEE
experiences