Weekly Record Sheet

5th February 2020

What did we do this week?

Meetings and events

1. Working on organisation-process/structure a. Fabi created structure diagram

2. Vision Group meeting

3. Marketing / PR / Communication Group

4. Sunday Weekly Coordination Meeting (Sunday 2nd)

5. Meeting with Randi from NTNU /Bopilot

Readings

1. Fabi did readings on urban self-governance and self-organisation (Rauws Selfgovernance versus self-organisation). Would be interesting to try and fit Farge into this model.

2. Hamish read about housing project in Ireland - viable systems model (Exploring the efficacy of consensus-based decision-making: A pilot study of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland)

Was it effective?

1. Structures meeting didn’t achieve objective of developing a proposed structure in the meeting and sharing before the Coordination Meeting

2. Structures meeting wasn’t able to gather research outcomes from all participants

3. Vision group successful in presenting draft Vision in coordination meeting

4. PR Group had different objectives which made it difficult

5. Weekly Coordination Meeting didn’t achieve all objectives but had clear actions

6. Bopilot meeting very successful in sharing the visions of each group and potential avenues for working together

What did we learn?

1. Individuals can struggle to devolve decision-making power to others when they feel so invested.

2. There is a virtual ‘core group’ which may find it practically difficult to share power

3. Meeting needs leader and agenda

4. Important to incorporate different personalities in meetings - those who prefer structure and those who have lots of creative energy. Important for people to be able to comment on the agenda in advance, and for the meeting to be arranged by the convener, timer keeper and minute-taker.

5. Domino effect of meetings not achieving full objectives

6. Boligstiftelsen is working on similar projects with Bopilot on empty housings

Reflecting on theories

Power

● Power can be informally invested in ‘core group’

Self-organisation

● Hard to agree

● The ‘consensus’ model can work well or it can be extremely damaging depending on group dynamics and topics of discussion

● We are rather “urban-self-governance” then “self-organisation”

To do’s until next time

1. List of what we want from Bopilot

2. Reaching out to different groups: a. Immigrants, elderly, children, minorities, handicaped ppl, psychiatric St Olavs, redcross, caritas,

3. Finalise the email to Eierskapsenheten and Byplanleggingskontoret

4. Upload all notes from our theories

5. Find and share more theories around self-organisation of intentional communitieswhere they have failed and succeeded

6. Having scheduled meetings

7. Art project with NTNU LIVE