OASIS Europe: Invitation from Hub Amsterdam
Hub Amsterdam member Niels Koldewijn is inviting the Hub Berlin community to the Oasis Game – played by Hub Sao Paulo in its building phase, played by Hub members and friends in Copenhagen during COP15, and recently with Dutch Hub members in Brazil…
“As a Hub member from Amsterdam I’d kindly like to inform you on a unique training we’re offering in june on participatory community development. We’re receiving trainers of the Instituto Elos from Brasil, who’ve designed a collective community-building process called the Oasis Game which they have succesfully applied in many communities across South America, during the COP15 in Copenhagen and will do in Holland in June.
Oasis Games are two to four-day actions that invite a community to come together to cooperatively design and build a challenging project chosen by community residents to meet their needs, such as a plaza’s, parks, daycare centers, or cultural centers. It assumes a broad definition of community, and includes, if possible, representatives from all different parts of society. These may include representatives from institutions, local government, as well as people from other parts of the city. We engage community members to collectively design and build meaningful new public spaces. This game typically lasts a couple of days, and includes at least 4 meeting of dialogue with local community leadership.
If you’re interested to learn how to apply this methodology in your work as a professional in urban or social development, as an entrepreneur, changemaker or community leader feel free to join our 5 day Oasis Europe training in June. The Oasis Europe training is bringing together people from around Europe to go through an experience driven training where we work in a Dutch city suburb to create an Oasis through the Brazilian methodology of the Oasis Game. As a Hub member you get a 10% discount.
More information:
If you want to get an idea of what the effects are of an Oasis game, please check oasismundi.ning.com and oasisholland.ning.com for photos, videos and blogs.
You can download the invitation on the FairGround website.
If you feel inspired to join, here’s some general info:
Dates: 10 – 14 June, 2010
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Spaces: 30 participants
Costs: 790 euro’s
Additional hotel costs (if applicable): 250 euro’s for 5 nights, including breakfast and diner
Elos facilitator: Rodrigo Alonso (founder of Elos)