On April 1st, Hub Berlin and the local Pioneers of Change and Art of Hosting network co-hosted a conversation with Pieter around social innovation, sustainability, and collaboration.
Pieter has been traveling through Berlin on his personal learning journey to explore communties in Europe working on social innovation: http://www.pietradelmundo.nl/learning-journey/
In the first dialogue of that evening, we were sharing our own personal stories on social innovation and sustainability in triads. In our group the connection was quite strong around the question of how we as humans can create a better way of living:
- How do we free ourselves from conflicts and arguments?
- How do we step out of hierarchies in order to create an alternative system?
- How can we create more democratic organizations?
Generally, in our group we have moved to a more sustainable lifestyle ourselves through a personal learning experience. Getting information about sustainability and being told to change our behaviour is not very fruitful. I think sustainability can only be achieved if we create a collective learning experience and move activism to a new level of dialogue and hosting.
Moving to social innovation, confusion was coming into the conversations of what it is, why it is so popular at the moment, and what the difference is compared to social innovation 100 years ago.
KaosPilot René who was present that evening shifted the KaosPilot methaphor of being able “to build a plane while flying it” to “Defining a plane while flying it”.
I checked out with the following reflections and learnings:
- What is the potential for Hub Berlin to be a collaboration catalyst for social innovation and sustainability networks in Berlin?
- Trusting the unknown (both in open processes and in people we have never met before) is a precondition for collaboration that can support social innovation
- I see the need for a space in Berlin to have further and deeper conversations around these questions. I am drawn to co-host this space to design a collective learning process around this issue
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FURTHER HARVEST AND FUTURE CONVERSATIONS
Read Pieter’s reflection from this evening here:
What is bubbling in Berlin
Hosting with time consciousness
The Hub Amsterdam has harvested some of their social innovation conversations here:
Social Innovation Series
Social Innovation in the city
The Art of Hosting Community is hosting a social innovation training at the end of April that is about to come to Europe afterwards: download invitation
