====== The Energy to Network to Provoke Change ======

===== What Does Meaningful Connectivity Mean to Me? A Relational Workshop Dinner =====

==== Blurb ====

**Building better worlds despite the algorithm**

An experiential exploration of how technology might support us to build better worlds, if it wasn't being deliberately wielded to keep us isolated, dependent and angry. We'll use paper cards as a stand-in for social media, and explore how we could use it to tell positive stories, and see how they can be distorted by big tech. Then we'll discuss when it's a good strategy to build alternative networks, and when it's necessary to remove our consent form existing ones.

==== Exercise ====

It's 2032. After the economic and climate chaos of the last few years, we're starting to see green shoots popping up of something better. Not a single better world, but glimpses of many better worlds, all waiting to be born.

Write down on index cards, things that you're noticing about this better world. Share something that you could offer to contribute to the better world. Share an ask that would help you or someone around you. It's a special day, you're on you way to a community meal, share a reflection, a memory, or a picture.

//We take the cards, and split the group in half. The first half, your job is to arrange the index cards into a story of this world. Tell us the story.//

//Then, we give the index cards to the second half. Your job is make us feel panicked, isolated and dependent. You can use half of the cards, in any order. You can intersperse them with these advertisement cards (provided). Show us the order, tell us a story that casts these cards out of context for maximum polarization.//

Discussion: How can we use tech to serve us, not big corporations? How do we balancing helping the new world to be born with removing consent from the oligarchs holding on to the last shreds of the old, dying world?




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