{"id":15673,"date":"2016-10-25T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-marrakesh\/?p=15673"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:46:05","slug":"mobilise-150-people-design-conference-session-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-marrakesh\/de\/2016\/10\/25\/mobilise-150-people-design-conference-session-together\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how you mobilise 150 people to design a conference session together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2015\u00a0Youth In Landscapes Initiative. Paris, France<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Michelle Kovacevic<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens when you take 150 people and ask them to design a session together?<\/p>\n

Some might\u00a0say chaos, others might say equitable participation.\u00a0At the Youth in Landscapes Initiative<\/a>, we subscribe to the school of the latter – no matter how much trickier diversity may make processes, it is important and should be conducted if and where possible.<\/p>\n

So when it came to running our fourth youth session at the Global Landscapes Forum (see the first<\/a>, second<\/a> and third<\/a> ones) we decided to mobilise our global\u00a0alumni base to collaboratively design the session together. Virtually. Over 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

We decided to use Facebook as the platform – mainly because that’s where everyone spends most of their virtual time so it’s not really hard to grab their attention. David Thomas<\/a>, facilitator extraordinaire and CEO of\u00a0Danaqa World Chic, kindly offered to facilitate the process for us and keep us on track.<\/p>\n

We started off discussing our desire and intention for the session – did we want to brainstorm, innovate, get feedback, express youth attitudes?\u00a0Promoting innovation and real solutions came out on top.<\/p>\n

We then started to discuss the big problem we want to solve. A seriously interesting conversation emerged. Here’s a small selection of the many ideas thrown into the ring:<\/p>\n