How We Meet aims to contribute to the experience of any diverse gathering of people. By watching the art film as a group, and then playing the board game, each person can reflect and share their own conditions for meaningful encounter, and be mindful in actively co-creating the needed environment.
How We Meet from Wow!Labs on Vimeo.
How We Meet is an artistic experiment to explore and express ways in which peers come together in a space of trust and equality, and what happens if they do.
How We Meet also brings into question the conditions for a safe space to be created among peers in contexts of radical diversity, and for authentic sharing to happen within a group that convenes different life experiences and horizons.
In order to weave in a realm of expressions, cultural references and sensitivities, artistic contributions were harvested from individuals present at a series of gatherings. The result is an 8-minute film featuring these expressions, and music produced collaboratively on themes that emerged.
How We Meet from Wow!Labs on Vimeo.
Why How We Meet?
The disruption brought by the pandemic in group gatherings provides us with a unique opportunity to reinvent the way we meet. More meaningful interactions are called for.
The project is a playful and soulful exploration of the conditions for gatherings, events and meetings to be reinvented, reinvested with meaning, re-encountered with wholler parts of ourselves.
Specs
Format
A 9’ film for projection
Followed by a board game (freely downloadable) for people to play in small groups
Up to 100 participants.
Equipment needed
Projector + sound system
Printed board game
Dice
Pawns, ideally a small object people harvest from nature around them
Timing
A session of 45’ is ideal: 10’ projection time, 30’ for the game + transitions
