#NewMacy ACT III: Reintroducing Stability (RSD11)

What is it about?

In Act III we collectively built foundations for ongoing conversations and collaborations. We opened with a multi-part conversation in which participants critiqued and developed ideas constructed during the Friday and Saturday Studios. Our goal was to develop and expand #NewMacy conversations so that we may construct an ever-inclusive and participant-directed platform for dynamic stability and growth. What questions might we ask? What ideas might we explore? And crucially, what concrete steps can we take to support and sustain these conversations? Participants engaged through an exercise that modelled question generation and conversation networks.

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Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash

Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Our (adaptable) goal is to act in generative anticipation of #NewMacy's possibilities for service in our current moment. The 1-800-CYBERNET exercise takes its inspiration from a site of improvisatory collaboration, a place where service is – ideally – provided for those who seek it. This is the site of the "call room," generally perceived as a site of frustration, where questions go perpetually unanswered. 1-800-CYBERNET does not answer questions either, but its call agents generally guide participants in working with questions in order to adapt to changing environments and the unknowable – to build collaborative relationships as they steer. At RSD11, 1-800-CYBERNET played out accordingly.

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