Ausna · Buenos Aires — How can we rebuild a society for human creativity?
A small table of people who live in Buenos Aires (people who make things, and people who shape the world around making: artists, musicians, founders, curators, teachers, people building AI) around this season's question.
Life has long been organized around producing enough, and the work that makes a person who they are is often not the work that pays their rent.
Bring one interesting case of human creativity, from anywhere: a song, a line someone wrote, a chair someone designed, a dance that spread through a city, the way a neighborhood runs its market. Yours or someone else's. Anything that makes you rethink what creativity is. A photo, a link or just telling it is enough.
How it goes: a round of names and what you do; each person shares their case in a couple of minutes; the table picks two or three and talks them through: if we took this case seriously, what could human creativity become? One line each at the end. Two hours, mate on the table, in English.
Conversation rules
These are the agreements we ask everyone at the table to follow, adapted from Ausna’s World Rebuilding Club:
Complete frankness. Say what you actually think, including where you disagree.
Keep disagreement with the ideas. Hear a challenge without turning it into a personal offense; challenge someone’s thought while making room for the person.
Sincerity toward complexity. Give the complexity of humanity and the world the attention it needs. Stay curious about what a neat explanation leaves out.
The right to represent yourself. Each person gets to say what they mean, clarify their position, and speak from their own experience.
Keep people present. Bring the people, experiences and consequences behind an idea into view—including the people in the room.
Unfinished thoughts are welcome. Pause to think, write or look something up. Nobody needs to be right. Imagine boldly and make sincere guesses about what we do not yet know.
Each evening is written up. You'll see your part first, and it goes out only with your yes.
The table leads into a month of co-creation, Nov 21 – Dec 19.
Hosted by Allen Chen. Ausna is a society to explore and foster what humanity can become: https://ausna-issue.notion.site/3fe94639385b818a9c73d4fe6ed38e9f
Hosts
Doelenia Ommia Kazen exists to support and protect those determined to practice the full range of what it means to be human — against a world that too often flattens our full possibilities.
We are an alliance. Not a platform, not a brand. A commitment to the belief that every human being carries within them the right and the capacity to explore, create, feel, and believe.
Partners — 706 Youth Space
706 Youth Space is a youth-led self-organized community that promotes a “co-build, co-govern, co-share” model, with a decentralized structure and a globally distributed presence. It has incubated a series of communities, projects, and spaces, and—with an open, inclusive attitude—has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world, including students, office workers, NGO workers, gap-year travelers, university professors, and digital nomads.