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Week of August 26th at Edgeryders

Workshops, Ear Trumpets & Situating Health Social Movements in 2017

  


Starting September 16th Edgeryders will be hosting a series of workshops across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa & the United States. Because we know that diversity is critical, we are exploring how we can build “smart swarms” - decentralised strategic collaborations between of hundreds of small communities and organisations across countries and sectors. Join us if you wish to learn more about how Edgeryders is building such a solution and how your project or ideas can benefit from it.

Got 2 minutes? We would like your help in shaping these workshops by answering this short questionnaire. 

Deadline for registration is one week before the workshop. We recommend that you do not leave it to the last minute - tickets are free of charge and we only can only fit 30 people in the venue, so they will vanish quickly. To get a ticket create an account on edgeryders.eu and tell us a little about yourself here. Do not leave it to the last minute. We have a highly limited number of free tickets available!
 
 
Session Proposal: How to build a social movement for care in the 21st century?

In OpenVillage related news, Gabriela Sanchez and Dana Mahr from the University of Geneva (@CitizenSciences) propose a session to "contextualize socially and historically how civil society has intervened and impacted biomedical knowledge and health care in Western societies."

Their objective is to explore the way in which social movements shape our understanding of care related concepts such as expertise, disease, bodies and care.
 
"The purpose of this reflection is to situate Health Social Movements (HSM) in 2017 and to sketch some of the potentials and pitfalls they face with current social and technological trends like: Big data driven medicine and care, the automatization of health care work, scientific citizenship, the re-emerging discourse of empowerment and participation, the right (or duty) to make individual lifestyle/medical choices, the growing medicalization of many aspects of modern life"

Taking a look at the Women’s Health Movement in the 1970s, the Deaf Culture Movement, the Anti-vaccination Movement and the Pro-anorexia Movement they want to discuss how contemporary social health movements can "alter the public discourse about care and its policies" in the 21st Century. Check out the proposal and let them know your thoughts.

Non-Electric Hearing Aids Outperform Modern Devices

In other news, @Matthias digs up a gem of 19th century wisdom from No Tech Magazine:
Since the nineteenth century, the main criterium for a hearing aid is no longer its effectivity but its discretion and compactness. Nevertheless, those who can overcome their vanity can revert to technology that has proven to work.
If you thought you had your hearing problems figured out in 2017, think again :)
 

OpenVillage Festival (Oct 19th - 21st)

As part of our preparations for the OpenVillage Festival we are discovering how under-the-radar projects could be better supported in an ecosystem. By October 19th to the 21st we aim to:

  • Engage existing initiatives in telling about the practical challenges they are facing

  • Validate them through open discussion, both online and offline, to understand the full scope of how alternative care systems are coping with the needs of people on the move

  • Demonstrate / Exhibit projects and concepts in a format immediately useful to practitioners, economists, policymakers and any interested parties working on similar grounds.

How you can contribute

  1. Explore the stories that others have shared and leave thoughtful comments.
  2. Tell us about your own care-related experiences and projects. Where are some things you have tried to do in the past, what are you doing now.
  3. Build a proposal for a demo session / exhibition at OpenVillage. You will deliver a practical, hands-on showcase of a project connected to migrant care. Tell us what support do you need to make it happen
Open a new document and write down what you are doing or have learned. Don’t worry about getting it “right” in any way - this is a no judgement space. When ready, login to edgeryders.eu and upload your contribution through the “add my story” button below.

Good For You
When you post you will get a ticket to OpenVillage: Meet the OpenCarers. When you post you become eligible for the Open Fellowship.

Good For Everyone
Your input goes into the OpenCare research project - the findings are shared in the form of a report which we hope will be useful for everyone interested in care for the 21st century.
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