Festival Micronomics 2009

BEFORE

As part of the Micronomics, City Mine(d) together with other micro-initiatives, researchers and policy makers organise the Micronomics Action-research.

The aim is to:

• define micro-initiatives,
• identify their contribution to urban and economic development and
• promote micro-initiatives towards researchers, policy makers and the wider public.

For Micronomics, Mayday has become an occasion to bring “creation” together with “showcasing” and “reflection”. Around that day, micro-initiatives take the stage and the street to show what they do, why they do it, and how they try to do it. This year, as part of the multi-day festival, City Mine(d) organises a Seminar: a series of workshops with micro-initiatives, policy makers and researchers.

The subject-matter micro-initiatives was divided over 5 subgroups, each investigating and approaching it from a different angle. A tandem of a researcher together with an initiative/activist are preparing a 2page position paper on the basis of which a wider subgroup will be involved. The invited group, consisting of micro-initiatives, researchers, and people related to public or private governance, will come together in workshops in the shadow of the Micronomics Festival on 30april and 1 May to discuss their opinion on the position paper. Results of this discussion will be summarized to the public by politicians on the evening of 1 May.

In the light of the regional elections of 7 June, the Seminar aims also to impact upon the political agenda. From a very early stage, the seminar will involve politicians who will stand for election. They will be kept informed about the preperatory process, will be represented in the workshops, and will present the results to the wider public. This allows them an opportunity to give their impression of the work and publicly state their plans of supporting micro-initiatives when elected.

DURING THE FESTIVAL

Workshops_Programme

workshoptoolsprogram .pdf