This project was conducted online as a small compensation for the postponed Symposium. It brought together 21 participants from 5 continents:
Ruth Foulkes (New Zealand), Jennifer Charteris, Adele Nye, Carol Wexler, Trina Supit, Jenny Onyx, Trees McCormick (Australia), Shabnam Syed Khan (Pakistan), Nora Räthzel (Spain), Linn Alenius Wallin, Karin Hansson (Sweden), Nora Bräcklein, Bianca Fiedler (Germany), Philip Taucher, Brigitte Hipfl, Doris Allhutter (Austria), Daisy Pillay (South Africa), Mary Travis, Janette Tafoya Giles (USA), Nita Mishra, Robert Hamm (Ireland).
The project started with individual brainstorming pieces depicting impressions of experiences during the first wave of Corona. From the collection of topics that were brought up in those brainstorming pieces we identified the term solidarity as a topic that was relevant to everyone in the group in some form.
We then built four clusters (of four to six participants). These clusters worked independently of each other over a period of eight weeks from June to August 2020 on the topic ‘solidarity’. In each cluster there was a mix of backgrounds and prior experiences with applications of CMW represented.
The project was explicitly not aiming at a joint result, or a publication. However, some material that was generated by the clusters may be useful for others. We are editing the material at present and it will be made available here whenever a piece is ready:
Concluding reflection from group 2 : Karin Hansson , Trees McCormick, Nita Mishra, Jenny Onyx. The pandemic as “a portal between different worlds”.
Summary of key elements by group 4: Linn Alenius Wallin, Doris Allhutter, Carol Wexler, Nora Braecklein, Trina Supit, Robert Hamm. Also available from this group is a detailed documentation of the work process.