Calendar

ALL EVENTS OF ‘THINKING TOGETHER’ ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC AND WILL BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH.

Sunday, August 3, 2014
Osthang campus
seminar, performance
registration required

»«

1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
seminar ‘rethinking currency’
with Bernard Lietaer (BE), Jan Ritsema (NL/F) and Stefano Harney (SG)
» Osthang: workshop house

8 p.m.
performance Christophe Meierhans (BE) ‘Some use for your broken clay pots.‘
» Osthang: hall

9 p.m.
film program
» Osthang: workshop house

»«

Day four of thinking together is dedicated to a fundamental organizing principle of living together: currency. Whether it is understood as a synonym for money, a term referring to any medium of exchange, or a notion pertaining to the circulation of things, values and ideas in general, currency lies at the heart of organizing life and togetherness. Rethinking Currency is dedicated to new imaginaries and projects engaged in rethinking matters of currency. Amongst the hosts of this day are Bernard Lietaer, a leading expert in complementary monetary systems; Jan Ritsema, artist and Managing Director of the Robin Hood Minor Asset Management; and Stefano Harney, Professor at the Singapore Management University.

«some use for your broken clay pots» refers to the voting mechanism in the Athenian city state through which untenable political leaders could be banished by way of writing their name on a shard of pottery. Christophe Meierhans starts out from this form of ostracism to fundamentally question our current democratic system.
The performance, shaped and co-created by the audience, is an exercise in constitutional creativity. Its script is nothing short of a new constitution for a radically different democratic state, developed in collaboration with specialists from several Belgian universities. The text provides an overview of all the institutions, bodies, laws and procedures necessary to set up a new democratic system. If we assume that our identities as citizens reflect what is written in our constitutions, then the question to as is what new types of citizens would emerge if we would overturn our constitutional regulations? It is up to the spectator to imagine what our lives would be like under different constitutional conditions.

for seminars and open dinners, please register by July, 25 
» info@osthang-project.org
» Tel. +49 (0) 6151  787 61 80

»«

» about the project ‘Thinking Together’
» detailed information about the guests (bios)