what if collaboration might be one way to embrace the complexity of being together?



Meeting:
Coiling around talking circles


We talked about our meetings as talking circles because this is a more natural way of communicating and working together.




MEETING: COILING AROUND TALKING CIRCLES from Arely Amaut on Vimeo.



The knitting of our storytelling happens through conversations. Instead of working alone looking for the one right answer or being expected to figure out everything by ourselves, we have this way of coming together where we create a safe space by listening to each other. The more we gather, the more we can feel the sense of sharing which does not have a common belief. Collective Thinking Machine has a lot of different purposes; we didn’t know how this would start or if it would end so what we trust is the process itself. That’s why the meetings are both a process and a method at the same time as the hacked clay 3d printer machine could be seen as a memory tool for the storytelling and from where we can open dialogues.

Cargo Collective 2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles