GHF Open Village 2022

The second edition of the Geneva Health Forum Open Village will take place from May 3 to 5 2022 (Tue to Thu).

Activities should be organized in a big tent on the International Conference Center esplanade, as well as online.

Participation should be free of cost.

Purpose
Libre and open-source innovation empowers communities, increases trustworthiness, and cuts costs by up to 100 times.

Acknowledging health commons as the new standard of care, we Keywords: solidarity-driven care, health commons, health democracy, citizen-led decision-making,
 * federate communities that co-create freely reproducible health knowledge and technologies
 * empower people through critical thinking and political action in order to identify and tackle socio-economic barriers to health
 * enhance contributions to and governance of health commons by coordinating efforts and sharing critical successes and challenges

Activities
We will invite interested people to propose activities. A form will be opened early January 2022.

Rules of play
All proposal have to


 * align with the three objectives described above
 * be not-for-profit and put the quality of cooperation first
 * be carried by at least three individuals from diverse backgrounds who are directly affected by the topic
 * dedicate at least two thirds of the activity's time to participants' contributions
 * be documented in the wiki so that the whole community can benefit from the activity

Methodologies

 * creation-as-research, that is research emerging from creative work
 * project-based learning, where the participants have different roles to solve an issue
 * experiential learning,

Examples

 * Content focused
 * Mutualizing transdisciplinary knowledge accross thematics → Undestanding asthma through a pulmonologist, public health, psychoanalytical perspective
 * Building open hardware in parallel with remote fab labs → 180-min workshop to adapt a 3D model of a prosthesis to local needs
 * Sharing best practices accross commons, etc. → 75-min open discussion on community building
 * Collective writing of a policy brief → writing day on community medtech regulation
 * Developing methodologies to research alternative medicine → two days iterative process to design and get feedback on a protocol
 * Creating one-page visual guides to address taboos → 180-min workshop on the management of errors
 * Technology building → 240-min to build a tool to help patients find resources
 * Projects presentations → 6-min and 20 images on a project around hypnosis
 * Discussion group → 60-min discussion on the suffering of the medical body
 * Seeding a popular initiative → city-based activities on decolonizing water


 * Process focused
 * Helping participants emergence with a shared project → half-day dedicated to share needs, agree on priorities, put in commons resources
 * Exploring arts and storytelling with vulnerable populations → 90-min art-therapy workshop to reflect on identity
 * Science-fiction exploration → 45-min to remember a tech-less future of health
 * Legislative theater → 300-min to reflect on emergency laws