GHF Open Village 2022

CICG Esplanade

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

• 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

Keywords: solidarity-driven care, health commons, health democracy, citizen-led decision-making,

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
  • Also see: suffering of the medical body, salutogenesis, patient rights, ...

• 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