During this weeklong process, our first decision as co-organizers was to include all researcher’s ideas and not to exclude some. We made a statement about the autonomy of the research naming a clear distinction between coming to investigate running your own agenda and coming to “make use of others” in order to get your investigation to go further.
It was important for us to share our interest in supporting a Research based on self-experience as we invited people to bring a Proposal/Score that will let them develop their research without needing others. Something that they could keep on working independently. We proposed them to come with a personal Score to start with. It could be dancing, writing, reading or finding an own Score, anything coming from experiencing and doing, so the focus could stay on the self work.
We gave the option of following Jurij’s Score of: dancing/ observing/ naming/ writing/ sharing the writing through posting/ dancing, which we saw as a great way to process the shared journeys from a very personal and honest place; giving each person the opportunity to read about other’s experiences if they were ready to do so.