NUrope – the Nomadic University of Europe – is presented as a joint project between the European Cultural Parliament, Åbo Akademi in Finland and Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletti in Italy.
I happened to read about it in a newspaper in the spring of 2007 – when the project was on its first journey, having gathered once in Åbo/Turku and once at Cittadellarte in Biella. I joined by the time of the Kassel oasis, in june 2007 – out of interest, and because I wanted to visit the Documenta, anyway. Since then, there has been oasises in Ljubljana, Istanbul and Åbo/Turku-Stockholm which I have attended as well.
So, what is NUrope? To me, it’s a partly stable, partly variable group of qualified, friendly and communicative people, gathering in chosen contexts, sharing experiences and thoughts… in the refreshing shadow of a tree which branches out into art, economy and philosophy.
This is where the project presents itself:
www.nurope.eu
and this is the NUrope Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15071390178
The following are my own notes from oasises, and between.
This page has the following sub pages.
Liebe Helena — my fast and intuitive response upon your question ‘How could quality be recognized in a shared learning process like the one we experience in Nurope?’ relates to the classic new-age reference Robert Pirsig…
“Quality,” or “value,” as described by Pirsig, cannot be defined because it empirically precedes any intellectual constructions. It is the “knife-edge” of experience, known to all. “What distinguishes good and bad writing? Do we need to ask this question of Lysias or anyone else who ever did write anything?” (Plato’s Phaedrus, 258d). Likening it with the Tao, Pirsig believes that Quality is the fundamental force in the universe stimulating everything from atoms to animals to evolve and incorporate ever greater levels of Quality. According to the MOQ, everything (including the mind, ideas, and matter) is a product and a result of Quality.
More, but hardly better via
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_metaphysics_of_quality
Yes, you hit the target; Pirsig is one of my lares and penates, too. My question is, more precisely: how can this sense of quality be cultivated in a process shared among a number of people – also considering hierarchical structures, cultural differences and anything else that constitutes this tower of Babel in which we live?
How could this cultivation be communicated and actually made part of the process itself?
What kind of experience do you have on that?
Varma hälsningar, Helena