Fabulous session between Lisbon and Amsterdam, ‘broadcasted’ directly from the Fablab, where experts gave their vision and shared their experience as young entrepreneurs creating new prototypes for multiple purposes inside their fablab. Some prothesis for disabled or handicaped people living in african countries were made here with incredible low costs.
Session between Paris and Lisbon to debate topics on women empowerment through entrepreneurship, education and civic engagement.
A small group of portuguese teenagers came to Dialogue Cafe to match peers from the Youth Council, Ramallah, to learn the basic steps and moves of Palestinian traditional dances. It was an experimental workshop, to prepare a future Summer School in DC
Another successful DC session yesterday: groups with projects in vulnerable communities met through DC to discuss better ways to improve education and security between neighbors. In Paris, elements from the SUCCESS project. In Lisbon elements from the Ubuntu Academy (but not only!) and people who cares about the well being of others, specially in Outurela and Portela neighborhoods, Lisbon.
Here are some impressionist fragments of a meeting full of joy, humanity and cumplicity. In Lisbon DC the group brought a study case, and talked about someone very important to these neighborhoods: a police who is close to the community and acts without prejudices.
Lolita, photographer, was in Paris with her peers from SUCCESS. These next fragments show the touching proximity and informality that exists between people who meet in DC. Dialogue Cafe is a platform where all create and co-create projects, but also develop ‘quicksonic’ friendships!
Second session co-hosted by the Victoria & Albert Museum to bring together Design students and other young people’s groups based in Paris, Cleveland, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, to present and discuss topics revolving around the major theme “Design, Culture and… Sports”
Both dialogues triggered constructive and creative discussions around topics like the representation of the body: sports and body branding, creating stereotypes and lifestyles; and transport, design and technology, social changes, urban regeneration, museums of the future; … and built up ideas to be presented during the evening of events “Game Changers”.
Aims and objectives of these sessions?
The project connects young members of museums from different backgrounds to promote knowledge and experience sharing and discussion of innovative ideas. These 2 sessions encouraged future V&A/DC collaborative projects towards cultural understanding and change making by/with young people within the cultural sector.
Fabulous session about the future of Health, Telemedicine, Virtual and Real care, how to use technology and how to educate people to deal with the computer power and minimize isolation or ‘clinical exclusion’ due to massive cuts in healthcare budgets. Amsterdam, Lisbon, London and Ramallah joined the discussion between students, doctors, Health and AT experts. In Ramallah the Palestinian Minister of Health, Dr Hani Abdeen, gave an extraordinary testimony of palestinian reality and posed some relevant questions about the limits of Telemedicine. On his side was Professor Sabri Saidam, the co-founder of Dialogue Cafe in Ramallah, and Dr Haitham Al-Hassan, neurosurgeon who already used DC once to meet american peers to validate his complex surgery options to save the life of a young children.
The access to care is crucial to all countries and people, regardless the latitudes, and a lot of innovation is bringing people together, closer to better solutions. All the participants agreed that we have to combine several approaches, without loosing the human touch and face-to-face relation between doctors and patients. All the discussion started from the initial presentation of a new project of a portuguese team who’s building a Virtual Hospital in Portugal, linked to other virtual hospitals around the world. In Lisbon Ana Brasileiro, Dermatologist, co-founder of this project shared her experience in the field and her exchanges with peers. She mentioned the dutch KSYOS team and projects, that she met and inspired her a lot.
Dr. Safa Nasser Eldin, Minister of Telecom and IT, joined the discussion and showed her interest in DC to amplify the best practices in all areas of expertise. The presence of both palestinian ministers was important to engage politicians in vital fields such as continuity of care and personalized (tele)medecine.
In the Hub of Westminster, LuĂs Fernandes presented the project he’s co-founding with Ana Brasileiro, and explained ‘why now?’ and ‘with what aims?’. He reinforced the idea that nowadays most of the people use smartphones, mobile phones, computers and the net, and all of this ‘stuff’ leads us to a new era where people can rely more on technology clinical components concerning diagnosis process. In London a Macedonian participant added some questions and remarks, and in the end of this session, Sacha van Tongeren, the dutch co-hoster of this Health 2.0 meeting asked all participants to program some DIAGNOSE CAFE sessions. Done.
Dialogue Cafe is facilitating dialogue between people from all walks of life, across the world, to address social issues ranging from youth literacy to urban development.
