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IFF4: December 2002, Arbroath, Scotland

Description

This meeting completed the original two-year cycle. As such it was an attempt at synthesis – and so took place in the remote and inspirational setting of Hospitalfield House, Arbroath. Between IFF3 and IFF4 there had been a number of other meetings and events to explore particularly significant aspects of the emerging IFF story. There was a session at BP’s headquarters in London on the subject of Love and Fear and Corporation. There was a workshop in Edinburgh on Story, Metaphor and Complexity; and a joint session with Poiesis and Nesta on The Power of the Arts in an Age of Complexity.

In terms of synthesising our own learning, the results of this fourth meeting are best captured in the work we produced in the months following: notably the little book Ten Things To Do In A Conceptual Emergency and the IFF Stuff CD-Rom which is more praxis-oriented. One of the features of this final meeting was a dinner in Dundee for all those whom we had worked with over the two years in Scotland, at which we asked for feedback on what the IFF had meant for them, what we had brought, what resonated. Some of these comments are recorded in a short document Feedback from Scotland.

The meeting concluded with three commitments:

  • to ‘digest the pudding’ of IFF, ie codify and disseminate the learning and insights from our first two years;
  • to maintain and develop the projects and practical activities associated with IFF;
  • to establish a permanent home for IFF, its thinking and its practice

 

click to see accompanying cartoonsCartoons from IFF4


Documents for download
Click on the documents below to download them to your hard disk.

iff4_vid01.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 1 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 2.1MB

iff4_vid02.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 2 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 5.2MB

iff4_vid03.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 3 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 3.8MB

iff4_vid04.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 4 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 3.9MB

iff4_vid05.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 5 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 1.5MB

iff4_vid06.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 6 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 3.6MB

iff4_vid07.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 7 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 2.8MB

iff4_vid08.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 8 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 8.6MB

iff4_vid09.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary 9 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 894kB

iff4_vid10.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 10 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 5.7MB

iff4_vid11.swf
Dundee Meeting Video Diary - 11 of 11
Date: 20 Nov 2006  Size: 4.5MB


Meetings

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IFF 4

IFF 5

IFF 6