On September 21, 2024, you can join the online Global Meeting on Equinox for a global conversation about What it means to be human. This time, the theme is: Cooperation: Can we do it better? You can meet speakers and participants from all over the world.
Over the course of 18 hours and 8 sessions, we travel online from Oceania via East Asia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America to North America. On the way, we get a variety of perspectives on what it means to be human, how we cooperate, the role of economy in how we cooperate, and how we can change it.
The Global Meeting on Equinox is a global conversation about what it means to be human and how we can create a future where everybody can thrive. What it Means to Be Human is also a book and a series of online activities that are open to everybody around the globe.
Intro article
by Lene Rachel Andersen and Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Get at taste of the Global Meeting on Equiox today:
Meet Pindar Wong from Hong Kong
Why we need this now: article by Bob Bunge: https://medium.com/bildung/what-it-means-to-be-human-why-we-need-this-conversation-now-e6e146a4f05d
Program in the making
Oceania, East Asia, Asia, & the Middle-East: 04:00-12:00 / 4am-12pm UTC
Hosts
Ines Medeiros
Brazil
Józefa Fawcett
UK
Martin Ivarson
Sweden
Robert McTague
USA & Romania
Oceania:
04:00-05:45 / 4:00am-05:45am UTC
16:00-17:45 / 4:00pm-5:45pm Wellington
14:00-15:45 / 2:00pm-3:45pm Melbourne
Speaker TBA
Speaker TBA
East Asia:
06:00-07:45 / 6:00am-07:45am UTC
15:00-16:45 Tokyo / 14:00-15:45 Beijing
The Korean cooperative Hansalim has an impressive 900,000 consumer members and 2,300 farmer members. Their mission is solidarity between consumers and food producers, they are very successful at it, and Dr. Miseong Cho is going to tell all about it.
Hansalim: A Solidarity Based Cooperative
Miseong Cho
Korea
Today, the means of cooperation is generally money; we organize and exchange work through setting a price. But it wasn’t always like that, and maybe there are more meaningful ways of organizing cooperation.
Suggested reading & podcast: Embrace the heretic
Means of Cooperation; Male and Female Money
Pindar Wong (tentative)
Hong Kong
Female, matrifocal, or Yin money; Anne Snick collaborated with Bernard Lietaer who came up with the concept of two kinds of money: Yin and Yang.
Matrifocal Money
Anne Snick
Germany
Asia:
08:00-09:45 / 8:00am-09:45am UTC
15:00-16:45 Bangkok / 13:30-15:15 Mumbai
How can neighborhoods self-organize to solve local problems and create sources of income for those who have none? And what would housing look like if it were built around being good neighbors? Meet neighborocracy and Joseph Rathinam!
Neighborocracy and democratic housing
Joseph Rathinam
India
Speaker TBA
Speaker TBA
The Middle East and Conclusion:
10:00-12:00 / 10:00am-12:00pm UTC
13:30-15:30 Tehran / 11:00-13:00 Rabat
How does the ABCDEFGH: What it means to be human resonate with the Middle East?
ABCDEFGH: What it means to be human
Eliane Metni
Lebanon
The first 100 years of Islam included madrassas which produced an explosion of intellectual inquiry and bildung that transformed the Middle-East and, eventually, the world.
Meet the bildung Madrassas of 7th and 8th century Islam
Sara Rajabli
Azerbaidjan
Speaker TBA
Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America:
14:00-22:00 / 2pm-10pm UTC
Hosts
Ines Medeiros
Brazil
Józefa Fawcett
UK
Martin Ivarson
Sweden
Robert McTague
USA & Romania
Africa:
14:00-15:45 / 2:00pm-3:45pm UTC
16:00-17:45 Cape Town / 15:00-16:45 Lagos
For the economy to be sustainable, it must bring people together and take nature and other context into account. The African concept Ubuntu entails, among other things, “I am, because we are;” communities allows me to become me. One of them is the work community.
A sustainable economy is an Ubuntu Economy
Folarin Gbadebo-Smith
Nigeria
Speaker TBA
Topic TBA
Europe:
16:00-17:45 / 4:00pm-5:45pm UTC
19:00-20:45 Kyiv / 18:00-19:45 Paris
The way nature works and the way the current economic model works are fundamentally different. Ulrich Loening lists 9 ways they are fundamentally different, one of them is the concept of growth.
Suggested reading: Ulrich Loening’s Harmonise with Nature.
An Economy in Harmony with Nature
Ulrich Loening
UK
Throughout the history of humanity, we have collaborated and traded. How can we create an economy that takes into account the full human experience and makes it meaningful and culturally enriching?
Suggested reading: Lene Rachel Andersen’s Polymodern Economics.
A Meaningful, Culture-based Economy
Lene Rachel Andersen
Denmark
Latin America:
18:00-19:45 / 6:00pm-7:45pm UTC
15:00-16:45 Sao Paulo / 13:00-14:45 Bogotá
Speaker TBA
Speaker TBA
North America:
20:00-22:00 / 8:00pm-10:00pm UTC
16:00-18:00 / 4pm-6pm Washington DC
13:00-15:00 / 1pm-3pm Vancouver
Zak contributed to the book What it Means to Be Human, and at the previous event he spoke about The Last Educators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynwKfsFxUo This time he will introduce our intro article: ABCDEFGH: What it means to be human
ABCDEFGH: What it means to be human
Zak Stein
United States
Steve is one of the contributors to the book What it Means to Be Human.
The bildung human
Steve Joordens
Canada
What it is that humans can do that our machines and programs cannot? And how can we transcend the Industrial Age understanding of human beings purely in terms of their utility value, and begin to recognize our intrinsic value instead?
Program or Be Programmed: the human response to an age of AI
Douglas Rushkoff
United States
