Open Space
Since the Summer Course in 2010 the Open Space has been a core component of the academy program and has developed, especially during recent years, to a kind of “fringe festival”: Course participants, tutors and guests have been using the Open Space rooms extensively for self-motorized exchange and self-organized knowledge transfer in order to share ideas, concepts, texts and “their” music with others.
The Open Space rooms on the Summer Course campus are open to anyone who wants to raise issues for debate, organize public talks or lectures, show films, listen to music, or initiate other public formats. Open Space is set up as an autonomous public zone, a platform for self-organized exchange complementary to the official curriculum of the Darmstadt Summer Course.
Open Space rooms can be reserved during the festival on place only. To avoid any false expectations, we would like to point out that the Open Space rooms are not suitable for extensive concert presentations but are intended to be suitable for smaller formats where personal exchange and meeting new people are the primary focus.
OPEN SPACE Programs 2010-2023
Manual
OPEN SPACE is a tool for self-organized exchange and knowledge transfer complementary to the official curriculum of the Summer Course. There are three simple rules for using the OS that are meant to facilitate self- organized activities:
- Don’t leave traces.
- Make things possible for others.
- The doer decides, the decider does.
All OS activities are self-organized, that means that there is no staff assigned to the rooms. The organization and realization of activities, the preparation, build-up, usage of equipment and cleanup after the event are the responsibility of the respective initiator(s). If you need support you can find someone from the OS team at the festival office. OS is public, that means that all activities organized within it are publicly announced and accessible to the public. OS is not a private rehearsal or work space.
More details on how to organize a project in the OS can be found here some weeks before the Summer Course.