Thanks to my very good friends Christine (@mccarthymadsen) and Matthew, I could meet today Alice Fung (@00alice) and Indy Johar (@indy_johar) from 00:/. Very interesting people. I wanted to meet them because in Factoria Ciudadana we have already started to work on the project of opening a The Hub in Barcelona. Already other social entrepreneurs in Barcelona have already been working on the same project for a few months, and we are starting to collaborate to make it real. Alice and Indy have been designing The Hub conceptual space from the beginning. I’ve already expressed my view about The Hub in a recent post. But the interest of talking with them goes beyond it. Their ideas are in tune with how I see the world and its future.
Last Sunday, some people organized in The Hub-King’s Cross a TEDX Volcano (second video below, skip the first 15 minutes, it is just people talking), an original way of bringing people trapped in London to share ideas about a diversity of issues, TED-style. During our meeting, Indy was telling us how the event started with a great artistic performance by Shushila Braman (spelling is surely wrong 
) (I’ve extracted it from the original video (first video below)), that tuned in everybody into the same emotional wave for the whole event. For Indy and Alice, this made the whole TEDX Volcano a great experience. Contrary to the industrial-age knowledge transmission ways, emotions become an accomplice of reason to share ideas. It is not anymore all about the word, but also about the image, the music, the art…anything that offers us the opportunity to share emotions. Reason and emotion are one continuous, both necessary to experience collectively in a meaningful way.
