a cultural project aiming to stimulate the discussion and the critical debate of current issues and to answer questions brought up by the creative community. A varied and international cultural program, entirely free - debates, conferences,
talks, documentaries, a performance and an exhibition.

There were also two workshops, one of which a SocialDesignSite´s team member had the pleasure of attending:

The "Bank of Common Knowledge - Lisbon" workshop was organized as a laboratory, focusing on a set of exercises/games involving audience participation, around a theoretical and practical approach to social application of open technology, focusing on how to build/organize/sustain local Banks of Common Knowledge, or any collective production or trading community on the basis of platoniq's experience in this social design actions.

The most diverse demands for knowledge came up, from food recipes to technological skills, learning a new language, starting a cultural association, getting rid of headaches without traditional medication, or meditation techniques. On Sunday, the 17th, all these offers and demands were distributed through 3 different exchange spaces, and throughout four intense hours participants had the chance to learn, teach, express, question, connect and fall into the urge of having Common Knowledge Banks as recurrent practices in our cities and communities. You can learn more about this project here .

Dropping Knowledge and Illegal Beauty , other two SocialDesignSite  projects, also participated. Daniel Kruse (DK) and Albio Nascimento and Kathi Stertzig (IB) showed their projects to a full and attentive auditorium.

Their inspiring projects, one addressing the world´s most urgent critical thinking and agenda setting, and the other issues of migration and illegality, raised some valid question, and opened up the debate.

For more information on Inspired Lisbon , visit their website here.