First of all: YES, It’s gonna happen!
We are continously reacting to current travel restrictions, and the list of participants has been shaken up a bit. Please inform us about your planned travel schedule. From our side, we can state that a small scale gathering in Okinawa seems like a safe place to be under the current COVID-19 situation. Please be careful to check about your travel and where you transit.
Schedule: 25. March - 15. April
We are really happy to have such a durational collaborative event spanning over more than 3 weeks! And we are looking forward to host you and perform interesting research together. The schedule is roughly described on the wiki, and will be refined in more detail continuously.
Theme “ISOLATION” (and other self-organized research nodes)
We have already been discussing “Isolation” as theme for this edition and it has meanwhile transformed into an even more interesting topic to reflect upon.
“The main theme for Oki Wonder Lab is Isolation. We invite the participants to critically responds to the theme in every possible way. The geographically isolated island Okinawa is unique in it’s own but also shares many resemblance to other islands in South East Asian archipelago and the Pacific Ocean. Isolation allows anything to be reduce or to expand, to live or to die, to grow or to reduce. It is a natural process beyond our artistic or scientific comprehension.”
Discuss in the Forum online
Many of you were already invited to join our discussion forum / maillist. If not so, please make an account, so we can discuss further ideas and research topics collaboratively and openly. Also use the opportunity to introduce yourself virtually already now to all the other participants on the forum.
You will also find more info about accommodation, travel support, programme and food on the forum to discuss together.