Workshops were based around questions such as 'how do we know'? what is knowledge'? 'where do we gain our knowledge from'? 'does someone hold control over our knowledge'? 'how does gender affect knowledge'? 'how does education effect knowledge'? 'how are our senses affected by advertising and the media'? 'how can suppressed knowledge be released into the mainstream'? Other sessions included a presentation on alternative education projects, an Indymedia session showing people how to use the website and publish news, and an experiment in anarchism called SOMA - Consensus decision making without the mind/body split.
We recorded an interview with one of the organisers of the event and a chat with a 'knowledgelab-regular' about the history and aims of the knowledgelabs. The last recording is part of a session called Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry (OSDE) which looked at knowledge, what it is and how our knowledge is affected.
Organiser explains about the 4th KnowledgeLab - mp3 1.7M
Chat with a KnowledgeLab regular about its history and aims - mp3 3.2M
Audio of part of the Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry session on 'Knowledge' - mp3 17M
Principles of the OSDE session (PDF) - application/pdf 91K
Enquiry: Knowledge and Perspectives (PDF) - application/pdf 104K
Knowledgelab 4 - 'How do we Know?' - 16th-18th February
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/02/361844.html
Knowledgelab 4 - 'How do we Know?'
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/01/360663.html
4th KnowledgeLab wiki:
http://www.knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FourthKnowledgeLab
Knowledge Lab Timetable:
http://www.knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/Preliminary_Timetable