Verbeke Foundation, June-July 2019
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
In a society where computerized decision-making and communication render human meetings obsolete, we wish to provide a script to facilitate future re-enactments of such meetings. (But we are not nostalgic.) "A Last Meeting" is a protocol for organizing meetings. The protocol is a way to systematize a certain set of human interactions and dynamics; it is an open script for active and engaged exchange. Its website is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. It is developed as a public collaboration in a time when open source principles are changing arts, politics, government and online life.
The protocol of "A Last Meeting" is based on The Last Meeting, a 10-day work session that took place at the Verbeke Foundation in Antwerp. Website and text written in collaboration with Liesje De Laet, Ans Mertens and Andrew Scheinman.