In October 2015, Susanne, Matthias, Otto and Rainer, all from the Hamburg network, met for dinner to sound out a possible revival of the project. The stimulating exchange of ideas converged into a draft concept paper:
THE BASIC INCOME – PANORAMA
Kick-Off for another Europe by and for EuropeansAn exhibition which illustrates the European dimension of a BASIC INCOME and at the same time incorporates local and national visions and needs.
Following the fundamental idea that the BASIC INCOME will be a bottom-up movement and that, within an European BI local and national needs and interests are to be respected, the exhibition should be designed as a “work in progress” with a strong interactive character.
In the beginning a modular sized basic exhibition (sort of version 1.0) will be elaborated – for example in Hamburg with a German point of view.
Afterwards the exhibition switches to another country where it could be (or should be) enhanced, enlarged and amended. The single modules could be used, amended or newly-created (the result will be version 1.1 or 2.0 etc.)In this way the exhibition increases during and after each presentation and will be completed with more (local) aspects, perceptions and experiences. The result will be – in a way – an European panorama of the basic income idea. A simultaneously organized online documentation allows everybody to follow the current status of the exhibition independently from his/her present residence.
The single modules should facilitate a preferably low-threshold access to the content as well as to the interactive interfaces. Playful and artistic elements as well as an exceptional display format offer an enjoyable occupation with the idea of a BASIC INCOME and inaugurates a new perception.
Besides a fundamentally academic attendance, the involvement of artists, cultural pedagogues and exhibition designers is requested.
The single modules of the exhibition could be f.e. blackboards, interactive recording areas (sound and images), computers, projections, playgrounds (for single and/or group players), but also temporary objects (f.e. a “moving object” with site and content tracking via gps, twitter, internet etc.). There should be no limitation of creativity.
“Rules of the game” will be determined for the responsible use of the modules and the content respectively the extension and transfer of the exhibition.
Topics of the exhibition respectively the modules could be social security and justice, automation and robotics, basic information about BI including different ideas of financing and implementation, current and planned pilot schemes, details and experiences of former efforts, subjective views of the BI, basic income as a cultural impulse or stimulus, visions and focuses for the own country etc.
Exhibition project in UBIE 