Our happy days

C.Re.S.Co. is a national coordination that gathers and represents more than 200 promoters: artists, professionals, facilities and festivals that use the new languages of the scene.For the Cresco 2024 Assembly that took place in Prato on October 1 and 2, 2024, mooncult worked with the board with a view to designing and creating a horizontal space of openness, sharing and exchange. The primary intent that guided the facilitation of the two days was to let urgencies, needs and questions about happiness find the right conditions to emerge spontaneously. That is why we have chosen as our primary methodology that of Open Space Technology (OST), a technique that inherently carries with it the principle of freedom as the regulator of collective space: 4 principles and one law govern a co-created space in which the lineup is generated together and every voice and every thought can find its place of “rightness.” Each participant is implicitly asked a question about where to stand and for how long. The time and space of being acquire a different connotation in this setting, more driven by inner intention than outer structure.

The next day, the work of the tables to arrive at the decalogue point was built step by step with the board and coordinators with the intention of outlining a possible path of meaning that would facilitate reflection, but leaving the groups free to choose their own path to arrive at the result. A metaphor guided the process: the rose with its buds, roses and thorns became the ground for reflection around which to generate seeds for the future.