Dropping Knowledge
Dropping Knowledge (Engl. For creating knowledge / left ) is a non-profit organization that in summer 2003 the director Ralf Schmerberg , the filmmaker Cindy Gantz and activist Jackie Wallace was established with the aim of a global dialogue on the major issues to create the world. On the website of the project, questions have been collected which are aimed at an event called “Table of Free Voices” (English for “Table of Free Voices”). This round table took place on September 9, 2006 at Berlin's Bebelplatz with 112 celebrities at the largest round (or ring-shaped) table in the world with a diameter of 38 meters to answer 100 of these questions.
The answers were recorded, written down and - if necessary - translated into English. They should form the basis for a web-based discussion forum.
Prominent participants
- Yassin Adnan
- Martín Almada
- Udi Aloni
- Ekaterina Moshaeva
- Homero Aridjis
- Mohammed Arkoun
- Anthony Arnove
- Jwan M. Aziz
- Rodrigo Baggio
- Dedi Baron
- Mark Benecke
- Ana Lucy Bengochea
- Sihem Bensedrine
- Roland Berger
- Abbas Beydoun
- Andries Botha
- Kamal Boullata
- Tania Brugera
- Donato Bayu Bay Bumacas
- Gladman Chibememe
- Robbie Conal
- Bora Cosic
- Catherine David
- Hans-Peter Dürr
- Steve Earle
- Rachid ElDaif
- Sabiha El-Zayat-Erbakan
- Jodie Evans
- Benjamin driver
- Raymond Federman
- Giora Feidman
- Viviana Figueroa
- John Gage
- Ashok Gangadean
- Susan George
- Eddie Glaude
- Jonathan Granoff
- Jesper Green
- Nadja Halilbegovich
- Govindaswamy Hariramamurthi
- Mae-Wan Ho
- Lillian Holt
- Kigge Hvid
- Pico Iyer
- Bianca Jagger
- Bill Joy
- Dritëro Kasapi
- China Keitetsi
- Audrey Kitagawa
- Takashi Kiuchi
- Paul Knight
- Anuradha Koirala
- Song Kosal
- Michael Laitman
- Ervin László
- Yungchen Lhamo
- Fang Lijun
- Tegla Loroupe
- Geert Lovink
- Angaangaq Lyberth
- Sohrab Mahdavi
- Livingstone Maluleke
- Jerry Mander
- Neela Marikkar
- Fred Matser
- Jonathan Meese
- Mayank R. Mehta
- Valentina Melnikova
- Paul D. (aka DJ Spooky) Miller
- Anuradha Mittal
- Esther Mwaura-Muiru
- Helena Norberg-Hodge
- Oscar Olivera
- Vesna Pesic
- Mohau Pheko
- Leung Ping-Kwan
- Sydney Possuelo
- Eliane Potiguara
- Swami Pragyapad
- José Manuel Prieto
- Avi Primor
- Tungsten plaster
- Monira Rahman
- Lesego Rampolokeng
- Alvaro Restrepo
- Simon Retallack
- Stephanie Robinson
- Santiago Roncagliolo
- Masuma Bibi Russel
- Elisabet Sahtouris
- Masami Saionji
- Kailash Satyarthi
- Beverly Schwartz
- Norbert servos
- Mahsa Shekarloo
- Sulak Sivaraksa
- Tavis smiley
- Fernando Solanas
- Thenmozhi Soundararajan
- Timothy Speed
- Tamas St. Auby
- Jonathan Stack
- Pauline Tangiora
- Michael E. Tigar
- Oliviero Toscani
- Michael P. Totten
- Galsan Tschinag
- Benson Venegas
- Constantin von Barloewen
- Sima Wali
- Kurt Weidemann
- Do Wei-ming
- Eliot Weinberger
- Brian J. Weller
- Wim Wenders
- Cornel West
- Harry Wu
- Shaobin Yang
- Irina Yasina
- Sanar Yurdatapan
ask
The main part of the project are the questions gathered on the website. The main idea is that just asking the right question can start a global dialogue that can change the world for the better. Dropping Knowledge has currently gathered around 10,000 questions. These questions were rated for relevance to the Table of Free Voices .
"Living Library"
A forum has been set up on the project's website where the responses of the participants of the "table" can be discussed by visitors in order to encourage an ongoing discussion on the problems of humanity. Despite the naming, this forum has no relation to the concept of the living library .
documentary
At the end of 2010 Ralf Schmerberg published the documentary Problema , which summarizes the central questions and the answers of the participants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Web presence of the film Probema ( memento of the original from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.