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LaTableRonde (LTR) is a forum for the discussion of contemporary social and cultural issues. LTR organizes six un-moderated roundtable discussions that provide 30 participants the opportunity for informal intellectual exchange on a pre-arranged topic in pre-defined timeframes of 90 minutes. Each roundtable consists of 20 people invited by the prompter who frames the topic and 10 people invited by CPI. No one is introduced or informed of the identities of the participants at each roundtable so that the topic of discussion is not compromised. Last year we had 126 participants attend five such events. While these sessions are recorded and transcribed, the material is not posted electronically; instead, it is distributed to participants with the instruction that they should feel free to share the information with others by means other than electronic communication. Our view is that the way the information is shared — via interpersonal exchanges — is vital to maintaining the integrity and value of the process and content. This is because the outcome of an LTR are the ideas and concepts that each participant helped to formulate, contributed to, and acquired through the means of exchange itself. Because of the portability of the format, we believe that LTR is an exemplary model that others can emulate. Reciprocally, because participation in an LTR session is by invitation only, we cannot measure our larger influence except to note the increasing number of informal requests that we have received from individuals wishing to be invited, and the propensity for the LTRs to encourage ongoing engagement and exploration, one result of which has been the emergence of a secondary level program,WorkGroup.
An offshoot of LTR has been the formation of the WorkGroup program. Currently, we have two active WorkGroups. The first consists of architects, artists, and writers who came together after LTR 1.2: On Architecture and Performativity. The second, which was generated by LTR 1.5: On Social Practices, consists of artists, community activists, and veterans of the Arts and Labor working group from Occupy Wall Street. WorkGroup is CPI’s apparatus for building networks and engaging in short and long-term ad-hoc collaborative projects. CPI’s participation in WorkGroups (meetings, events, or activities) is through facilitators. In all matters the workgroup is autonomous and free to disband or sever their ties with CPI as they see fit. Unlike our core programs, WorkGroups have no mandated format or objective in principle but are committed to pursuing avenues of production capable of proposing, debating, and actualizing new social standards, values, and criteria.
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