Date: Thursday 24 September
Time: 10:00-12:30
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
Tickets: available here

Dissenting Decisions is a collective experience; a work-in-progress card game in which we share the pain and pleasures of working with others. A fictitious collective of cultural workers try out actions needed for their group to reach consensus. During the game they are faced with different decisions, while chance and event cards effect how they can communicate and what happens to their group.

Each player has a character card that details their social influence and attitude towards collective decision making. We shape one another in the process of group interactions.

Dissenting Decisions is open for all, but may be of interest for people involved with self-organisation and collective practices.

The game concludes with a communal lunch.

This event is part of After Summer School 2026, Het Nieuwe Instituut.

From 23 to 26 September, the After Summer School transforms Rotterdam into a classroom where a wide variety of makers, researchers and other knowledge producers share their ways of working.