Mage's Rhizome

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====== Introduction ======
  - introduction of the BRCP and its goals to guests
  - introduction of the workshop, the ideas and proposed topics: see notes below
  - introduction of participants


== Discussion Suggestions Florian ==
  - Who are "we": We are part of the BRCP, which means we are physicists (or mathematicians close to physics) and we are very critical with our "profession"
      * how fundamental is fundamental research today?
      * how free is the freedom of science?
      * is scientist as it is defined today a good job?
      * and especially, can science be done differently?
      * all these questions are fundamentally connected to the machinery that we are all part of and that we like to call "academia"
      * Thus it is almost inevitably to think science outside academia if we truly want to ask such questions
  - Who are you?
      * Introduction round for people to get to know each other
      * scientists meet artists (why is this interesting?)
  - Science outside Academia: We believe that the structure and organization of science influences strongly the way we do science
      *  we will NOT discuss specific scientific topics, but want to talk about its structure. (That's why we invited also non-physicists)
      *  when we relax the definitions of sciences that Academia sets, we will of course cross chances, but also many difficulties
        * what actually is science if not what a scientist at an institute does?
        * what is a scientist, if she or he does not have a contract from a scientific institution? \\ (for some people these question probably seem very simple, but believe us, the standard scientific apparatus never challenges these presumptions!)
        * if science and being a scientist could mean more than the tight definitions of academia allow for, can we do better outside academia?
        * can research be done differently then in Academia?
      *  this is what we want to discuss during this weekend and as a start we chose two perspectives: \\ session 1 - processes in research \\ session 2 - biographies in science
      * we reduced the predefined program to a minimum to give us a maximal freedom for spontaneous new discussion topics or whatever we together decide to do here
  - formalities:
    * documentation: this wiki
    * fee
    * coffee/tea etc
    * dinner
    * evening in Potsdam/Berlin?