Piraeus 2010 SDDP Training Seminar

Pireaus 2010 SDDP Training Seminar Project SDDP Facilitators Training School Place Amphitheater of Conferences, University of Piraeus Greece Date(s) 19 - 20 Feb 2010 Type of participants Students of the CSAP Program Number of participants xx Total Duration 2 Days (12 hrs) Link(s) Link(s) to press release(s)

The 2-day Seminar for the Structured Dialogic Design (SDD) Process took place in Piraeus, Greece between Friday 19th February 2010 (16:00 - 22:00) and Saturday 20th February 2010 (11:00 - 17:00). It was co-organized by Future Worlds Center and the Institute for 21st Century Agoras.

Focus of the school

It focused on the theoretical foundations of the science and included the Game, which enabled participants to re- discover the science. The Learning Goals have been defined as follows:

• The nature of complexity and the science of dialogic design;
• Structured Dialogic Design science architecture for addressing complex problems;
• Practical application: re-discovering the tree of meaning
• Using the CogniScope II software;
• Applying the CogniScope approach to real problems in your context;
• A virtual approach to Structured Dialogic Design.

Instructors

The following experts were engaged in the

• Prof. Aleco Christakis, Founder of Global Agoras and Father of the science of Dialogic Design.
• Dr. Yiannis Laouris, President of Future Worlds Center and member of the Board of the Institute of 21st Century Agoras.
• Prof. Nikitas Assimakopoulos, President of Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies.

Logistics

The Training School was organized by Prof. Nikitas Assimakopoulos in coordination with Yiannis Laouris and Aleco Christakis. The School took place at the premises of the University of Piraeus.

Participants

The Piraeus 2010 school was organized in the context of the CSAP program. The Training School committed to offer backdated (whenever the Scheme is completed) 1 credit towards the professional SDD Certification Scheme. The following individuals participated:

Name	Affiliation	Expertise	Country
Aleco Christakis	Institute for 21st Century Agoras and Future Worlds Center	Senior SDD Expert	USA
Yiannis Laouris	Future Worlds Center and Institute for 21st Century Agoras	Senior SDD Expert	Cyprus
Nikitas Assimakopoulos	CSAP, University of Pireaus	Academician, Systems Expert	Greece
Theofanis Giotis	CSAP student	Consultant, PhD Candidate	Greece
Lawrence Kalogreades	Future Worlds Center	Psychologis, Helpline Coordinator	Cyprus
Antonis Loizou	Future Worlds Center	Programmer/Analyst Hotline Coordinator	Cyprus