| CENTERLEO APOSTEL Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
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At its last meeting the CLEA-council decided to work towards the formation of CLEA study groups. The purpose is to involve the group of growing CLEA collaborators in a structure through which they can all participate actively in the overall CLEA project. I am sending you this text about these CLEA study groups so that you can reflect on it and send me your suggestions and comments. Please direct your comments and suggestions to my personal mail address (diraerts@vub.ac.be), whence we shall try to make a summary to be distributed via the mailing. Some CLEA groups are already in the process of formation, but the idea is that your suggestions should lead to an optimal network of well-run study groups. Please include in your reactions mention of any CLEA group you would like to be involved in, as well as making suggestions for other possible themes for CLEA groups.
The CLEA groups are not just discussion groups. Each CLEA group is supposed to work towards a concrete purpose, which in most cases will be a publication. This purpose may, however, also be a performance, a project or a collaboration or some other concrete output to be defined by the group itself. In about one year, depending on the dynamics generated by the different CLEA groups, CLEA will publish a book for an international forum, with the results from the different CLEA groups.
The responsibility for each CLEA group is in the hands of one or two or possibly three CLEA-collaborators, who will organise the regular meetings of the group and see that short proceedings of the results of the group are written and distributed regularly to all CLEA groups. CLEA offers the possibility of an electronic mailing list for each CLEA group that would like to communicate and even discuss in this way, and the distribution of the written texts can also be optimalized by the same electronic means. The activities and results of each CLEA group will also be announced on the www, so providing another way by which each CLEA group can be informed easily of the working of the other groups. Apart from the practical purpose of the publication of the CLEA-book, members of a CLEA group are encouraged to work towards joint international publications in international journals.
On a regular basis, and this might be combined with the disussion periods following the main CLEA seminars, the different CLEA groups will meet and keep in contact. After a short period of activity the CLEA groups will put forward some general and fundamental questions and problems to be investigated by each CLEA group. These basic problems and themes should generate a dynamic within which each CLEA group participates in the overall CLEA project. CLEA groups are not intended to be isolated units: the idea is that different CLEA collaborators participate in different CLEA groups, both those from which they can learn and those in which they can put forward their experience. CLEA groups can be temporary and a new group can be set up at any time, in line with the needs of the overall CLEA project.
CLEA groups and persons responsible for them that were proposed during the CLEA-council meeting of 20/5/96:
1. Science and art Marc Demey and Ernest Mathijs 2. The emergence of social structures Bert Martens, Francis Heylighen and Dirk Aerts. 3. Ecology Willy Weyns 4. Science, society and law Serge Gutwirth and Jan Dankaert 5. Post-modernism en the problem of synthesis Eric Rosseel 6. Music as science and art Bob Coecke 7. Politics and society Eric Corijn 8. Cosmology and origins Edgar Gunzig 9. Feminism and the origin of structural violence Linda Dasseville 10. Non-European worldviews Tina Verraes 11. Foundations of the positive sciences Dirk Aerts 12 Dissemination of knowledge and science Jan Van Pelt