Production was a central orientation in Robin Murray’s practice, and 'formacion' was a significant variant of this - especially in the latter part of his life, with **Synergia**, **Schumacher College** & **the Coop University**. But it's not something he addressed much on the page. This chapter makes an attempt at that.
This text is the script for a 14 min video YouTube 
The video is animated, and I suggest it may be easier to understand than this version on the page.
YOUTUBE ivjCr5_1xHc Formacion. Activist literacy. A dance of knowing : LSE 29 Nov 2019 : 14 min
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Production was a central orientation in Robin’s practice, and 'formacion' is a significant variant of this. He was involved in formacion throughout his life - earlier, educating new leadership cadres in post-colonial states, throughout at IDS, in his last decade with **Synergia**, **Schumacher College** & **the Coop University**. But it's not a practice he addressed much on the page. This chapter makes an attempt at that.
Both formacion and making the living economy must skilfully interweave practical things in what I'll describe as **three landscapes** - the material, the cultural and the aesthetic. The three landscapes - material, cultural, aesthetic - necessarily interweave, but they call for quite distinct kinds of recognition and handling. Formacion is primarily a practice of cultural production.
Here we expand Cook and Brown's basic schema, to consider four kinds of literacy in the dance of formacion. In each dimension there are relations of production - and **altered relations of production**. It's the RoPs that determine what the scope of the practice might be.
We'll consider five modes of producing scope. These contributions to scope are related to dimensions of 'the dance of knowing', which we already considered. In other words, what the activist dance of knowing in formacion *does*, through weaving cultural formations under altered RoPs, is **produce scope**.
Brief wrap-up of the presentation