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The following three parameters are part of the ever-changing proposal of "meeting format" that the möte09 production team gives to the invited participants:

* Invitation
The participants are invited as individuals, with a unique knowledge and experience. They are not invited as "representatives" for an art form, a country, an academic position etc. We hope that this can bring about a possible setting that allows us to not necessarily having to refer to our "professional identity" or established position but rather to meet on a level of collaborative thinking/doing, to exist "outside" of one's everyday practice, to try other things and meet in other ways. One aim is to facilitate a milieu where we  are allowed to not reproduce what we would do "anyway", and a situation where we are always in a state of searching; through play, change, friction, "constructive conflicts of thoughts" and "reflection through doing". Additionally, the participants are asked to find ways of organising themselves during the meeting period.

* Proposal
The task of the participants is to share one or several "Proposals" with an audience.  When, in what manner and how many times, will be decided by the participants during the meeting. The participants inform the producers about when and how they want to invite to a public activity. The participants are free to choose whether they want to try out individual or collective proposals, and we are not specifically asking for a "collective entiny authorship" to the proposals. The Proposal also suggests that we can share things with an audience "before" we know exactly what it is we are proposing. (Also read Ingrid Cogne's and Johan Thelanders specific thoughts on the Proposal in the Keywords section)

* The Price of a Coffee
The participants must open the doors to their process to an audience, as many times as possible. This is called "The price of a coffee". During this (non)event, the meeting place functions as a public space, and the audience is invited to listen, question, come and go as they like. The setting for The Price of a Coffee is an attempt to share a process and meet/listen/be present without the feeling of having to present something in an official or formal manner, and not necessarily having to introduce or inform the visitors to what is happening, but simply open the doors and say Drop by!