Intimacy Encryption Workshop.

Participants: 6-100 (optimum 20)

Duration: about 90min

In an age of pervasive surveillance and persecution of truth 
tellers (eg: artists, journalists), achieving both personal 
and collective privacy requires some radical methods. 

Intimacy Encryption Workshop trains people in how to communicate 
securely face-to-face or over any media using nothing more than 
an ability to create intimacy with others. 

WORKSHOP BREAKDOWN:

PART I: How it is possible to speak in public or write over 
electronic media without others being able to understand what 
is being communicated ? Heath will explain the definition of 
spoken and written encryption, the technique relies on the 
sender and receiver possessing unique knowledge which they can 
refer to when exchanging messages. This unique knowledge is a 
form of intimacy and is easily created by spending some alone 
time together.

PART II: Then, each participant will pair up with people not 
previously known to them. The pairs then go off for 30 minutes 
to privately either exchange information they have never 
shared with other people before or by creating new situations 
to base new knowledge upon. For example, a pair can go for a 
walk and talk about things they see along the way that 
interest them.

PART III: On return, each pair is tasked with communicating a 
given word between them in front of the other workshop 
participants, without the audience being able to guess the 
word, by referring to their newly created code dictionary, 
consisting of everything the pair now have uniquely in common.