Interesting question about democracy. There are some people working on this type of thing in Finland.
I stumbled upon an old William O Douglas paperback in the $1 stacks at Strand Books a few years ago. The title is "Points of Rebellion". The book was published in 1970. Basically, after all his years on the bench he was advocating opening all government meetings and processes to public participation and scrutiny as a way to bring real democracy to the US. He said this was the only way to change things here - eliminate all private deliberations in government. That solution of course would necessitate the retired and leisured being in public meetings all day, or, those of us who are busy at work all day, being in public meetings all night, which is very different from the way all our cultural and civic institutions are designed today and how we practice life. It is interesting his (or his publisher's) choice of the word "rebellion" to signify opening up government processes to the citizen's participation and oversight. I am not sure the OS community would necessarily view it that way. I contrasted this book to Eric Alterman's Kabuki Democracy that I read around the same time. He described how things really work in the legislative process in this country, despite what we have been led to believe about the principles behind our constitution. He focused on the closed-door designs of congressional committee processes as the real attractor factor in this dysfunctional system. This is important now that we all form a point of view about this issue. Maybe then there is a chance we can turn things around here. Constitutional Conventions to amend the constitution are in order. They can and should be informed by OS, not business as usual for these types of "democratic" processes as written into that constitution and reinforced by that court. Bravo! We remain hopeful by efforts like the ones Lucas is undertaking. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucas. I'm appreciating your fertile creative mind on the list. > > I'm also seeking into a somewhat related question to ask our list. What's > a design that supports people to inquire together into the practice of > democracy? While also supporting embodied practice of the basic capacities > of democracy? My answer is OS plus deep reflection on some specific > capacities and practices for participating in (and hosting) OS. > > It seems related, in my assumption that the way to learn OS is to be in > OS. And that there are simple and robust frameworks to support a systematic > reflection on our skills and capacities. I'm partial these days to the > "fourfold practice" in the art of hosting. > > A game? I've long loved a phrase of Harrison's describing OS: "high > learning, high play, primacy of spirit, and genuine community." Sounds like > a great game to me. I look forward to what you find. > > Jeff > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Lucas Cioffi via OSList > Date:03/08/2015 8:00 PM (GMT-07:00) > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: [OSList] The Online Game for Learning Open Space > > Hi All, > > I'm grappling with a design for a game. The purpose of the game would be > for us to teach each other Open Space using our own experiences and our > different perspectives. I believe that it's possible for us to transmit > our knowledge and experience by interacting through stories and games, but > I don't have the design finalized just yet. So I call upon the list! > > *Open question: How would you design a game for teaching OS?* > > I look forward to seeing everyone's answers to that question; I'll try to > actually built any of the suggested games that I can. Here's the direction > I'm headed so far. I'm looking for exciting ways to combine 1) online > flashcards with 2) online, small-group audio/video discussion. Here are > the components I've built but haven't integrated them into a unified game > concept yet: > > 1. A fun online flashcards app <http://dialogue.qiqochat.com/flashcards> > (please > check it out!) which builds upon on the great work of the Group Works > Pattern Language Project <http://groupworksdeck.org/download-invitation> (a > very dedicated and talented group of facilitators behind that project, by > the way-- several of them are probably on this list). > > 2. A tool for members of an online community to schedule highly > interactive breakout sessions on any topic, drawing inspiration from OST. > > This game will be one of the apps available for the Dialogue Community of > Practice on QiqoChat <http://dialogue.qiqochat.com/>. The community is > free for a year for the first 100 members, and $5/month thereafter. There > are 28 slots remaining as of today. I hope you are interested in joining > us there, and I look forward to hearing everyone's responses. > -- > Lucas Cioffi > Dialogue Community of Practice on QiqoChat <http://dialogue.qiqochat.com/> > Charlottesville, VA > 917-528-1831 > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >
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