hi, list, give me welcome. I want to give a short report about the open-air open!space which took place at vienna the 29. september facilitatet together with Erich Kolenaty. I`m a german freelance consultant. My interest and my experience on LGI goes back to the early seventies when I`ve been member of the quickborner team /metaplan as communication-designer. later I worked together in a lot of projects with my friend michael m pannwitz. recently I`ve got training on open!space by Harrison on his workshop at Berlin and training on Future Search on the the workshop given from Marve and Sandra at Potsdam. By the way: I offer to all the oslist the exclamation mark between open and space, as I use it to point to the aspect of invitation: let´s open space ! = open!space. now please read my report.
hi, list and listeners, please remember the question "is this still open-space or what" which had been asked from erich kolenaty, vienna, the 21.09.99. Thanks, dear birgitt bolten for your encouraging answer on that question. today I want to give a short report about that open!space, which took place the 29.september at vienna. (I offer to all of you the exclamation-mark between open and space , as I use it to show the character of invitation: let´s open space!) The context: At vienna all over that summer every wednesday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. took place an open-air-meeting in a public park on behalf of "Bridges for Peace". NGO´s, writers, artists offered their ideas to an everytime changing audience of about 40 to 100 people including some 30 as every time the same people taking part on every meeting. All meetings had been realised as frontal-presentation with following discussion with the audience. The organising is mainly done of a single women who is the heart of all that, basing on the facilities of a NGO called "SOS-fellow-creature". The final event of the open-air summer-events, which I facilitated as open!space together with erich, has been planned to harvest the energy of the summer-events for activities in the city over the wintertime and to enable the audience as actors. The conditions: open air in front of and round a closed (greek-temple)-building, in public open to the parksituation, starting at dusk going ahead with few artifical light, the surrounding parc in darkness, the farer surrounding city full of sounds, total time 3 hours including 25 minutes song-music at the beginning and 25 minutes at the end, 40 people at the beginning sitting within the circle, 25 curious people from the public staying beyond the circle, further 20 walking around. How it run: song-music of a band situated beyond the circle // children building bridges (for peace) with their bodies within the circle // opening the circle: the theme, the givens, the four principles, the law (problems with the micro) // explanation of the going-on and once more(! )further explanation of the principles // for the issues we put clip-boards with 2 sheets of paper: 1.sheet: name and issue, 2.sheet: prepared guide-sheet for the report of the group // 9 issues for agenda // instead of bulletin-board: every author of an issue repeats once more his/her issue and gather his/her interested group: 9 issues // 1 session group-working round the temple (we as facilitators offered hot tea at the group-places during the session) // 6 handwritten reports on prepared guide-sheets, which will be sent afterwords to the participants // a short spoken report of every group within the closing circle // 3 speaches and bunches of flowers as gift of participants to honour the lady who run all the activities all over the summer // final music performance. Our experience: the conditions of the shortness, of the public situation, of the darkness, of the open-air make it very important to prepare the technics in a perfect way: to give two hours more time to the preparation, to explain every step about the process in an extreme clear manner. Thanks god, which means thanks to the informal and partly chaotic structure of the organizer at the end all worked well. It needed all our energy to hold and to concentrate the energy under that conditions. It had not been possible at the end to practice the closing circle in the manner of talking stick, which I think to be an essential. About the ripples: (Beside that question needs a fardistance-view) Basing on that new experience the organizer is already arranging meetings as well as open!space within the entrance-hall and the cafeshop-area of the local radio-station of Vienna in continuation to the subject of "bridges for peace". Next date is the 20th of december to the subject: "Are we loosing reality ?" Fon-contact: Helga Köcher 0043.1.5862345 Stay open. Please put me on the OSLIST. Florian Fischer
