Hi Harrison, and thank you for the note. Have you been through a session or more with Mat and Gale? I'm curious about the environment and the role of the knowledge workers. A bright, colourful environment filled with colourful toys and relevant literature, walls covered with recent useful information, "radiant walls" that are like reverse-post-it notes (already lightly sticky so the paper doesn't have to be) seem as though they would enhance the OS experience. Now, whether they would add 5% to the experience or 50%, less or more, would be an interesting question, but additional useful information available would seem to open space?
Additionally, if the knowledge workers were there primarily as information sources (someone to look up the necessary bylaw to ascertain whether a project can go ahead on designated wetlands, for instance), it would seem that they would enable more people to be virtually in the room - obviously not the people who had the passion to be there, but perhaps subject matter experts who can provide critical information to direct the flow of action planning. If the KreW (as they call them) were intermediaries, facilitators of knowledge flow into the room and questions out of the room, it would seem that that would further "open" the space. Perhaps there are some really good ideas in DesignShops, and MG & Co. just went down the wrong alley? Is there nothing there worth saving? No way that OS can be informed by DS events? Glad to know you've looked into them - hopefully you've been to one or several and know the benefits/fatal flaws. I'd be very curious to hear more. Kind regards, Phil On Nov 15, Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Been there -- done that. Unless Mat and Gale have re-designed the Design > Process, it is about as open as a clam. Great folks, interesting ideas, but > emergent organization it ain't. Also used to be real hi-techie with all > sorts of bells and whistles run from a "Control Room". Get the picture? > > Harrison > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, Maryland 20845 > Phone 301-365-2093 > > Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com > Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org > Personal website <a href='http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm'>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen /index.htm</a> > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: > <a href='http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html'>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/ archives/oslist.html</a> > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Phil > Culhane > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:41 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: MG Taylor and DesignShop Events - a step on the OS continuum or > something completely different? > > Greetings - are any list members aware of the DesignShop process developed > by MG Taylor > Corp? From the reading I've done, in some ways they look like OST gone to > graduate > school, in other ways they look like something that's just completely > different. > > Anyone been there, done that? > > Thanks for any thoughts you care to offer. > > Phil Culhane > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > <a href='http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html'>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/ archives/oslist.html</a> > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > <a > href='http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist'>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a> > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > <a href='http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html'>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/ archives/oslist.html</a> > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > <a > href='http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist'>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a> > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
