Harrison and all, I see you like the idea - because it was already in your mind well before I wrote my small and crippled version. :) So why wait for a BIG OS to do it? Yes, I think a BIG one would be a lovely thing to watch. There could be a video on the internet so people may actually "see". It would make its way to many practitioners' "selling suitcase", I guess.
Just recently I read a quote - hang on - where was it? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/402 yes, here's the quote: >"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is >experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior." >Marshall McLuhan quoted in The Media Lab, by Stewart Brand So yes, I'd like to *see* such a video, mp4 or whatever, perhaps side by side with the worldmap of OS practitioners (where I can't put myself in because I'm no practitioner yet, tsk, tsk!). Maybe a webcam hanging from the ceiling would do, and to try it out there's no need to have people wear colored shirts. Hey, you may have to tie the portable computer with some rope (just be careful with your health first and with the computer second) if webcams don't have such long cables. A virtual Bravo to the first that does it and shares! Lucas --- Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> escribió: > Oh Lucas -- you are dreaming a dream I have dreamed for years. And we > almost > pulled it off. Here is the idea -- > > In most large dome stadiums they have a marvelous wide angle camera > suspended from the roof. So we do a large Open Space in such a place > and run > the camera from start to finish. Let's say it was 2000 folks opening > space > around the future of education in their city over 2 days. We ask > teachers to > wear blue shirts, students red, parents yellow, general public green > and so > on. All the Open Space takes place on the stadium floor -- no > breakout > rooms, but rather break out spaces. Roll Camera! > > Then we get fancy. Compress the 16 hours of tape into 10 minutes. > Fuzzy the > pixles a bit, and play it back. Transformation! The individuals and > groups > now become flows of color. And if those flow patterns aren't fractal > I'll > eat my famous hat. Self organization rolling out before your eyes. > Strange > attractors doing their thing. Chaos and emergent order right before > your > eyes! > > And there is more. We write a little computer routine (actually it > already > exists) that can capture the individual colors (shirts)and measure > the > interactions. We would know who is in each group, where they were > previously > and where they went, who goes along with whom, etc. And we could > cross > corolate all that with what they were talking about specifically (the > posted > issues and the proceedings). Talk about big brother doing his thing! > But > Wow! > > Anyhow, it looked like we might really pull all this off in Seattle > with the > Kingdome. Unfortunately they tore it down before we could get all the > ducks > in a row. > > Ah but the dream was wonderful. And who knows, maybe someday . . . ? > > 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 http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives > Visit: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of > Lucas > Gonzalez > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:31 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re: research > > > Also, are there any research protocols out there? Or ideas that > you > > wish someone would research? > > I don't know if I've shared this small idea here, but one possibility > might be to use webcams from above, so you may follow the behaviour > of > bumblebees and butterflies - all without distracting the actual > persons > who are doing their job. > > If you have a way to actually know a bit about "who is who" (maybe a > hat or maybe ask them to look upwards once at the very beginning), > then > you would be able to correlate things like (official) status, > interest, > personality traits, success of the generated change, and what not. > > People's movements might be a bit like "brownian movement" (small > particles within a liquid), of the kind Albert Einstein was said to > think good things about. Actually, I think it was something along > the > lines of "temperature = movement". So that might be one thing to > study. > > What other things would you like to do research about? I'd certainly > like to know what happens *before* open space. > > Please keep research fun! > > Lucas > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, más seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 > ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! 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