Thanks to my increasing myopia (doubtless due to sins past and present) I did in fact miss the URL. small print! is the root of all evil!! But I love you Funda!!!
And Michael -- you captured my feeling exactly when it come to events like this. Doubtless it will be a marvelous show, but as an advance of real knowledge, and more importantly the application of that knowledge, I rather think it will come up short. The "Expert Syndrome" one more time. Old joke about the definition of "expert" -- "a has been under pressure." Some truth there, I think. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (summer) website www.openspaceworld.com Personal Website www.ho-image.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael M Pannwitz To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:12 AM Subject: [Fwd: Re: an interesting meeting in Berlin] Dear list, yesterday, I did send the note below to ho who had not discovered the link and entered my esteemed opinion on this project. Its in the local Berlin paper again today with a long report on how they are creating two setups, one indoor for rain and one outdoor for sunny weather...its quite a huge table coated with a very fancy and expensive material that can also be written on...they have already approached the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest round table ever...and I wouldnt be surprised if they cut it up in pieces and auction it off as they did with other local objects like the Berlin Wall....and, of course, there is going to be a video where you can see all of them simultaneously answering questions... To me this is a good example for the paradigm "Experts solve Problems" (Taylor, Scientific management)which dominated the art between 1900 and 1950, followed by a phase of "Everybody solves Problems" (Group Problem Solving, Lewin etc.) which in recent years, under the influence of Systems Thinking, has been changing since 1965 into "Experts improve whole systems" and, more recently, with the development of approaches such as Open Space, Future Search, etc., into "Everybody improves whole systems". I dont think that an approach long shown to be useless for the challenges we are facing now improves through technology that makes it available instantaneously, worldwide... Still, its a fascinating show that definitely is marketed in an effective mode... So, for me its back to practicing Open Space Technology! Greetings from Berlin mmp -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: an interesting meeting in Berlin Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:18:25 +0200 From: Michael M Pannwitz <mmpa...@boscop.de> To: Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net> References: <00ec01c6cf96$7c0ba5e0$0201a8c0@fundao0ngpntt7> <002601c6cfaa$86112ba0$b2f13018@holaptop> click on the link she supplied, its a little hard to see for old men like me it was in the local Berlin paper today and I consider it to be a fabulous piece of bullshit, especially since they definitely forgot to include THIS great mind Tables have been out for some time... Greetings from Berlin mmp Harrison Owen wrote: > OK Funda. You are indeed the "mystery woman." No more mysterious than > now. . . What interesting meeting in Berlin???? > > ho > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > 301-365-2093 > 207-763-3261 (summer) > website www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com> > Personal Website www.ho-image.com <http://www.ho-image.com> > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Funda Oral <mailto:fundao...@ttnet.net.tr> > *To:* osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > <mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> > *Sent:* Sunday, September 03, 2006 4:21 PM > *Subject:* an interesting meeting in Berlin > > http://www.droppingknowledge.org/ > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > <mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> > ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change > your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > <mailto: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 * * ========================================================== 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
