One other thought occurred to me...how about enlisting 500 people in
moving the tables out? Gives them some exercise and clears the air
after the speaker.
Peggy
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On Apr 1, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Michael Herman <mich...@michaelherman.com>
wrote:
thinking a bit more about this... canadian tables or any of these
other options already mentioned for creating a wall will certainly
be workable. so thinking again about the tables as the primary
obstacle, i think i can say the tables thing a little clearer than
yesterday.
if... you make a wall someplace, get everyone to look at you, wander
around the tables, open heart, opening briefing, come post your
topics on the wall...
then... create the grid such that there are 96 breakout spaces and
your (three, did you say?) timeslots. you know there won't be 300
topics raised, but no matter. let the tables be the gathering
points. some groups of just the right size will meet at the
tables. the rest of the groups, large and small will swallow or
slip between or push around the tables to suit themselves. you know
a group of 500 will carry away anything that truly is getting in its
way.
so the tables will waste a lot of space, and a pad or two of post-
its. other than that, it's business as usual.
incidently, the cafe thing i did last weekend was 20 tables of 5-6
in a very cozy arrangement and so the closing plenary was a 120-
person huddle, with 20 tables mixed in, rather than any sort of
circle. worked great. felt great. not sure how 500 in plenary
huddle will work for figuring out who talks next, but i suppose
that's rationed with having only a few microphones. probably
important to have not too much lining up at the microphone or the
commenters stop listening to each other and the comments
disconnect. airplane restroom rules, i suppose, no lines.
anyway, seems you can get them darned close and the crowd will
handle the rest.
m
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jack Ricchiuto
<j...@designinglife.com> wrote:
One of the OS themes here has been and will continue to be good uses
of technologies to facilitate everything open space. And as a
shameless daily twitterer and process designer, I remind myself
often how the quality of our energy as inviters and conveners is
always more important than anything. It is our spirit that calls
forth the hearts of others into new conversations that deeply
connect, reveal, heal. At the beginning and the end of the day, it's
all about the listening we invite. The listening ...
With gratitude, Jack
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DesigningLife.com
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <ra...@bk.ru> wrote:
chris,
as for the walls challenge, might the discovery of our future search
friends
from a few years ago be of value here?:
the use of foamcore boards to create instant walls for posting
flipchart
paper wherever you are.
perhaps the FS people onlist or others familiar with the generative
wonders
of foamcore can chime in here...
greetings from the southern suburb of tehrangeles,
raffi
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