Thanks Peggy. Did they also refer to it as OST? Blessings,
Birgitt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peggy Holman Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:26 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] OST - Open Systems Thinking Birgitt, The term open systems theory was used by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the 1950's. Emery and Trist started using the term in the 1960's. Peggy On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Birgitt Williams wrote: Looking deeper into the website, Artur, it is not at all clear who these people with OST (Open Systems Thinking) are. What they have at one point in their documents, however, is an article by Emery about Open Systems Thinking with reference that it is OST. I find this odd because Emery, also a highly regarded thought leader in organizational development, is well aware of OST as Open Space Technology. Ah well. As Harrison says, OST is not trademarked. However, all of his books including Open Space Technology are copyrighted (also a legal designation). And despite the copyrighting, it is not worth defending as OST is out there sufficiently in the world as Open Space Technology already. One reason that I am such a stickler about using 'Open Space Technology' rather than the shortened form 'Open Space' is that there is even more confusion about 'Open Space' as applied to this meeting method since Open Space as a term was used long before OST came along.especially in architecture and landscape architecture. I think that the more we all are careful about mentioning 'Open Space Technology', the more that there is a common recognition of a fabulous meeting facilitation method. Birgitt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harrison Owen Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:45 AM To: 'Artur Silva'; 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' Subject: Re: [OSList] OST - Open Systems Thinking Never heard of them. Thank God I never patented or trademarked OST. Just imagine all the trouble I would be in defending the indefensible - or something. Much more fun just to give it all away. And you certainly meet incredibly interesting people J ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Artur Silva Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 9:52 AM To: OSLIST New Adress Subject: [OSList] OST - Open Systems Thinking Hi: Have any of you ever heard about this? OST - <http://www.thelightonthehill.com/> OPEN SYSTEMS THINKING: <http://www.thelightonthehill.com/> http://www.thelightonthehill.com/ Interesting... Regards Artur _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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