Michael ... I think it is a superb idea, and to the best of my knowledge, it has never been done. But I pretty sure there isn't a university on the planet that would have the guts to try it. I would love to be proved wrong, but in the meantime it seems to me that every person in the world has a superb opportunity. At a time of their choosing, and a place of their comfort, they may open the space for sharing and caring about something of importance. I think that is called Learning. Were universities to do more of it...
Harrison -----Original Message----- From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Wood via OSList Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 10:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSList] Interdisciplinary Research dreaming A few years ago I was invited by a learning and development company to facilitate a weekend of Open Space for the whole company, on the question of 'New Business Development ideas for..'x' company'. It was an incredibly creative and fun weekend in which many ideas were floated and talked about. Towards the end, one or two key ideas distilled out, which the group was willing to put further time into and which the company directors thoughts was a viable business proposition to invest more time in. The idea went on to make millions of dollars for the company. The directors were pretty happy about the return on investment from taking their entire staff away for two days. What would happen if someone in a university were to sponsor an interdisciplinary dreaming day on 'new research possibilities', which enabled people to float out their wackiest and most exciting emergent ideas (one's which perhaps are just a 'flicker') - and allow the miracle of self organisation to enable cross disciplinary conversation to occur (poets asking questions of engineers (and visa versa); business school leaders asking questions of marine biologists (and visa versa). Is anyone aware of this having happened in any university in the world? If so, can you refer me to the person who organised it or facilitated it. I've love to have a conversation with them. Michael Wood Univerisity of Western Australia [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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 Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] _______________________________________________ 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 Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
