At 03:10 PM 10/8/2002 +0200, you wrote:
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From: Harrison Owen
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:50:45 -0400
.... there has been precious little research done of the sort you are
proposing.
Dear Harrison,
there have been 5 or 6 investigators at open space-projects that I have
facilitated. All of them have written their mastersthesis or something
like that (Diplomarbeit its called in German). Two of them conducted
intensive interviews along the lines that Kerry Napuk is
suggesting...during the event and at the follow up meetings. There has
been at least one sociologist that did an intensive study on open space
and the practise and theory of the marketplace, another researcher has
done extensive work on open space as an investigation tool in scientific
investigations, another on the use of open space in networking efforts.
I certainly know just of a small slice of these investigations in Germany
and would assume that there are dozends of such efforts completed and in
progress.
All of this is in German and I think some of the more theory-interested
colleagues from Austria/Switzerland/Germany that are also on this list
like Susanne Weber, Erich Kolenaty, Bernd Weber, Carol Maleh, Paul
Krummenacher, etc. could provide more information.
So its perhaps still precious little in the US but quite a bit in the
German speaking realm.
Greetings from Berlin with much respect for your "lazy person approach"
michael
I knew the Germans could be counted on! Actually there have also been
several dissertations (PhD level) done here in the US. So there is indeed
"something." But it has always seemed strange to me that there has not be a
lot more. With all the talk about, and interest in, self- organizing
systems, emergent organization, and the like -- OST would seem to be a very
natural laboratory.
Harrison
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