Sorry for the delay, Harrison and all. I had not the time to read all the
post in this thread but I know that a lot of interesting suggestions have
been made on how to continue the conversations with Plexus. So, changing
the subject, I would like to make some lateral comments.
At 09:45 26-05-2003 -0400, Harrison Owen wrote:
(...) I also confess to a degree of frustration -- that to the moment, few
in the larger scientific community have taken any notice or interest in
Open Space. I think this is a lose/lose situation. We lose because their
insights and questions might reveal aspects of Open Space that we have
failed to notice. And I think they lose because, from where I sit, Open
Space is a wonderful natural experiment over time and in the present. Over
time, we have probably some 20,000 iterations of the "experiment" from
which to learn. Since most of us were more interested in the practical
results than "doing science" detailed accounts are hard to come by. but we
do have a network, and it does have a memory. And what we may have lost as
a matter of historical record can be replicated any time someone chooses
to open space.
I am more interested in the "research" ("action research", actually) that
we can do in this community of practitioners than in "academic (mostly
quantitative) research".
But in this community I think that we have a lot of exchange of help (which
is vary valuable) and some tales, more or less documented, about individual
OST events.
What I think that is still missing is to have real "case studies", not only
of separated events, but of organizations or communities that use OST
regularly (or at least during a long period). From those of you that
conduct regular follow up events, I would like to read about such meetings
and about the organizational transformation that followed (or not) the OST
meeting. And from those of you that have facilitated many events for a
single organization or community (or know about such situations), I would
like very much to read about the long-term transformations, namely, but not
exclusively, in the sense of those organizations becoming more
self-organized (or less constrained).
Are there some of you interested in this too that want to report on this?
Regards
Artur
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