Doug-- Don't remember for sure, but I think that we used butcher paper to capture random comments at the Mason County Idea Fair, a series of 4 annual community goal-setting events. At the Creative Problem Solving Institute, one year someone put up butcher paper on the wall in the floor lounges of all the dorms we were using, with wonderful results--comments, pictures, "Creativity Cancels Age." I've done it at various kinds of meetings. Been in an Open Space or two where someone taped big sheets of paper on the floor in the center of the circle on the last evening, added pens and crayons--I have some lovely pictures of people on the floor, adding their words and drawings to a lovely OS mandala.
I also often put an extra flip chart paper on the wall to record comments or questions that are important but not timely at the moment they are brought up--a "holding area" so people's concerns are not forgotten. I also sometimes ask people to draw instead of write about something we are working on, and post those on the walls. The graffiti wall idea is just to put up a long sheet of paper and invite people to write whatever. You capture a lot of random thoughts that the writer does not consider important enough (or mainstream enough) to add to the official record. For a planning event, you can specify thoughts or pictures of possible futures. Thanks for the question-- Joelle * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
