Hi good friends-- Florian once sent me an article about an architect and about how we got the notion in our western culture that Form follows function.
Rob Lehman, Chair of the Fetzer Institute, in the latest issue of the IONS journal Shift, raises the question that function can follow form, as it relates to groups: that the group (that is, the form) can stir up from the pot its truth and from that flows its action (function). So in my view it is a circle and you can jump in where form is creating the function. And why not, logically? Our house with its strange floor plan has changed how we work and live and we think for the better. Is this not what we see in groups? They come together as a collection (form) of individuals. Their work (function) going forward flows from that form. Then overnight--literally--they become one. And this seems to flow from their function (that is the announced topic, "Issues and Opportunities for..."), but also their function flows from their form--that is their coming together and how they come together. A circle from stirring the pot. :-Doug. Know any Have-Tos? * * ========================================================== 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