Oh Lucas -- you are dreaming a dream I have dreamed for years. And we almost pulled it off. Here is the idea --
In most large dome stadiums they have a marvelous wide angle camera suspended from the roof. So we do a large Open Space in such a place and run the camera from start to finish. Let's say it was 2000 folks opening space around the future of education in their city over 2 days. We ask teachers to wear blue shirts, students red, parents yellow, general public green and so on. All the Open Space takes place on the stadium floor -- no breakout rooms, but rather break out spaces. Roll Camera! Then we get fancy. Compress the 16 hours of tape into 10 minutes. Fuzzy the pixles a bit, and play it back. Transformation! The individuals and groups now become flows of color. And if those flow patterns aren't fractal I'll eat my famous hat. Self organization rolling out before your eyes. Strange attractors doing their thing. Chaos and emergent order right before your eyes! And there is more. We write a little computer routine (actually it already exists) that can capture the individual colors (shirts)and measure the interactions. We would know who is in each group, where they were previously and where they went, who goes along with whom, etc. And we could cross corolate all that with what they were talking about specifically (the posted issues and the proceedings). Talk about big brother doing his thing! But Wow! Anyhow, it looked like we might really pull all this off in Seattle with the Kingdome. Unfortunately they tore it down before we could get all the ducks in a row. Ah but the dream was wonderful. And who knows, maybe someday . . . ? Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Lucas Gonzalez Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:31 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: research > Also, are there any research protocols out there? Or ideas that you > wish someone would research? I don't know if I've shared this small idea here, but one possibility might be to use webcams from above, so you may follow the behaviour of bumblebees and butterflies - all without distracting the actual persons who are doing their job. If you have a way to actually know a bit about "who is who" (maybe a hat or maybe ask them to look upwards once at the very beginning), then you would be able to correlate things like (official) status, interest, personality traits, success of the generated change, and what not. People's movements might be a bit like "brownian movement" (small particles within a liquid), of the kind Albert Einstein was said to think good things about. Actually, I think it was something along the lines of "temperature = movement". So that might be one thing to study. What other things would you like to do research about? I'd certainly like to know what happens *before* open space. Please keep research fun! Lucas ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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