Hi Diane and fellow space-holders! Thanks for the announcement about the French OST workshop.
Your use of the word "innovative" in describing OST caught my eye. I would venture that if OST is now drinking age in all countries where drinking is permitted, that perhaps it is no longer an "innovative" approach. I'd also venture that words like "innovative" and "new" are what I call FIV-infected- "flatland immunodeficiency virus" positive. They harken to a two-dimensionality of TV, advertising, etc. I'm not sure they're about Spirit. (Go Ken!) OST, as I understand it, has always been around, maybe we just didn't notice it. Harrison with the help of a thousand or so people did the noticing work for us. My hope is that more of us will start describing OST as a useful routine. On the other hand, calling it an "approach" is right on (hence FIV-negative). If the name of our now is "emergence" the implications for the nature of the tools we use is huge. I experience our social tools as melting, as fluid, and as what arises in the moment. "Approach" and "attitude" reflect that. My term for these approaches that act, talk, walk, and smell like tools but are really approaches is "non-tools." Kind of like "unconferencing"? My hope is that we will soon call our OST learning workshops (if we feel that people must learn in a workshop setting; which many I understand rightly have their doubts about) "remembering playspaces." Do I have the courage now to call what I offer a "remembering playspace"? Don't know. Let's keep turbocharging the granularity, raffi * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
