Hi, Yaari and all -
Yaari wrote: hello os rockers, we made some good experience using strings and ropes for bulletin board, the principles the news wall etc. in situations where we were not allowed or able to use the walls. we did some open spaces outside in the woods, in the mountains or in (military) tents. you always find something to fix the strings to. we used fold back clips or wooden clips (the ones you use to hang clothes to dry - i m missing the english word) to hang most of the needed things. by now i have a marvellous collection of european and russion clips. at the moment i am working on a pdf reader on - open space in nature or in extreme situations - including pictures ... imagine a bullitin board hanging between the trees close to a mountain lake ... i will send you a link as soon as it is ready ... might take a while. Yaari, you are fabulous (anyway!). Your description reminds me of other circumstances where I have worked outside (lots of little rocks everywhere holding down paper, for example). And I remember someone (Michael P, was it?) shared with us some time ago about the agenda wall being the side of a bus that was driven up close to the meeting site. You reminded me about clotheslines, which I have used before but forgot about - and I love the idea of your collection of clothesline clips ;o) I also was teasing the planning team that we would all wear 'sandwich boards' - a flat surface that you hang on your front and your back and walk around with a big sign, like some people use to advertise? I pictured us all walking around with signs on us, even the agenda wall all moving around - made me smile. Talk about chaos theory and patterns. By the way, I also told this group to remember to dress casually, and then the planning team and I were sharing jokes about wearing costumes and wigs and such. A great group. By the way, for those of you who have not encountered this 'can't tape to the walls' challenge, we are also talking about making a false wall out of exhibit walls (the site does not have those) and PostIt flip chart pads that have a little sticky stuff at the top that some sites say is okay even if they don't like tape. But those pages sometimes fall off the wall if it is hot or humid or if you tape too many topics (or whatever) signs on them - depending on the surface of the actual wall being used. Thanks for this great brainstorm (or thought shower, as I recall Gil Benson Lazan says is the term sometimes used in South America) - I welcome all your ideas and delight in how we all learn so much from one another, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e <mailto:lisah...@openingspace.net> lisah...@openingspace.net <http://www.openingspace.net> www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== 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