Chris--
What do these 500+ folks love to do? Can you take what they love and
turn that into an offer for how to make the space work?
You could create a circle without the table barriers by having people
turn their chairs around to face people at the tables behind them--when
they turn around, voila! No tables!
What Larry said about getting people away from the tables conjured up a
picture for me--like a dance party--an ever-growing "snake" line of
people threading their way amongst the tables, dropping off people to
individual circles.... If it does not work as is, this picture might
suggest something fun to someone on the list....
...Like maybe helium balloons with the topics attached and snaking
around the tables to gather participants....
:- Doug.
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:43 -0700, Chris Corrigan wrote:
> This is what I need guys...thanks for the wisdom, and keep it coming.
>
> You're never too old to be stumped, and never to experienced to ask
> for help!
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Esther Matte <ema...@excellence.ca>
> wrote:
> I’ve had a soft/fabric covered and we used both pins and blue
> 3M tape. I thought the tape wouldn’t hold, but it did!
> Throughout the whole day too!
>
>
>
> I’ve also had a stage, and used it as the newsroom. Worked
> wonderfully – nice overview of the room, good feeling of a
> “whole”.
>
>
>
> The tables are definitely a downer… but I would say trust the
> process. Instead of walking the circle, walk the tables. Take
> more time maybe and make sure you do a lot of eye contact.
>
>
>
> And if you do this with the tables, let us know the results
> and the feeling of it.
>
>
>
> If anything else comes to mind, I’ll send another message.
> Good luck and have fun too!
>
>
>
> Esther Matte
>
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>
>
>
> I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a
> situation like this. I'm stumped and looking for help.
>
> I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people. The
> client is completely unwilling to set the room in a circle.
> Instead, we will have 96 tables with 6 chairs at each table
> packed into a spacious but full ball room facing a stage. The
> walls of this room are incredible...they appear to be actually
> stuffed with cotton and covered in fabric. There is little
> hope of putting anything on the walls.
>
> On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly
> amount of technology available to play with for agenda setting
> and huge screen projection.
>
> I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at
> the moment I'm trying to put that all aside and figure out, in
> this worst case scenario, what is the best thing we could do
> to Open Space? Anyone been faced with similar constraints?
> Help me out here...
>
> All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little
> document on "what to do when nothing is what you need it to
> be" and we can share it out.
>
> OSLIST group mind...activate!
>
> Chris
>
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