A friend of mine, Rosemary Cairns has issued a call for papers which some of you might be interested in answering. See below:
The Association for Management Education and Development (AMED) Company no: 3005782, Charity no: 1043052 UK Registered office: 7-8 Roman Way, Godmanchester, Cambs. PE29 2LN www.amed.org.uk Your invitation to write for e-Organisations and People, Vol 20, No 1, Spring 2013 "Open source thinking: possibilities for 'yes . and' conversations" Another AMED/IAF Europe collaboration Are we in the midst of a paradigm shift? Is our society in the midst of a huge paradigm change in how we generate and use knowledge? Are we moving more away from proprietary thinking towards open source thinking, and from what Marjorie Kelly (2012) calls 'extractive' ownership, towards 'generative' ownership. Is this an indication of what Patrick Finn (Finn 2011) calls 'open source thinking', as he experiments with university courses based on 'yes . and' - rather than 'yes . but' - conversations? Think 'wikipedia', 'creative commons', 'open source software', 'the internet', the Open University, 'the commons', 'social media', university courses freely available online. These and other developments enable us to create and share what we know, while crediting the 'original' thinker(s). Are these developments shaping new ways of organising our thoughts and institutions? Links to IAF Europe's Annual Conference This year's conference, IAF Europe 2012, held in Geneva Oct. 3-7, celebrated the possibilities of diversity and connections between current thinking within IAF Europe and AMED. The theme of this edition assumes that open source thinking and diversity are interdependent. Diversity, open source thinking and facilitation For several decades, facilitators have been at the forefront of finding generative ways of allowing diversity to flourish in groups, while helping groups to move towards agreement and even consensus. Facilitation approaches like Technology of Participation, Open Space Technology, Future Search, Appreciative Inquiry, and Art of Hosting encourage "open source thinking" through forms of participatory process that provide order without imposing control from the top. Facilitators seek to draw upon and honour each and every contribution from group members, presuming that we all have wisdom to contribute. Facilitators see the possibilities of participatory process, even as some people wonder whether participatory decision making is robust enough to address the challenges of wicked public policy questions such as climate change and effective governance. ./over The Association for Management Education and Development (AMED) Company no: 3005782, Charity no: 1043052 UK Registered office: 7-8 Roman Way, Godmanchester, Cambs. PE29 2LN www.amed.org.uk Some possible inquiry questions As well as thinking about how 'open source thinking' is changing our society around us, we have been wondering about questions such as: How would we approach decision-making in an ideal participatory society? Has facilitation practice developed sufficiently to accommodate the various preferred approaches to thinking and decision-making? Can participatory process guide us to new societal relationships and institutions in an 'open source thinking' era? Can we afford not to draw upon and honour every possible contribution that is latent in collective approaches to building better futures? About e-Organisations and People (e-O&P) e-O&P is AMED's quarterly online journal, published in pdf format. For 25 years, e-O&P has been connecting the worlds of work, theory, ideas, innovation and practice by making new knowledge and original thinking available to developers, facilitators and their clients through persuasive writing. Call for expressions of interest: RSVP by 10 December 2012 If you are interested in contributing to the Spring 2013 issue of e-O&P, we'd love to hear from you. Please send each of us by 10 December 2012 a couple of paragraphs sketching your provisional ideas. We will then contact you to discuss your proposal further, and to brief you about a more detailed publication schedule. We're aiming to have ready by 4 January 2013, and the journal will be published online on 21 February. Articles are typically 1,500 to 3,000 words in length, and we encourage the use of headings, images, diagrams and live hyperlinks. References Finn, P. (2011). Loving Communication. TEDxYYC Talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8n0gLmL9M Kelly, M. (2012). Owning our future: the emerging ownership revolution. Journeys to a generative economy. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, Calif. http://www.marjoriekelly.com/books/owning-our-future Rosemary Cairns (IAF Europe), rosemary.cai...@iaf-europe.eu, http://www.iaf-europe.eu and Bob MacKenzie (AMED), bob_macken...@btopenworld.com, www.amed.org.uk Joint Editors Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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