Hi Kári,
Thank you for making your proposals. They are very interesting!
Daniel
On 11/20/14 6:34 AM, Kári Gunnarsson via OSList wrote:
There is an invitation to some scientific rigor for our beloved
technology. I propose we accept this invitation as a communal effort.
An idea for a trial design would be to collect survey data where the
nuances of the lived experiences would be teased out, survey data
collected by cooperation among our grand Institutes and access given
to unaffiliated researchers to collect some understandings and make
their own conclusions in publishable science papers. It will probably
be far too difficult, even impossible the task of building of such
survey database along with the standardized questioners. And the time
to build it was sometime long ago, we are long past out do time. There
is urgency to this task. But do we have to do it? Well, is there a
real need for this approach? I think we can host this endeavor, even
try to find a design that allows for a Double-blinded rigor. My vision
is that we design standardize and publish a survey that we then allow
events to use to collect data for us, data that we then give to
researchers where they can use it for their publishing needs. There is
also the Pandora's Box of issues and opportunities. It looks like it
is a topic ripe for an open space, "be prepared to be surprised".
The new late majority folks are going for the theme of "participatory
processes" and request an overview over the landscape. It is the new
gathering pole and open space is central for me in this arena as it is
less controlling that other processes. Perhaps tour rigor should be
part of a broader sense of analyses under the more general heading of
participatory processes.
But perhaps when we look at Open Space, then we must use the same type
of analyses as when we look at research approaches, like when we look
at the difference on Double-blinded procedure done by WHR Rivers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._R._Rivers and earlier research
procedures.
A resent story on "time to think", two weeks ago I facilitated a short
3 hour open space for a local branch of a political on their internal
operations. There were also a lot of other things happening before and
after the conversation part of the program, some football fans even
disappeared during the open space to see the ongoing game. Personally
I was happy that we had the lunch before the open space, I took some
time for reflection and thinking about the possible dream future and
topics that make us show up for the work. Then reflection and lunch
was served, a lot of chatter during the soup lunch, then back to the
introduction of principles ... "Whatever happens is the only thing
that could have, be prepared to be surprised!"... democracy of the
feet / the law of mobility, the bugs and what they give us. Then brake
for topics. ... It was short time and a lot of conflict of attention
by the sponsors for the other parts of the day program, but it worked
out well. The passion for work and the freedom of this technology
opened for topics and responsibility that had previously been
submerged by the tyranny of long speeches and lectures. Give a little
time and then open up some space, works each time given the preconditions.
In openness,
Kári the group coach
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