Dear Juliand,
aspects such as "time-slots" and other stuff around the Bulletin Board
and the Marketplace are very subtle.
I, for instance, never speak of "time-slots" but rather of the "starting
time" for a session and not about the time when it closes. And add a
little stuff about what might happen "when it is over" and "when it is
not over" in a breakout session. Actually I have done this in
conjunction with talking about "When its over/not over" (Vorbei/nicht
vorbei)... and also address, very briefly, the situation when you face
the next bunch coming into the breakout space and the bunch there is in
the middle of an issue.
And the "Whenever it starts is the right time" (Es fängt an, wenn die
Zeit reif ist) is also subtle. It has different connotations also in
different languages, I suppose, from "It starts when it starts / it ends
when it ends"...
Looking back to my beginnigs with os events in 1996 I see that we had
very structured Bulletin Boards, with the space outlined to fit exactly
the size of the paper (A3) that were provided for the issues... in fact,
you can see such a schedule on pages 73 and 74 in the Third Edition of
"Open Space Technology-A User's Guide" / 2008.
In "Meine open space Praxis" you see a Bulletin Board on page 97...
somewhat different.
Really different stuff and design turns up when folks can not read or
write... its all oral AND it fits the culture in that particular
situation that I heard about. Written stuff is very suspicious.
This is grand stuff to discuss at os on os OR at a Stammtisch, of course!
cheers
mmp
Am 11.04.2019 um 13:45 schrieb Juliane Martina Roell (Structure &
Process) via OSList:
Jake Yeager via OSList schrieb am 11.04.19 um 01:49:
I am intrigued by the fact that you do not use pre-determined
session slots. (...)
What do you find to be the pros and cons of having the participants
handle time and, I assume, space management?
One less thing to do for me. :o)
I also feel that in my contexts (mostly the German-speaking world),
people follow structure strongly: when a "slot" is 60 minutes, the
"session" that people put into the "slot" will most likely last 60
minutes. And it will end on time, because people have another "session"
to go to (which was put into a pre-defined "slot" earlier on).
"It starts when it starts / it ends when it ends" become somewhat empty
words.
By _not_ predefining "slots", I show people directly that *they can
decide how to spend their time - freely*. In the moment. change their
idea about what is important spontaneously. and so on. Pre-defined slots
often create a "program" for the day whereas an open schedule creates
much more flow, spontaneous changes, interesting conflicts and solutions
about space-usage... and most of all: more *initiative*. With open
schedule I see much more of "Oh, I have a new idea now; I will call for
a session immediately!" (goes to board, rings a bell) and much less of
"oh that was interesting, but the marketplace is already full and all
these other sessions are scheduled so I might wait and see and distract
myself..."
(And some people dislike these conflicts and the creativity and the
intensity that comes with that and go for more ease and efficiency, and
that may be perfectly valid depending on context.)
Another advantage is that people can create very tiny sessions to fix
problems. "I have this thing and I need ten minutes to..." And then
people show up and BOOM it's done, one problem solved, and more capacity
created to now work on other things. This never happens if all the
"slots" are 45, 60, 90 minutes long.
Love,
Juliane.
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