Something new?

[Diane Gibeault]

Hi Ralph,

In Brazilia last June, we opened the space in a circular room (what a treat
for an Open Space!). Topics were posted on pannels. Then after people chose
their topics and were in the first round of discussions, we moved the
pannels to a large hallway of a nearby building where all the break out
rooms and coffee tables were. No problem for participants to adapt. For
Evening New, we went back to the circular room.

People were so excited about the self-organization and passionned about
their topics, the physical arrangements were quite secondary.

Diane
  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Joelle
Lyons Everett
  Sent: 7 janvier 2007 00:38
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: Re: Something new?


  Ralph--

  I've been in the situation where the circle of chairs was jammed against
the wall, and I'm sure your solution worked better than mine.  We had the
additional challenge that we were in a brand-new resort hotel, the walls had
just been painted, and they wanted nothing taped on any of the walls.  We
ended up with permission to use Post-It paper on a folding partition (not
painted) that divided the space we were using into two rooms.  The other
half of the room was used for food service and breakout space,

  We used the room with the circle only for coming together and newsroom,
not as a meeting space.  The good part was that there were very few guests,
so we had permission to hold breakout sessions anywhere we wished, including
a huge lobby with a central fireplace and clusters of overstuffed chairs, a
nice mezzanine that overlooked the lobby but felt very private, and around
the pool and hot tub.  And those of us who were there overnight were given
discounts on all the spa services, massages and herbal baths and facials,
plus free swimming inside in hotspring water.  Very nice.

  My experience is that if people are allowed to self-organize, they adapt
very quickly to challenges like being asked to post things in the other
room, or a shortage of breakout spaces.

  Joelle




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