Open Space with Architects?

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Andrew and you others interested in architects/urban design/etc.,
I will not tire of pointing you to the rapidly developing data base of 
open space events.
Here it is
> http://www.openspaceworldscape.org/

Patience, this thing is heavy and needs 3 seconds to come up.
In the upper right hand corner you see
deutsch (that stands for german)-english
whatever is your cup of tea or brew of beer.

Then, click on "select field/sector" at the right hand side where it 
says "search".
Scroll down to
"community organisation"
and choose the sub-field
"urban and regional planning"
Hit "start search", gently, right!

Now, when I do that 9 events pop up.
Three in Belarus, one in Canada, one in Bonn (the former capital of the 
Federal Republic of Germany, planning the area around their central 
station), and several others in Germany. The one in the City of 
Oranienburg (a place near Berlin where they defuse bombs from the second 
world war every week! a hazard when building there)involved architects, 
urban planners, landscape architects and children (some adults, too) 
that designed a large area along the local river involving three schools 
a public housing project, local industry, etc.
If you click on the small arrow in the upper right hand corner, you get 
more info on each event with as much information as people who enter the 
events are interested in making public.

As more of you register in the worldscape and enter events (soon the 
worldscape will feature new stuff and will be easier to handle) the more 
easily you will find material and will be able to answer your or the 
questions of potential sponsors.
Now there are 27 facilitatore out of an estimated 10 000 world wide with 
a total of 353 events listed out of an estimated 30-40 thousand.
So there is lots of space to improve and expand.

For those of you still with me, let me point you to the latest entry in 
the worldscape. Click on "select Open Space faciliator", scroll down to 
"Harrison Owen" (right, the fellow with the Australian hat), click on 
his name and than on "start search". One event pops up. Patience, more 
will follow. But this event is very well documented.
Still with me? Ok, click on the little arrow in the upper right hand 
corner of the Practice of Peace field.
A new box pops up.
Go down to the bottom.
Way down. Click on the last word, it says "here".
The complete documentation of the event including first class pictures 
and a special feature "Harrisons 70th birthday party" in Berlin with 
really great pictures.
The first one showing ho in front of 15 Martini glasses being cooled 
down awaiting the spirits.
This is also one of the few chances you have to see him without a hat.

I think it is a good example of the stuff that will increasingly be 
available in this depository.
Go ahead, join it, record the events you have facilitated.
Greetings from stormy Berlin
See you in San Francisco next year!
mmp




Andrew Ballance wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I seem to remember an example of using Open Space to design something 
> big... was it a football stadium? I cannot remember, but it seemed like 
> a powerful case study and I was thinking it might come in handy soon. 
> Could someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Many thanks!
> Andrew
> 
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