A new topic and request

[Michael Herman]

when i did this same experimenting, katia, i got the same  results as you.
5 chairs between aisles is about enough.  also, i found that making the rows
farther apart than usual theater setting helped increase that sense of
"exposure" in the back rows.

one other little thing... i always try to make the *back* row the one that
is complete circle, and let the front rows be added into the circle, rather
than making a front row, and then sort of filling out little wings into
corners.  that way, *everybody* is really *inside* the circle, rather than
gathered around it.

m

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Katia <katia at propellor.be> wrote:

>  I opened space last summer for a group of 350. My colleague and I spent
> quite some time before we found a good way of arranging the circle. To
> test our ideas, we actually role-played sitting on the back row, and feeling
> if we were compelled contribute. Some settings felt better (more open) than
> others.
>
>
>
> To my surprise, it didn’t matter so much to have one more row of chairs
> between me and the center. But what did make a difference, was whether I
> would have to pass a lot of people next to me, before I can enter the
> center.
>
>
>
> We finally made four concentric circles. We made sure that people could
> easily walk to the center of the space, wherever they sat. So to achieve
> that, we left a corridor every 5th chair (so you get blocks of 4 rows x 5
> chairs).
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> Enjoy!
>
> Katia
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