[OSList] the serendipity machine

[Paul Nunesdea]

Hi Gerardo,

I am so glad you share this, because I realise we have both been in the same meeting!  We shared the taxi after dinner on Friday, remember? 

We also talked a lot about OST during the whole of this very successful IAF Mini conference. HO discovery is quite addictive once you get to experience it, and its subsequent ideas and books are becoming well known among the ones who share 'group facilitation' as a profession. I believe that OST is probably the ultimate/primal form of Group Facilitation - the one that relies in openness as a powerful drive for individual motivation and in group self organisation. Such ingredients require minimal intervention on our part, the less the better...

I also really liked the visit to Seats2Meat in Utrecht and the presentation from Vicent and subsequent talk in the closing session about "Facilitation 3.0" - Is OST part of that? Then the seeds of society 3.0 have at least the age of the whole OST movement, this is not something 'brand new' just invented. 

Yet I have the Serendipity book in the very first page, I was about to start reading it when I read your e-mail and just replied here because I have not left with same idea about this company - Seats2Meet.

Their business model seems to me like having a nice welcoming pub, where you get the drinks for free (sitting space) but get charged anytime you need to go to the toilets (hire a private meeting room).

However I will be reading the book, I might change my impression. I would be glad to read more comments from anyone else that attended this IAF conference and is also in this list.

Best
Paul



From my iPad

On 17/09/2013, at 17:03, gerardo de luzenberger <xge at loci.it> wrote:

> I'm just back from the netherlands, where I have visited an interesting company - it's called seats2meet. They set up a network of business centers that offer physical coworking, office and meeting spaces. They describe their business model as a serendipity machine in a booklet you can download here http://theserendipitymachine.com/
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> What is amazing is that they host freely coworkers (including wifi, coffee and food). IN exchange they ask them to share their knowledges and skills with others. They do this using a software platform they call "the third" space. 
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> Even if they never quoted open space their approach is really tuned with it. And I think that Open Space can be also considered to some extent as a serendipity machine, a "third" space that opens to unexpected conversations and knowledge exchange.
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