[OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space

Daniel Mezick via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Mon Aug 17 06:44:20 PDT 2015 

Greeting to All,

I like this thread. It is is very stimulating.

Regarding magic:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
-Arthur C Clarke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Regarding reductionism:
Reductionism does have it's purpose...
...it is useful when attempting to reduce what appears to be "magic" to 
"science."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism

I notice that Open Space appears to display many characteristics of magic.

Magic appears to have 2 basic meanings: (see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic)

  * Magic (paranormal)
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_%28paranormal%29>, the use of
    paranormal methods to manipulate natural forces
  * Magic (illusion)
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_%28illusion%29>, the art of
    appearing to perform supernatural feats


Reductionism is responsible for exponential growth in knowledge during 
the 20th century and beyond.

I often ruminate on the observed values of our group here. It's clear 
that magic is more highly-valued than science. Said another way, tacit 
knowledge is valued more highly than explicit knowledge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

If it were otherwise, then by now we are busy reducing things, using 
precise language to describe these reduced things, etc.


For example, consider any attempt here, to describe any part of any 
proposed definition, of ...Open Space.


Regarding attraction and repulsion:

/"On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des 
idées." -Victor Hugo/
Translation-literal: "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not 
resist the invasion of ideas."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

Alternative translations and paraphrased variants:

  * *One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.*
  * No one can resist an idea whose time has come.
  * *Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.*
  * Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come.
  * No army can stop an idea whose time has come.
  * Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
  * There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
    that is an idea whose time has come.


Daniel


On 8/17/15 8:09 AM, Harrison via OSList wrote:
> Harold, I do enjoy your fighting spirit... and my way is Michael's.
> Defending Open Space, in my experience is un-winnable and un-necessary.
> People who choose to imprison themselves will continue to do so, by whatever
> name, even in the name of freedom. And also, for some strange reason, Open
> Space seems to be "self-correcting." Folks gathering for what they thought
> was going to be Open Space suddenly find that the agenda has been set and
> conversations controlled. It may take them a few minutes, but somebody will
> doubtless say, "This sure ain't open space." What they do next can vary.
> Sometime they just stand up and proclaim the space open. The sponsors are
> usually a little put off, but good things do happen. At other times folk
> just walk. Sad but understandable, and a lesson has been learned. Seems to
> have worked that way for about 30 years.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:38 AM
> To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> Subject: Re: [OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
>
> Dear Harold and you other os workers around the world,
>
> here is what I can do every day as far as "easy" steps are concerned
>
> --- talk to someone today about what it means to a groups, an organísation
> and other similar critters to experience the force of selforganisation
> (pointing out that being in an OST event usually delivers)
> --- tell someone about a pretty good starting point to find out more about
> OST (books on the subject written by the fellow who stumbled on this and
> books by experienced os-practitioners on their work)
> --- calling a sponsor and have a chat on how things are going days or months
> or years after an os-event I facilitated
> --- contacting someone I think would benefit from and contribute to the
> spread of open space and invite her/him to come to Krakow (it would be great
> to have sponsors in Krakow)
>
>
> I guess there are many other "easy" steps for many of us.
>
> What I think belongs to the things not to do is what I have experienced in
> my former life as an OD consultant, supervisor, trainer: Creating standards,
> defining what it is and isnt, having a way of certifying
> os-workers/facilitators/supervisors/etc and creating institutions to watch
> over, copyright, etc. a  process that has been unfolding since the big bang,
> packaging it like a "new", "revolutionary", "highly effective", "etc"
> medicine... its a sure way down to ossification and formalisation...
>
> Greetings from a lovely morning in Berlin mmp
>
>
> On 17.08.2015 01:03, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
>> Hi Artur,
>>
>> Thanks for asking the Open Space Institute - U.S. to take some action.
>> Be it a YouTube channel or something else.
>>
>> The watering down of the true essence of Open Space, and then slapping
>> "Open Space" on it, confuses everyone about what we've been
>> *successfully* accomplishing for 30 years. It's not the first time
>> it's happened, nor will it be the last - but each time it happens -
>> there are
>> *innocent* people who get the wrong message about what is open space.
>>
>> As the OSI-US meeting is tomorrow - I will bring this to the agenda.
>> And as Harrison Owen said, we all are authorized to start
>> "institutes". A coherent group effort can make the best difference
>> here, starting from any of the other open space institutes, practice
> groups, stammtisch's, etc.
>> I'm glad for this conversation to continue as a starting point for
>> making some coordinated actions (like blog articles, twitter posts,
>> youtube videos, letters to the editor, etc.) The greater difference
>> Open Space makes - the more likely there will be this kind of
>> co-opting effect. But a smaller effort now can help others spread the
>> word when things like this happen.
>>
>> What easy steps can we take today, so that more people say in the face
>> of yucky things like the Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space:
>>
>>       "Hey - that's *not* an open space! You should try an authentic one!"
>>
>>       Harold
>>
>>
>> On 8/16/15 3:43 AM, Artur Silva via OSList wrote:
>>> Thanks for your answer, Hélène.
>>> I am afraid that when we talk or write we have to use words. The
>>> point
>>> is: shall we use "Open Space" without any further and correct
>>> clarification or shall we always clarify what is our understanding of
>>> what "Open Space" really is, in the context of OST?
>>> But I agree with you that it would be much easier - and it is not
>>> impossible - to use also images. For instance it would not be
>>> difficult to create a channel on YouTube for Open Space (that is,
>>> Open Space Technology) with many small films of successful OST
>>> events, which could also be displayed - or linked from - the pages of
>>> OS Institutes and practitioners around the world. I would suggest
>>> that the OSI-US take the lead on creating that channel and selecting
>>> the videos. I can provide the ones that were at the NING, I think In
>>> a Pt OSonOS (Pt from Portugal), two years ago, in one of the breakout
>>> sessions, there was a consultant lady, that was previously the HR
>>> Director of the Portuguese delegation of a larger pharmaceutical
>>> multinational. She told us that she was amazed because*she understood
>>> for the first time what Open Space really was*, even*if she had
>>> already attended some sessions organized for them by consulting
>>> companies as being "Open Space" but where the facilitators
>>> (?) were always intervening during all the session*. She finally
>>> understood, from her experience at the Pt OSonOS, that what those
>>> "facilitators" were doing was indeed closing the space for self
>>> organization.
>>> Have a nice Sunday
>>> Artur
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ---
>>> *From:* helene <h.menissier at orange.fr>
>>> *To:* Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com>; World wide Open Space
>>> Technology email list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, August 15, 2015 6:53 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
>>>
>>> Hi Artur and all of us!
>>> thank you Artur for your message!
>>> I've already got such observations from a O.S.facilitator in France
>>> who was upset about an official organisation (conseil régional) who
>>> wanted her to organize a "so-called" O.S. which in fact would be no
>>> O.S. (= not all of the problem as you told below, but with one big
>>> distorsion: the contents of the different workshops of the O.S. were
>>> decided before! and of course without the participants) aren't you
>>> aware about living in a world where only words exist "really"?
>>> so don't use words anymore!
>>> best wishes to everybody
>>>
>>> Le 15/08/2015 19:14, Artur Silva via OSList a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> The question, Paul, is that talking to this or that DG at EU about
>>>> the "need to open the space" is not enough. There is a strong need
>>>> to explain what Open Space means!
>>>>
>>>> In this case, they have used the name (Open Space), but nor the
>>>> procedures of an OST event, neither the spirit of Open Space.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Artur
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> ----
>>>> *From:* Paul Nunesdea <nunesdea at me.com> <mailto:nunesdea at me.com>
>>>> *To:* Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com>
>>>> <mailto:arturfsilva at yahoo.com>; World wide Open Space Technology
>>>> email list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>>>> <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>>>> *Sent:* Saturday, August 15, 2015 5:14 PM
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
>>>>
>>>> A blessing Artur!
>>>> I have engaged with one of EU DGs the DG Connect and talked
>>>> extensively about the need for opening space in their events.
>>>> Who knows they are talking to each other?
>>>> Best
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>  From my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15/8/2015, at 17:00, Artur Silva via OSList
>>>> <<mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>oslist at lists.openspacetech.o
>>>> rg>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Good morning Open Spacers:
>>>>> I have received from a friend this mail that announces a “Higher
>>>>> Education Open Space” organized by the European Union. He sent me
>>>>> this happy because EU was adopting Open Space and he expected me to
>>>>> be happy with that.
>>>>> Here is the mail I have received:
>>>>> *« Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space*
>>>>> https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/j3D5QLVQoIUZFJh6yH6JJUH9Aet
>>>>> BjX2-b5eXIibKlI2I4l7xIPb79R7TtiWkjyOjR3-59RSECf9oIXEilr7o_cGrtkdBOO
>>>>> 3hwE6oYtG7OndlbUQeFukscONjTK3vJhZB44LEe6HQYwR7j3fS6N2_F6U-KiSKDvAao
>>>>> P2jq8M=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e0ba59dcb487a8983ce
>>>>> da27d9/images/081b2de9-cf33-4708-8890-fb8f96ab7807.pngThe
>>>>> /Higher Education Open Space
>>>>> <http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a8
>>>>> 983ceda27d9&id=7c89775e7c&e=3bba19aa9f>/ (HEOS) 2015, following up
>>>>> the /Council's communiqué after Yerevan/
>>>>> <http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a89
>>>>> 83ceda27d9&id=e8bd74d07c&e=3bba19aa9f> will provide universities,
>>>>> students and stakeholder representatives an open, innovative and
>>>>> creative space for discussion on joint approaches to face these
>>>>> challenges. It also aims to contribute in a concrete way to the
>>>>> modernisation of higher education and to build alliances to
>>>>> reinforce the competitiveness and governance of European
>>>>> universities. It will allow for policy discussions and practical
>>>>> working sessions through two main events: a conference on the 3rd
>>>>> of November on how to reach 20% of student mobility by 2020 while
>>>>> maintaining the quality of mobility flows; an Open Space on the 4th-5th
> of November addressing topical issues of universities, students and
> stakeholders in the field of the modernisation agenda.
>>>>> Register until 30 September 2015!
>>>>> <http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a89
>>>>> 83ceda27d9&id=79c041547d&e=3bba19aa9f>
>>>>> /» /(end of the mail)//
>>>>> /If one looks to the Program (//
>>>>> <http://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference>/h
>>>>> ttp://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference/)
>>>>> one finds the Agenda below (after my signature)./ /There are a lot
>>>>> of speakers all the time!!! But even the sessions that could be
>>>>> "open" are like this: /
>>>>> /1) The session on /*”Disruptive innovation in the field of student
>>>>> mobility”**has 4 experts speaking about it (no students, as far as
>>>>> I can see)*
>>>>> *2) The session of **“Group Discussion” (14:00 - 15:00) **has **4
>>>>> predefined subjects**:* ·Funding strategies to increase exchanges
>>>>> ·Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1 year abroad ·Ad-hoc partnerships
>>>>> and international consortia ·The increasing importance of QA and
>>>>> recognition of credits
>>>>>
>>>>> /*3) The*/*Round-table (15:30 - 17:00) **has 2
>>>>> speakers****(Profs).***
>>>>> **
>>>>> *So my questions are:*
>>>>> *-**Is this Open Space?***
>>>>> *-**What is the concept of "Open Space" of the European Union?***
>>>>> *-**Did they get that name (Open Space) from OST facilitators from
>>>>> Europe or it was only the fact that “Open” is cool (and “Closed” is
>>>>> awful) and they don’t even know what OST is?***
>>>>> **
>>>>> *I would like to have other opinions, especially from European
>>>>> people more close to the center of Europe (somewhere in the line
>>>>> from Brussels to Berlin…)* *Regards and have a nice week end*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *Artur*
>>>>> *(From Portugal, in the Southwest of Europe - or is it in the North
>>>>> of Africa? See the map bellow...)*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *----------------*
>>>>> /*Attachment 1 */
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        Agenda
>>>>>
>>>>> *09:00 - 09:30: Arrival and registration*
>>>>> *09:30 - 10:30: Opening session*
>>>>> ·Opening speech
>>>>> ·Keynote speaker on the renewed framework of ET 2020
>>>>> Speaker: Representative of the European Commission, Directorate
>>>>> Education, Audiovisual and Culture ·The challenges of universities
>>>>> to maintain quality in mobility while intensifying their mobility
>>>>> flows
>>>>> Speaker: Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo, President of the European
>>>>> University Foundation ·The students’ perspective on the challenge
>>>>> of increasing mobility
>>>>> Speaker: Safi Sabuni, President of the Erasmus Student Network
>>>>> *10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break*
>>>>> *11:00 - 12:30: Disruptive innovation in the field of student
>>>>> mobility* ·The automatic recognition of studies abroad
>>>>> Speaker: Prof. Christoph Ehmann, Secretary-General of the European
>>>>> University Foundation ·The Erasmus Without Papers network
>>>>> Speaker: Valère Meus, International Relations Expert of the Ghent
>>>>> University ·Solving the challenge of fair grade conversion
>>>>> Speaker: Dr. Anthony Vickers, Bologna Expert, University of Essex
>>>>> ·Towards 100% of student mobility
>>>>> Speaker: Prof. Éric Tschirhart, Vice-President of the University of
>>>>> Luxembourg
>>>>> *12:30 - 14:00: Lunch*
>>>>> *14:00 - 15:00: Group discussions*
>>>>> *Increasing the quantity and quality of student mobility* ·Funding
>>>>> strategies to increase exchanges ·Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1
>>>>> year abroad ·Ad-hoc partnerships and international consortia ·The
>>>>> increasing importance of QA and recognition of credits
>>>>> *15:00 - 15:30: Coffee break*
>>>>> *15:30 - 17:00: Round-table*
>>>>> *How universities can best reach 20% of student mobility and its
>>>>> impact on society* ·Prof. Georg Winckler, former Rector of the
>>>>> University of Vienna and former President of the EUA ·Prof. Éric
>>>>> Froment, former President of the University Lumière Lyon
>>>>> 2 and former President of the EUA
>>>>> *17:00 - 17:30: Closing session*
>>>>> *Attachment 2 *
>>>>> Map – Portugal in the world (and Azores as part of Portugal)…
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.google.pt/search?q=world+map+portugal&biw=1312&bih=921
>>>>> &tbm=isch&imgil=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%253BCFLWhrA_yxek_M%253Bhttp%252
>>>>> 53A%25252F%25252Fwww.hasslberger.com%25252Fterceira%25252Fpages%252
>>>>> 52Fmap-terceira.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%252CCFL
>>>>> WhrA_yxek_M%252C_&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D#imgrc=C2NUEH
>>>>> JZ0N389M%3A&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D>https://www.google
>>>>> .pt/search?q=world+map+portugal&biw=1312&bih=921&tbm=isch&imgil=C2N
>>>>> UEHJ
>>>>> Z0N389M%2
>>>>> 53A%253BCFLWhrA_yxek_M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.hasslberger
>>>>> .com%25252Fterceira%25252Fpages%25252Fmap-terceira.html&source=iu&p
>>>>> f=m&fir=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%252CCFLWhrA_yxek_M%252C_&usg=__5shYsIl1
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>>>>> kQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D
>>>>>
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