[OSList] Fwd: Fwd: Re: How big is a circle with 300 people?

Tue Jun 9 00:41:08 PDT 2015

Dear Anna,

looking at the website of Cecilia Soriano and Martin Castro of Argentina 
and their announcement of a one-day OPEN SPACE  something (its in 
Spanish) in Bogota on July 10th I saw this 2-minute Video Evento (scroll 
down a bit)
> http://www.conversacionesparatodos.com/evento/open-space-technology/291

It shows very nicely how they arranged circles of chairs in a narrow 
space, having a perfect one in the center and then adding half circles 
on two sides of the central circle... something I tried to describe in 
my mail below.
The video shows	an entire os event in 2 minutes. Jean-Philippe Poupard 
of formapart in France facilitated.

Cheers
mmp

On 08.06.2015 23:24, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
> Dear Anna,
>
> forgot to mention the book "Meine open space Praxis, its in German, so
> this might be of help to you. In fact, it contains loads of pictures,
> several about circles. The one on page 101 shows the set up of
> concentric circles for an event with about 350  people in Magdeburg....
> the one on the next page the Sevilla event with about 300 imams and
> rabbies.
> The book is available here (also as an ebook where the pictures can be
> zoomed etc.)
>
>> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Meine-open-space-Praxis-E-Book
>> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Meine-open-space-Praxis
>
>
> I have attached a pair of pictures showing the circle set up without
> people and the same filled with people... the presence of people does
> not change the geometry but the atmosphere. And just that is often
> commented on: Never saw this room used this way, its inspiring (or other
> such adjectives).
>
> Often, rooms are not circular but long rectangulars. Therefore, you cant
> have the outer circle circular but almost always the inner circle. The
> experiment with 300 attending works well with a diameter of 10 meters
> for the inner circle allowing 35 to 50 chairs in the inner circle. One
> might get the 2nd circle also to be perfect, and even the third and in
> very large rooms all 7 or 13. But often the inner plus one and perhaps
> two fill the width of the room. The additionally needed "circles" are
> then half circles added to the "perfect" circles in the length of the
> room (the whole thing than looks like an oval but with at least one
> perfect circle in the middle).
>
> Now, your precise question to the radius of the circle has a number of
> variables. I therefore made it a prerequisite to see the room before the
> event and actually would arrange a small segment (like  a pizza slice)
> using the chairs available to get a specific picture (chairs do vary in
> width and depth in such a way that with a crowd of 300 sitting in lets
> say 7 concentric circles will get you various radiuses or diameters for
> the whole arrangement).
>
> As far as the additional details of the entire set up is concerned I
> always insisted that everything is handcrafted (like the  facts of life,
> the law, the critters, the admonition, the directional signs, the
> bulletin board, the news wall, the overall schedule....) to look not
> only unique each time but also signaled: everyone can do this with
> simple means everywhere. And all this stuff is best done on the premises
> involving the whole team getting into the spirit of the event...
>
> Ok, now I see you on page 95 doing one of your inimitable bumble bees...
>
>
> Take care and see you (and every one else reading this at the WOSonOS in
> Krakow, here is the link to the details
>> http://www.wosonos.com/
>
> hugs
> mmp
>
>
> On 07.06.2015 23:18, Anna Caroline Türk via OSList wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Please help me do the math: How is the radius of concentric circles with
>> 300 participants?
>> How many rows do you think it will be?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> much Love
>> Anna Caroline
>>
>>
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