[OSList] Interdisciplinary Research dreaming

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

Hi Michael. We've had several OS gatherings to bring together the adult
midcareer graduate students in the doctoral program in Transformative
Inquiry at CIIS in San Francisco.

It's called a 'transdisciplinary' program and a rich mix of exchanges are
always enjoyed. Collaborations including collaborative inquiry
dissertations have occasionally begun.

Any stories about university faculty researchers gathering in this way
would be inspiring to read!

Jeff Aitken
Near San Francisco



On Oct 5, 2015 7:42 PM, "Michael Wood via OSList" <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> A few years ago I was invited by a learning and development company to
> facilitate a weekend of Open Space for the whole company, on the question
> of 'New Business Development ideas for..'x' company'.
>
> It was an incredibly creative and fun weekend in which many ideas were
> floated and talked about. Towards the end, one or two key ideas distilled
> out, which the group was willing to put further time into and which the
> company directors thoughts was a viable business proposition to invest more
> time in. The idea went on to make millions of dollars for the company. The
> directors were pretty happy about the return on investment from taking
> their entire staff away for two days.
>
> What would happen if someone in a university were to sponsor an
> interdisciplinary dreaming day on 'new research possibilities', which
> enabled people to float out their wackiest and most exciting emergent ideas
> (one's which perhaps are just a 'flicker')  - and allow the miracle of self
> organisation to enable cross disciplinary conversation to occur (poets
> asking questions of engineers (and visa versa); business school leaders
> asking questions of marine biologists (and visa versa).
>
> Is anyone aware of this having happened in any university in the world? If
> so, can you refer me to the person who organised it or facilitated it. I've
> love to have a conversation with them.
>
>
> Michael Wood
>
> Univerisity of Western Australia
>
>
>  michael.wood at uwa.edu.au
>
>
>
>
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