[OSList] Interdisciplinary Research dreaming

[Harrison Owen via OSList]

Michael ... I think it is a superb idea, and to the best of my knowledge, it
has never been done. But I pretty sure there isn't a university on the
planet that would have the guts to try it. I would love to be proved wrong,
but in the meantime it seems to me that every person in the world has a
superb opportunity. At a time of their choosing, and a place of their
comfort, they may open the space for sharing and caring about something of
importance. I think that is called Learning. Were universities to do more of
it...

Harrison

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Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 10:42 PM
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Subject: [OSList] Interdisciplinary Research dreaming

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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