[OSList] Interdisciplinary Research dreaming

[Lucas Cioffi via OSList]

Hello Michael,

I've been to several Startup Weekend <http://startupweekend.org/> events
where the purpose is to launch a demo of product or to explore the market
for a particular idea within the timeframe of one weekend.  Participants
stand up and propose topics and then other participants sign up to join
that team.

The teams self-organize but it feels more forced and contrived than a
regular open space, because each team is scheduled by the organizers to
speak with a panel of experts at regular intervals throughout the weekend.
I want to at least but Startup Weekend on your radar, because they have
these kind of events in many countries.

I think the idea you're speaking about is very promising, and I'd love to
see it in action.

Lucas Cioffi
Founder, QiqoChat.com
Charlottesville, VA
Mobile: 917-528-1831

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael Wood via OSList
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 10:42 PM
> To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> 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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