[OSList] Open Space undermined?
Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
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Fri Dec 2 02:11:09 PST 2016
Dear Karl,
I was wondering about humans loving repeating patterns.
My observation is that children do insist on repeating patterns.
When I read to my kids and now to my grandkids from books that they are
familiar with, I often alter a sentence or add one. Without exception
they notice and exclaim "Nein, Opa, das steht da nicht!"
With adults I wonder about us "loving" repeating patterns. I am thinking
of such stuff as the patterns of holidays or the agenda in the church
worship or the way the table is set for a birthday or the kind of food
served on special occasions (thanksgiving...). Of course, these are
repeating patterns. And a deviance can split families...
To me it seems to be the kinds of patterns (ritual, agendas, cultural
stuff,...) that give us "security" "belonging" "identity" but also keep
us in our "bubbles".
So, looking at the emotional responses of myself I find them, the
responses, completely out of logic, especially looking at the tenacity
defending them.
In my context here in Berlin with many refugees populating neighborhoods
a very occasional appearance of a burka gets folks ferociously upset.
Its like an attack on our bubble.
(there are millions of muslims living in Germany but fewer than 1000
wear a burka, the kind that covers everything except the eyes).
So my take on this is that children do love patterns and us adults need
them to feel secure in our bubbles.
Just this minute two of the refugee girls that have adopted our house
and garden for their School after school activities are demonstrating
how easy it is for them to step out of their bubble in that they adapt
themselves to a really foreign new environment.
Lets watch the kids.
Greetings from Berlin on a sunny Dezember day thinking of the mans
birthday and surely getting into the pattern of having a martini
cocktail with definitely only a tinge of martini in the drink
mmp
Am 02.12.2016 um 10:36 schrieb Royle, Karl via OSList:
> I agree,
>
> More of a pattern than a structure and humans do love repeating
> patterns.. :-)
>
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> To: Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space undermined?
>
> I am surprised that the author of this research considers that
> unconferences are characterized by a “distinct lack of structure”!
> OST has a very clear and precise structure; it may be minimal but it is
> exquisitely minimal which is why it is so powerful and effective.
> Reminds me of when I was a kid and my music teacher considered that jazz
> was not “real music" 😀
>
> Henri
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> On Dec 1, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Birgitt Williams via OSList
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> wrote:
>
> Hi Andi,
> source paper would be very much appreciated. Thank you for digging to
> find it and for sharing this. I very much hope she cites OST particularly.
> Warmly,
> Birgitt
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:12 PM Andi Roberts via OSList
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> wrote:
>
> The following popped up on an email today at a University I work
> with and I thought that the research might be of interest to this
> group. I am unable to attend the session, due to prior work
> commitments, but will try and dig up the source paper.
>
> Unstructured Meeting Organisation in Open Source Communities
>
> Professor Emma Bell, Professor of Management and Organisation
> Studies, Keele University, will be presenting at the next DPO
> seminar on Wednesday, 7 December, at 14:00, in Meeting Rooms 3 - 4
> in the Michael Young Building.
>
> *Abstract:*
>
> In this paper we focus on the organisation of ‘unconferences’, an
> umbrella term that refers to a range of off-site meeting formats
> where there an explicit attempt to break down social hierarchies and
> develop organic forms of organization (Burns and Stalker, 1961).
> Also referred to as ‘camps’, unconferences have no pre-set agenda,
> are designed to be participant driven (Wolf et al., 2011), and are
> characterised by a ‘distinct lack of structure’ (Boule, 2011: 17).
> Drawing on a qualitative study of unconferences aimed at managers
> and management consultants, we assess the extent to which
> unconferencing enables the hierarchical power relations that
> characterise conventional off-site meeting organisation to be
> overcome (Bell and King, 2010; Ford and Harding, 2008). We find
> that unconferences go some way towards addressing interactional and
> performative dynamics that contribute towards unequal participation
> and exclusion in off-site meeting encounters. However, our analysis
> also highlights the powerful behavioural norms and group dynamics
> associated with off-site meetings which can result in these attempts
> at openness and sharing being undermined.
>
>
> Cheers, Andi Roberts
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