[OSList] The Question

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

It is for every generation of practitioners to have this conversation. Don't go looking in the archives. Have a fresh crack at it. 

Chris

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> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> There are at least two important questions here:
> 
> 1) What are we talking about here when we talk about "Open Space"?
> 2) What are we referencing when we talk about "Open Space Technology"?
> 
> As for question 1, we may have walked into this before on the OSList. I'm not going to bother to search our archives - I'm trying not to work too hard. But this reminds me of Einstein's answer about what is space and what is time? They're what we measure with rulers and clocks. My Physics 101 teacher in college said this the very first day. Then we got over it. (I've can prove Einstein said it about clocks - http://www.askamathematician.com/2009/11/q-what-is-time/).
> 
> Now about question 2, my sense of this based on something the wonderful Chuni Li said at an Open Space Institute U.S. board retreat over a year ago. She questioned if it is just the one meeting format we're familiar with (sit in a circle, open a marketplace, do breakouts, and then come together for a closing circle) or if it is anything that supports the opening of space. (My apologies if I've corrupted the clarity of what she's said - but it was a big aha moment at the meeting for me.)
> 
> I'm sure there are other ways, other technology, that can "open space". At least if we don't get too hung up on the first question - though you got me what we could measure open space with - other than maybe the same thing I measure when I move with my two feet. An internal experience.
> 
>     Harold
> 
>> On 1/28/16 10:55 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote:
>> What is Open Space Technology?
> 
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