[OSList] The Question

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Slightly OT but when I was doing Physics 101 in 1969 we were specifically NOT allowed to watch the moon landing on TV BECAUSE WE HAD TO DO A PHYSICS TUTORIAL. I stayed at home and watched it anyway...

 

Another lecturer gave a great definition of the three laws of thermodynamics:

Law 1: You can’t win

Law 2:You can’t even get close

Law 3: The closer you get the harder it becomes

 

Thoughts from a rainy day in Melbourne Australia

David

 

From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Chris Corrigan via OSList
Sent: Friday, 29 January 2016 10:06 AM
To: Harold Shinsato; World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] The Question

 

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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