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<B>From:</B> Harrison Owen<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:50:45 -0400<BR>
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.... there has been precious little research done of the sort you are proposing. <BR>
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Dear Harrison,<BR>
there have been 5 or 6 investigators at open space-projects that I have facilitated. All of them have written their mastersthesis or something like that (Diplomarbeit its called in German). Two of them conducted intensive interviews along the lines that Kerry Napuk is suggesting...during the event and at the follow up meetings. There has been at least one sociologist that did an intensive study on open space and the practise and theory of the marketplace, another researcher has done extensive work on open space as an investigation tool in scientific investigations, another on the use of open space in networking efforts. <BR>
I certainly know just of a small slice of these investigations in Germany and would assume that there are dozends of such efforts completed and in progress.<BR>
All of this is in German and I think some of the more theory-interested colleagues from Austria/Switzerland/Germany that are also on this list like Susanne Weber, Erich Kolenaty, Bernd Weber, Carol Maleh, Paul Krummenacher, etc. could provide more information.<BR>
So its perhaps still precious little in the US but quite a bit in the German speaking realm.<BR>
Greetings from Berlin with much respect for your "lazy person approach"<BR>
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