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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Pannwitz,
Michael M [mailto:mmpanne@SNAFU.DE] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 08, 2002
9:11 AM<BR><B>To:</B> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
What makes OST work ???<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2 DEFAULT="SIZE"
POINTSIZE="10">--Original Message Text---<BR><B>From:</B> Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Date:</B> Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:50:45 -0400<BR><BR><BR>.... there has
been precious little research done of the sort you are proposing.
<BR><BR><BR>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>michael<FONT
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POINTSIZE="10"><BR><BR><BR><BR>Michael M Pannwitz<BR>boscop<BR>Draisweg 1<BR>12209 Berlin, Germany<BR>FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464<BR>www.michaelmpannwitz.de<BR><BR>An der E-Gruppe "openspacedeutsch" für deutschsprechende open space-PraktikerInnen interessiert? Enfach eine mail an mich.
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